I just came across Upcoming.org, which is "a collaborative event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Enter in the events you're attending, comment on events entered by others, and syndicate event listings to your own weblog. As Upcoming.org learns more about the events you enjoy, it will suggest new events you never would have heard about."
I don't know about the learning side of it, but one thing that's definitely of relevance to us is that they offer RSS feeds of calendar events for different cities. Here's their page about London:
http://upcoming.org/metro/uk/london/london/
I think if I can hack together some kind of aggregator plugin, this could be a great thing to include with the guides to provide extra depth (and an incentive to keep coming back).
On Wed 29 Oct 2003, Earle Martin openguides@downlode.org wrote:
I just came across Upcoming.org, which is "a collaborative event calendar, completely driven by people like you. [...]
I like. I joined.
I think if I can hack together some kind of aggregator plugin, this could be a great thing to include with the guides to provide extra depth (and an incentive to keep coming back).
I smell slashboxes. Not that this is necessarily a bad smell.
Kake
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:44:48AM +0000, Kate L Pugh wrote:
I like. I joined.
So did I.
I think if I can hack together some kind of aggregator plugin, this could be a great thing to include with the guides to provide extra depth (and an incentive to keep coming back).
I smell slashboxes. Not that this is necessarily a bad smell.
Well, I was thinking of something else - I was talking to Andy Baio - the guy whose site it was - on IRC, and asked him if he could implement per-venue feeds, which he said should be possible. So, my plan is, I write the plugin, then you can do something like this on a given page representing a venue:
@RSS_FEED [http://example.com/syndicate/venue/50] *
Which produces output something like:
Upcoming.org: Events at the Shepherds Bush Empire
- Sat Nov 22: [music] The Cooper Temple Clause - Sun Nov 23: [music] Bob Dylan - Tue Nov 25: [music] Blondie - Wed Dec 03: [music] Michael Franti & Spearhead - Fri Dec 05: [music] Inspiral Carpets
And all of those would link through to the event listings.
* Example.com because this URL doesn't exist yet.
On Thu 30 Oct 2003, Earle Martin openguides@downlode.org wrote:
Well, I was thinking of something else - I was talking to Andy Baio - the guy whose site it was - on IRC, and asked him if he could implement per-venue feeds, which he said should be possible. So, my plan is, I write the plugin, then you can do something like this on a given page representing a venue:
@RSS_FEED [http://example.com/syndicate/venue/50] *
I like this idea.
Kake
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