Sorry for creating a new term, but I couldn’t resist. 
This term describes blog structures which is indicative of structured blogging.
There have been some interesting discussions floating around about structured blogging, so I invented a [lame] term to describe it. It’s a pretty simple concept - create classes (or types) of blog posts that are designed to carry data or other types of information related to the post. Armed with this ability, bluctures could be used to create blog applications that co-mingle primary data with your blog content. For example, you could have a blog post that has a form for task information, or perhaps a phone log. Imagine a blog structure that tracks your current GEO location when you make a post - perfect for travel-blogs.
In my own company (and technology) this concept has been in use for more than a few years. When we designed our corporate blog platform, we envisioned precisely these kinds of use cases. We use blog posts as the basis for competitive intelligence data, search results, and even quality assurance report results.
Imagine the use cases for PR and journalism…
- Use a private/secure blog to author story snippets as you research and keep a record of your contacts and sources.
- Blog your thoughts about new ideas and rate each idea with an embedded [graphic] data tool.
Use your imagination…
2 comments
3/30/2005 at 9:36 pm
Robert
Bill, I was talking with a Journalism faculty member and we were discussing how many newspapers (and some companies seeking to sell the service) are already doing this.
Locally, I’m told, our little paper is going around and developing a database of all street intersections to be used in conjunction with existing databases.
I can just see someone (Advance.net) signing up with a search company (A9) and tying stories into this process - with photos - and, of course, advertising and directions/search (storefront photos).
Do you know of any such examples?
In opensource blogging, a similar process (I’m sure in simpler fashion) to your application, has already been written that reads a predefined directory.
I can only imagine that someone has already created one that checks their GMS (attached to their laptop) and drops in the Geo-code into the pre-existing WordPress blanks for it.
I guess the next thing is for PC makers to have GMS built into the laptop. Can’t be too far away, can it?
3/30/2005 at 11:39 pm
BillFrench
I guess the next thing is for PC makers to have GMS built into the laptop. Can’t be too far away, can it?
Nope - not far at all.
Eventually every device will record it’s geo-position with every event. Imagine cameras that capture position as effortlessly as date and time. Now extend that notion to everything including pens, video cameras, phones, XM radios, your tire gauge (some ideas are bad), and firearms (some ideas are good).