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GeoURL: We Know Where You Live, Work and Blog!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-other-stuff-too dept.

hrbrmstr writes "GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. Many potential 'location-based services' can spring from this if the database gets big enough. The site has an easy process for maintaining your entries. And can even generate RSS feeds for a given geographical area."

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  1. Isn't anyone else getting sick of ... by Kombat · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ... the seemingly instant appearance and remarkably quick subsequent overuse of the trendy new geek buzzword "blog?" I mean, it was even thrown into the subject and description of this story twice, and it's not even relevant! All of a sudden, it seems you're not cool unless you've got a blog, and you're even LESS cool if you don't even know what it means.

    Nevermind that the word itself has been appropriated as if it were brand new, and that the geeks using it are apparently ignorant to the fact that it's not even a new word. It was a collectible toy back in the 90's. Remember those stupid little coloured disks with the characters on them, that kids were trading in the playgrounds?

    I don't know why it bugs me so much, but it does. Every time I see the word, I just want to slap the person using it. It seems to objectify everything that the Linux community professes to abhor. Trendy buzzwords with no substance, just for the sake of inclusion in an elite subculture that is completely manufactured simply for the sole purpose of being an elite subculture.

    I mean really... how is a blog any different than any other web page? When I load up a page, how can I tell whether it's a blog or just a normal webpage. You can't! It's all in how the page was created. So why don't people say "I've got to get home, I've got some FrontPaging to do."? Because up until now, no one thought it was cool to adopt such a shameless, blatant buzzword in a community such as ours.

    The sooner this idiotic "blogging" craze dies, the better, IMHO.

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  2. damn... by Tom2K2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why did I even try clicking on the link this early in the game? I'll have to wait till tomorrow after the /.'ing is over.... Slashdot.org: Yesterdays News, Today! And Todays news Tomorrow...