It's an ugly bit of coding and definitely a "crappy prototype", but here's a quick & dirty mashup of the blog posts tracked by HotStuff and Google Maps… www.daveyp.com/cgi-bin/hotstuff/places.pl
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
The "Harry Potter Effect"
If you look at the overall keyword cloud for HotStuff 2.0, you can see librar* bloggers like to talk about libraries, books, reading, books and libraries. When some things are more popular than others, this gives rise to Tim Spalding's "Harry Potter Effect" — everyone's got the HP books on their shelves, so, if you're [...]
Another day, another bit of code…
I've added another bit of code to HotStuff 2.0 to try and locate blogs with similar content. In theory, the suggestions should improve as more posts are consumed (the good ol' Network Effect) as this gives the code more data to find matches on. For those interested in such things, the code compares the word [...]