I’ve been filing away neat things that I’ve learned. Like:

• Firefox supports GeoLocation (which varies in accuracy, but is really accurate for me)
• Stephen Hood released the Blockchalk API
• Google Maps lets you use GeoRSS feeds as a term

This solves the problem I had with BlockChalk, which is I wanted a way that I could see what’s going on near where I am - and I don’t have an iPhone.

So I wrote two bookmarklets:

Blockchalk Me which will list Blockchalk listings near you

and

Blockchalk this Google Map which only works if Google Maps is open. It will load Blockchalks that are near the center of the open Google Map.

Unfortunately Blockchalk doesn’t have a lot of data yet, and will return no results if there’s nothing within a mile radius. Hopefully a radius parameter will be included for the API call.

So there’s no guarantees on the first bookmarklet, but the second bookmarklet should yield nice results for this location.

Enjoy.