Grasshoppermind

Phillip Torrone posted this excellent HOWTO article on geotagging today. Nice work, easy to follow.
HOW TO geotag del.icio.us bookmarks
“Awhile back we showed you how to annotate your photos with the location they were taken and then display them in Google Earth. But, photos aren’t the only thing you can tag with location coordinates- you can also tag and view bookmarks from del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site. Once you tag them, you can then view in Google Earth and do a virtual tour and more! “

From Feedmap.net…

“Using FeedMap you can geo-code your blog, browse already geo-coded blogs and search for blogs. Once geo-coded, you can get your own BlogMap location using a simple url that allows you to network with your local bloggers and much more!”
Just make sure you get your location right. I ended up in the North Sea!

If your connection devices can be tracked, would you want to be tracked?
Extremetech have an interesting article on some of the privacy issues.

Location based information is being swiftly taken up by the early adopters. Bloggers and Flickr users have been geotagging their posts and pictures at a rapid rate. There are a wide variety of projects and hacks that are offering some great combinations of text, map and graphical information. Some of these will undoubtedly attract VC attention and you can guarantee the existing search players will not be asleep at the wheel.

Very soon you can expect to see advanced search facilities allowing you to narrow your search to within specific geographical locations, and to output the results to map or Earth based systems. Later you will see map based interfaces to search engines.

One of the most interesting resources I have found so far on this subject is the Blog by Rev Dan Catt. The conference proceedings of Where 2.0 are definitely worth taking a look at as well. (although you will need a LOT of time to make it through all the articles!)

So people are being warned off taking photographs in certain parts of New York. This is going to be so difficult to enforce!
Why?
- You can Use Google Earth to fly through the streets of New York.
- People are geotagging photographs and posting them on flickr.
- Google Earth lets you use Keyhole (KML) files to share your favorite locations with others.
So put this together and what have you got? You get the geolocated picture?

Simple, short and inspirational stuff from Steve Jobs.
In a recent address Steve Jobs commented on three things: Connecting the dots. Love & loss. Death.

Geotagging Links: More on this later, but for now the grasshopper is gathering…
FeedMap = Blogs + Maps.
Using FeedMap you can geo-code your blog, browse already geo-coded blogs and search for blogs. Once geo-coded, you can get your own BlogMap location using a simple url that allows you to network with your local bloggers and much more!

Geotagging Web Pages and RSS Feeds By Andrew Turner on Tue, 2005-01-11 00:00.

Providing geographic metadata in Web sites and syndicated feeds can provide users with the ability to search easily for services and articles based on location and proximity.

Googling Geotagging

Who’s Blogging about geotagging

http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~hypertxt/decisions.html

Grasshopper minds instictively understand the 80/20 rule.

So 20% of your effort gives 80% of the results, but the remaining 20% of results takes the last 80% of effort. So that’s why we’re not finishers!
Never mind, as Stafford Beer puts it, “If it works, it’s out of date”.

allwords have it as:
grasshopper mind - noun

1. A mind that is unable to concentrate on any one subject for long.

What are the symptoms? Starting things one never finishes? Jumping from one thing to another? Generally speaking there is a lot of negativity surrounding the concept of the “grasshopper mind”. If you can find some positives, then please let me know. It can’t all be bad? can it?