Now, all I have to do is practice.

However, the tool is a bit simple, does not understand incremental backups etc, it seems. Anyone in the (lazy)web2.0 circles done something like this with Python or something that also syncs the tags and other metadata?

"I'd like a true operating system (Linux) and advanced middleware (GTK, Gnome, DBUS, ….) power new exciting connected mobile devices. I want to use the devices and their software as innovation platforms and want to create something new; not just re-implement something that has already been done. And yes, you are able to talk, see, hear and communicate through these devices but they are not your old cell phones. They are something else!

(answering the endless question about why the Nokia 770 is not a cellular phone) Check out the whole post.

Try the same on del.icio.us: This and this. Smooch!

Of course, they are not much use until the metaweblog API in blogs supports them, but this is a start!

Does anyone know a flight tracking service one could use to hook it as a backend to geoclue?

Happy Hackers brainstorming GeoClue

One of our projects is to have our hacker community more location aware, and one step in that is to have our blogs geotagged. So go, get the GeoRSS plugin for Wordpress (if anyone knows other blog engines that support this, let us know!) - and start tagging your blog entries with location. Then we can make PlanetGnome show our locations, as well as plotting ourselves on the PlanetMap.

It's great that one of the GeoRSS plugin authors contacted us also, and he is talking with the GeoRSS.org people to try to get some common agreement on how the XMLRPC weblog API could support this information as well. Neat to have co-operation between the Linux Desktop and Blogging communities!
So go, get the plugin and start being geo-aware. I want to see us swarming to Birmingham like a bunch of bees on the map during next Guadec!

Another thing that we need to figure out is how to add those tags into blog RSS feeds. The goal is to get Planet to become aware of the location of each post, so we can create a map of them.

I found this plugin that does something what I want, but there's still some research to be done to make this work..

Edit: Looks like the above mentioned GeoRSS plugin for Wordpress actually does encode the coordinates to the feeds, which is neat. Now, does anyone know a way to actually adding the location information in the first place, by using a blog API that Gnome Blog can use? There's a nice UI in Wordpress web editor itself, that can be used to set location, but I want GeoClue to set it automatically for me.