“WriteToMyBlog is a free web based word processor for your blog. Create post entries for your blog from right here, completely free, no membership required; can post to multiple blogs simultaneously, manage your posts; works with all major blog programs and is easy-peasy!”

…go there…

Doesn’t have a whole lot to do directly with location scouting, but looks incredibly useful as a writing tool.

If you are a busy location scout but also like blogging about what you do, sometimes it gets tedious stopping in the middle of whatever you are working on to navigate to your blog / logging in / navigating to the admin panel / navigating to the editor / only then writing / editing / publishing that little gem of wisdom you hoped “would only take a minute…”

What’s “different” about the WriteToMyBlog application is it’s web-based, as opposed to being software you have to install and run locally or a browser addon, therefore relieving one’s self the annoyance of additional desktop clutter and memory / CPU usage.

I could take or leave the built-in TinyMCE editor, one thing I actually really like about WordPress’s post / page editor is the plain-text / code editor – it’s just the extra 2-3 clicks then waiting for my server to load everything up to get to it when I am in a hurry that gets frustrating sometimes.

So here goes my first post using WriteToMyBlog…

Post-blog-posting analysis:

• …that was pretty painless. interestingly, WriteToMyBlog uses Technorati tags – I still have to add in my own site tags
• nothing was tweeted to Twitter – but that is probably a bug of the Twitter Updater – if you can call it a bug – del.icio.us‘s daily links postings never get tweeted either.

And then, sometimes, we don’t always “see the forest for the trees” – umm, I just bookmarked the “new post page” at nyc.locationscout.us …duh…

…now back to our regularly-scheduled programming…

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“Panoramio’s creators are Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar. We are friends since secondary school and we come from two small towns in the South East of Spain. Panoramio was acquired by Google on July 2007″

…read more…

Panoramio KML Feed Map

Yahoo! Search: Panoramio

• Panoramio |
  Photo-sharing community. Discover the world through photos. … Cape Tarhankut in Crimea, Llaima Volcano in Chile, more cool places in Panoramio…
• Panoramio – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
  Panoramio is a geolocation-oriented photo sharing website. … Panoramio was started in the summer of 2005 by Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manch�. […]
• Panoramio – Casey station in Antarctica |
  Photo-sharing community. Discover the world through photos.

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• Adobe Photoshop Express – Made You Look. –
• Production-Now Blog –
• Summary: ‘Richard Hobbs’ –
• Locamundo.com | Q-Sphere Search –
• WordPress Web 2.0 Guide | WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er –
• Woot : One Day, One Deal (SM) –
• Companies using Twitter « Fluent Simplicity –

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• New York anti-traffic fees wither without a vote – ALBANY, New York (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to free Manhattan from traffic gridlock by charging rush-hour drivers withered as state lawmakers did not vote ahead of Monday's midnight deadline. A spokesman for Democratic…
• Ultimate guide to Twitter tools and resources for journalists | New Media Bytes | Online journalism, web production and promotion –
• Hoosgot — Send your wishes and desires out into the ether. –
• Check Your Site Page Rank and Backlinks | SEOPageRank.net –
• Twubble –
• Grazr – Twtter News –
• PhotoBlog Themes for WordPress –

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• Website and Subdomain List of R. Richard Hobbs –
• Sites near nyc.locationscout.us – GeoURL (2.0) –
• Obama Girl –
• Barely Political –
• Cortina Mountain Resort –
• opmlworkstation.com – rrhobbs profile –
• Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, and Traffic –
• Home – Microsoft Popfly –
• shots – The world’s most creative advertising, TV commercials, music videos, short films and animation – Home –
• floverview • a flickr overview –
• DigitalNetwork Limited – Powered By Kayako eSupport –
• DigitalNetwork Home –
• Traceroute, Ping, Domain Name Server (DNS) Lookup, WHOIS, and DNS Records Lookup –
• NationMaster – World Statistics, Country Comparisons –
• Schmap – New York –
• Schmap – Map Guides and Map Widgets –
• worldKit geocoder : a free worldwide city geocoder –
• Flickr: Explore everyone's photos on a Map –
• Google Reader – R. Richard Hobbs' shared items –

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• Search results slideshow on Flickr –
• OldNYC.com – Examining NYC's Transportation Infrastructure –
• BQE Watch –
• Flickr: Photos from miclush826 –
• Zubi Advertising Services – A leading independent US Hispanic advertising agency –
• nycvisit.com – Maps & Neighborhoods –
• This is New York City? –
• MovieMaker Forums | rrhobbs –
• Welcome to Rental & Staging Systems –
• Videography –
• Television Broadcast –
• Sports TV Production –
• BizBash Media | Events * Meetings * Marketing * Style * Strategy * Ideas –
• ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA EXPO –
• | Videology | –
• >>>> Q-Spheres <<<< –
• Digg / All News, Videos, & Images –
• DVExpo 2008 –
• TriggerStreet.com –
• DV – Digital Video –
• ShootOnline –
• Blog Directory, Blogs, Blog Sites // BlogCatalog –
• DigitalCinematography – The Daily Digital Cinema Resource –
• Welcome to Flickr! –
• George A. Romero – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• Terry Richardson – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• DUMBO, Brooklyn – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• Technorati: Front Page –
• Clio Awards – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page –
• Really not worth archiving. Really. | Frank Lynch –
• JohnnyCash.Com (THE OFFICIAL JOHNNY CASH SITE) –
• The SONY BMG Johnny Cash Site Home | The SONY BMG Johnny Cash Site
• R. Richard Hobbs' Customer Reviews –
• Amazon.com: Profile for R. Richard Hobbs –
• Amazon.com: location scouting –
• Air photo, scenic flights, plane ride, aerial location scouting –
• Locationpartnership.com – UK Film location library, photographic location library, photo location library

