Spend enough time looking at blogs, you learn a gazillion things.
Phil Wolff not only actually said something nice about me ;^), but his "a klog apart" is rife with blog-o-stuff I just gotta learn about.
One step at a time.
Here's the "blogchalk" phenomenon:
Slight interpretive services: I speak English (I am American, of Irish descent); I also claim to make my way satisfactorily in Italian (lived and worked there two years). My interests include Technology (web development stuff, XML & so forth), and Literature (including theater).
My first Chalk Searches:
http://bstpierre.org/bc/
"Davis Square" = 0
"Somerville" = 0 (!)
"Massachusetts" = 6
3 were dupes, somebody in Haverhill
1 featured James Bond girls homepage mega-pic (Taunton, Weir neighborhood, wherever that is)
couple were gone/dead
One guy actually lives in Somerville (you'd think he'd come up under Search #2, no?), but his blogchalk isn't part of his page. There you go.
Hmmm.
I thought the point was to drill in geographically, maybe get a "descending count" from some kind of GUI as you narrow in, & Etc. This was just free text search. Ah well.
Over to Google:
"blogchalk Davis Square"
- Gray Davis, (some) Square
- "I used to live in Davis Square, now..." (at least a couple on that theme)
- "blogchalk Wellesley" (boh?)
Meanwhile, out West, "Oakland" (Phil's hometown) yields 32, and narrowing in on "Adam's Point" gets 20 ("a klog apart" correctly coming up under both, natch).
(But then, _quite_ strangely (?), "California" yields 3? (u tell me). And "United States" also yields, three. (But not the same three.) Veddy interesting.)
Well anyway, I like the idea, and who knows maybe with time something will even come of it. Surely there's a blogger or two down the street...
Thanks, Phil! (3,000 miles distant)
Wm.