The title says it all. I was looking for a way to aggregate (collect) bookmarks (…favorites…posts) on del.icio.us that are most relevant to location scouting.

Conventional wisdom would seem to dictate that a search of tags such as “location scout” would be in order.

Also the mashup I found to aggregate the bookmarks has a 4-tag limit (more about this shortly), so, given the parameters, the syntaxes above dovetailed into the plan pretty smoothly.

Tag searching using the del.icio.us website interface is limited to just one tag. I needed to find a way to search del.icio.us using multiple tags at once.

Enter Yahoo Pipes. Pipes is a recent “whatsit?” (to me, anyway …all I know is it will “do stuff” using various web2.0 features such as accessing and interfacing with various API’s, databases and such and that there has been a good deal of chatter in the tech circles lately about Pipes. It does look a little like Ning, but I haven’t had a chance to play with Pipes at all other than this little side-project. (BTW some people think I am a bit of a techy, but it’s not true; real techies are always able to see that I am just someone who knows enough to be annoying and dangerous- just ask my web host

In a nutshell, “someone” (one Derek Van Vliet, actually…) figured out how search del.icio.us using 4 tags simultaneously as well as aggregating the results. The results are effective because they consist of posts that only had to use at least *one* of the tags as opposed to a heavily filtered list including only posts having to use all the tags, the former seeming to be the default of many database searches. Yet, still, the Pipe seemed to handle filtering out “noise” results such as “boy scout” or “store location”, etc. very well.

…which I renamed slightly to reflect the manner in which I am using the pipe, which is ok because all this kind of stuff in this neck of cyberspace is pretty open-source and in fact experimentation is generally encouraged.

Once I ran the Pipe and had my results (a web page exportable as an rss xml feed, of course like any good web2.0 app should…)

I took the feed link and made a Feedburner feed. I like Feedburner because there are so many additional features available that can be used on raw rss feeds. If you have worked with Feedburner much at all, you’ll know what I am talking about.

While I was setting up the Feedburner feed, I set up a SpringWidget, which is the box below and which is used to display the feed here on this website.

What? of course, these are all free web services. (Altho, not provided by me)

Update I also used the tags “locationscouting“, “location+scouting“, “location-scouting” and “location_scouting” on del.icio.us Tag Masher – 4 Tags Pipe.

Feedburner Feed made from Derek’s Pipe w/ tags applied:

del.icio.us TagMasher – Location Scouting

• Scouting NY | Monday, 28 June 2010, 5:02 pm
  
• Scouting NY | Thursday, 17 June 2010, 8:52 pm
  
• Dark Roasted Blend: Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites | Sunday, 6 June 2010, 10:38 pm
  

Yahoo Feed of my clone:

del.icio.us Tag Masher – 4 Tags – location scout

• Location Solutions South West :: Beach (302) | Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 9:38 am
  
• deCondo Theme Demo | Monday, 24 May 2010, 2:50 pm
  
• Loc – Cologne | Locationscout & Locationmanager in Köln | Monday, 10 May 2010, 5:26 pm
  

Cloned del.icio.us Tag Masher – 4 Tags with tags locationscouting, location+scouting, location-scouting, location_scouting Grazr Widget

Update 3/21/08 | I cloned it! I felt a lot less intimidated by THE PIPE this time out so I just went in there with a hammer and a wrench … removed (from this post) …SpringWidget, added (to this post) …original Pipe note(s), my clone / feed URL, added map | original timestamp: April 07, 2007 @ 14:29

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location scout linkit (locationscout.ning.com):

New York City and Northeast US Film Offices

misc location scouting and film production resources

long(er) version:

I “started an app” (well, actually I “cloned” Amy’s Robot: Linkit) on ning.com, which is a Web 2.0 /php/html/ajax (with rails in the wings) mashup (which probably means nothing to you)…

But I digress: whats very kewl about ning.com is you get to mashup their mashups! …and you dont have to be a programmer to achieve some considerable productivity in the process~ even kewler is, if you *do* know anything about writing code, the source for all their applications (“apps”) is available right on the site in true open-source fashion. More info here (if you’re the technically inclined type).

It took me about an hour to create locationscout linkit, it’s just links to most of the film offices and some of the production resources I call on fairly regularly, but since locationscout linkit is based on social bookmarking, folksonomy and tags (in the old days I think it was called “collaboration” I hope others will contribute their own bits of location scouting information so we can all become more productive.

My Network Creator Profile on Ning

My Developer Profile on Ning

related content on this site about Locationscout Linkit

updated 3/13/08 added related content / feed / ning profiles
original timestamp: May 27, 2006 @ 17:58

-RH

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If you are a website author, there is nothing more infuriating than finding big chunks or the entirety of your copyrighted content scraped, iframed or cut and pasted somewhere on the internet other than your own site.

Lorelle Van Fossen has written an informative article with some potentially effective suggestions for fighting online content infringements. A good portion of her article focuses on WordPress and establishing the various roles WordPress plays in its dual roles as both a blog host and open-source software provider and the differences of each as they might apply to WordPress’s ability / appropriateness (or not) to intervene with regard to content theft claims – all information which is likely of interest and use to many people in light of the fact that WordPress is extremely popular in general; at the same time much of what she has written should be easily translatable and applicable to many other authoring platforms as well.

It is important to know the difference between fair use and plagiarism and inherent vagaries associated with same. Lorrelle touches on these areas and offers related posts from the past from her long running and prolific blog as well as an abundance of helpful external links.

In a perfect world, you or I would not be troubled by content theft annoyances but we do, in fact live in a real world, so with that in mind, Lorelle’s article is a pretty good resource.

Who is Lorelle?

“There are many sides to Lorelle VanFossen. One is a public speaker, instructor, writer, and consultant on web writing, web design, and blogging, especially working with WordPress.”

…read more…

Lorelle on WordPress

• Blog Struggles: The Online Blogging Diary Begins | Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 4:15 am
  …I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been c. […]
• One Minute with Lorelle: Planning Your Blog | Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 8:10 pm
  In this first of a new series of articles, I’m starting “A Minute with Lorelle.” These one minute videos and articles will take you through the. […]
• Annual Holiday Marathon: Best Ho, Wealth, Tech, Holiday Lights via Web, and Holiday Joy | Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 7:18 am
  Join me and the rest of the Bitwire Media crew for too much fun this Saturday, December 19, 2009, for the annual Holiday Marathon from 6AM to 6PM PST.. […]

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“Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, just secured a $29.5 million B round of financing. Congrats to Matt, Toni, and everyone else at Automattic. $29.5 million is a monster round, considering that Automattic has so far grown by sipping daintily on a $1.2 million first round secured in 2006. I can’t wait to see what is next. Really interesting to me is that with this round the New York Times joins their investors. One word for that: adaptation. The line between old media and new media blurs further.”

…read more…

Matt: Act Two

“You’ve probably seen the news on GigaOM, Automattic has raised a new “series B” round of funding. We’re entering what I consider Act II of the Automattic story. I’ll talk about where we’re going, but first some history.”

…read the rest…

My favorite open-source website software just got a booster shot

Way to go, guys – keep em honest and keep on truckin’!

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