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• Film Commission – Nassau County, New York
  (tags: filmproduction filmlocations filmcommission filmpermit Nassau-County longisland NY)
• Location Scout Linkit Feed
  (tags: locationscout location+scout location-scout location_scout film locations ning linkit filmproduction resources lists)
• Twitter / twibble
  (tags: Twitter tools mashup web2.0 Twibble)
• Quick & Dirty Tips :: Grammar Girl
  (tags: grammar writing english language podcasts reference)
• Quick and Dirty Tips
  (tags: howto websites reference)

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“You’ve now entered the Dependent Films Download Center. It’s unbelievable 1) how much these files can help, and 2) how hard all of these tools are to find on the net.”

…read the rest…

Location Release Form

Location Scouting Sheet

Its true, especially when you are going about a hundred miles an hour trying to 20 other things and you need it NOW. That never happens to you, huh?

The above goodies are free as well

Yahoo! Search: tools utilities filmmakers

• Tools & Utilities for filmmakers |
  It’s unbelievable 1) how much these files can help, and 2) how hard all of these tools … Best of all, they’re all FREE (a favorite word for all inde. […]
• Tools + Utilities For Filmmakers at nyc.locationscout.us |
  Dependent Films | Tools & Utilities for filmmakers “You’ve now entered the Dependent Films Download Center. It’s unbelievable 1
• Tools & Utilities for filmmakers |
  Tools & Utilities for filmmakers > Movie Memorabilia. Marinol. Marinol prescription > … His music is used by the filmmakers as a creative playground. […]

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It hardly seems accidental or coincidental that most location scouts and location managers (as well as many directors, photographers, dp’s, producers and pa’s) seem to have at least just a little bit of that “techy gene” that gravitates them towards stuff like maps, organized data, gadgets, electronics, etc, etc… in any case, maps is useful stuff!

I mean, isn’t it pretty much assumed that you are real good at finding stuff? Aren’t you the “go-to” person to get your crew to and from a location as expeditiously and safely as possibly?

You might be a location scout if…

…I rest my case…

…but I digress…

(yummy GeoURL chicklet for this website)

I was very surprised to find there was not a Wikipedia page for GeoURL. Short of writing it myself, in the meantime, I have created a request for a GeoURL page to be added to Wikipedia

Basically, what happens is (using a very useful helper if you need it) you add the supplied metatags to the head (truncated for illustration) section of your homepage*

*this is admittedly somewhat “techy” stuff here… if you don’t already know, then it is up to you to be motivated enough to read and learn for yourself – read: don’t even think about writing me asking for “internet lessons”

If you view the source of my home page you will see the following metatags:

meta name=”ICBM” content=”40.86335, -74.16205″ / (truncated for illustration) (hint: see anything looks just an itty bitty teeny weeny bit like latitude and longitude?)
meta name=”DC.title” content=”nyc.locationscout.us” / (truncated for illustration) DC.title

Voila! – that is how GeoURL indexes your website

If you look on the results page for a GeoURL lookup of this website, you will see quite a bit of useful info:

“last updated 2008-03-21T11:34:54, created 2006-08-29T00:06:04.
atom | rss | Google Maps | MultiMap | Mapquest“

…and you will see all the other indexed websites geographically near this website as well. Neat, huh?

…read more…

nyc.locationscout.us Mapufacture Map

Map Room Blog

“A blog about maps by Jonathan Crowe, The Map Room covers everything from map collecting to the latest in geospatial technology.”

…read more

The Map Room

• Why More Cameras Don’t Come with GPS | Friday, 30 July 2010, 3:40 am
  On the New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog, Rik Fairlie asks why more digital cameras don’t come with GPS. “[C]amera makers say they haven’t adop. […]
• Ottawa Citizen Profiles Tomlinson | Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 2:14 pm
  With “father of GIS” Roger Tomlinson receiving the National Geographic Society’s Bell Medal earlier this month, the “local-boy-makes-good” s. […]
• Londonist’s Directory of London Maps | Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 2:11 pm
  Londonist has put together a directory of online maps of London. Via geoparadigm. Londonist’s Directory of London Maps first appeared on The Map Roo. […]

The Map Room Directory

• This Week in Maps | Friday, 21 May 2010, 4:03 am
  A podcast about the latest maptastic geohappenings.
• Magnificent Maps: Curators’ Blog | Friday, 23 April 2010, 6:57 pm
  This curators’ weblog accompanies the exhibition Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art, which will run at the British Library from 30 April to 1. […]
• Monde géonumérique | Monday, 8 March 2010, 11:23 pm
  J’essaie d’observer et d’analyser en géographe et en géomaticien la description numérique accélérée de la surface terrestre. Je souhaite m. […]

The map below uses GeoPress, which has been mentioned elsewhere on this site.

GeoURL Log

• Changed server | Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 9:34 am
  Whoops. Earlier this month server that was running the geourl.org webserver started having hick-ups (also known as crashing daily). It would reboot pr. […]
• GeoURL Reloaded | Saturday, 24 November 2007, 8:31 pm
  Whoot! Excuse the mess, we’re rebuilding. I’ve finally taken some time to clean up the code, optimize some slow paths, implement some new features. Th. […]
• GeoURL meets Google Maps | Tuesday, 14 June 2005, 2:28 am
  Leigh Dodds made a super neat GeoURL to Google Maps converter using the RSS feeds. Thanks Leigh, that’s awesome! Thanks for the suggestions for th. […]

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