Inspired by gps tracklogs’s GPS data search tool I set up this morning a customized search engine based on Google’s Co-op service called Geo Blog Search. It includes and searches every geo related blog I could find so far, but is still open for contribution, meaning that if you know a site which isn’t yet included, you can mark and add it to the Geo Blog Search (never tried this but it can’t be so difficult to figure out how it works).
The whole thing was pretty straightforward and can serve well if you want to dig out some topics the “geoblogosphere” was talking about.
Additionally I created a little search extension in order to access the customized search directly from the browser’s search bar. If you’re reading this in Firefox 2 or Internet Explorer 7 you should now see the option Add “Geo Blog Search” in your search engine drop down list.
In order to avoid post duplicates I cleaned up geoblogger.eu and removed all feeds which are already aggregated by planet geospatial. So geoblogger.eu should now be a nice add-on to planet geospatial, for people interested in mainly non-english geoblogs.
As you may have noticed, or not, there is a new top level domain available: .eu.
I got caught by the landrush two weeks ago and registered 2 new domains too.
If I didn’t mess up with my redirects you should see the first one above in your browser’s URL bar: spanring.eu. It’ll be my new main domain name for this site. During Easter holidays I found the time to change my server configurations and update DNS, etc. If you have any bookmark or subscription please change the URL to spanring.eu. Well, the old one, spanring.name, still works and will do so for at least another year. Probably even longer, because there is a good chance that I’ll keep this domain too.
The second domain I bought was geoblogger.eu:
geoblogger.eu is an aggregation of GIS, cartography or “neogeography” weblogs based in Europe or in any other way Europe related. The aim is not to exclude the rest of the world but to focus on the European scene and to give a general overview about people, organisations or topics of interest in this region. [more]
The main idea behind geoblogger.eu was quite simple: publish and share geo related parts of my reading list. Maybe somebody else finds this site and links useful or, even better, has some recommendations on further weblogs to include. If so, feel free to send an email to ask[at]geoblogger.eu.
I’m well aware about geobloggers.com, the former Flickr Google maps geotagging mashup, but geoblogger.eu just says in one word what this site should be about. If there is any problem in terms of registered name or something, please let me know.
The newsfeed on geoblogger.eu isn’t working properly. I’ll try to fix it within the next few days.