I now have FireEagle built into my blogging software. Pretty cool, no? I'm working on building it so that my blog posts will have my geographical location built in (if I'm not at home, that is). This is a sample post just to test the storage of this information. I'm not actually in Paris (although it'd be jolly nice if I was). 
2008.04.24
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Geo blog post 2008-04-24T14:19:54Z
Once again with the renegade master 2008-04-24T14:25:55Z
Almost works. Made a silly mistake (one of those not reading the documentation mistakes).
Paris, France
Co-ordinates test 2008-04-24T14:38:35Z
I'm still not in Paris, but I am pretending to my software to be so. If it all works, we should be able to get the website and the feed pushing out my geolocation in no time at all.
Paris, France
FireEagle: it knows where I blog 2008-04-24T15:43:41Z
Today, I've been working on hooking up Fire Eagle to my blog. I've got it doing some fairly smart things. First of all, when I post on my blog, I now have a 'Location' field in the form so that I can bash in a new location. This is just simple HTML with a bit of PHP back-end to handle updating Fire Eagle with my new location. Fire Eagle is one of those fantastic things that gets better the more you use it. And having it in my blogging software means I end up using it all over the place.
But there's more. When I post to my blog - whether it's through the web-based interface, or through an XML-RPC client, my server will ask Fire Eagle where I am. If I'm not at home, it stores the name, latitude and longitude of where I am in the XML files that holds my blog content (SQL? Pfft!). This is then published on my blog in the geo microformat. It looks ugly at the moment, but this evening I'll be tidying up the stylesheet. I'll also be adding it to the RSS 2.0 feed I publish (yes, I use RSS 2.0 not Atom, because Atom requires that posts have titles - and, as Twitter proves, not all posts have titles) using GeoRSS.
Does your blog know where you are?
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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org
Currently in:
East Sussex, England
Usually in:
East Sussex,
United Kingdom
I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.
I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.
Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.
I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.
