I started this weblog as a way for me to practice writing about anything I wanted. But one always wonder, if nobody is there to hear my voice, do I sound like one hand clapping? Therefore, I embarked on a mission to publicize this website a little bit more.

That in itself is nothing of interest, but I did encounter a novel way to connect with people, the people around you in your area who have blogs or websites. It’s called GeoTagging. You input a geo position tag in your website and have it indexed by a service such as GeoURL or A2B GeoLocation, and you can start finding out who else have a web prescence and also live near your location!

You can find your geo position by searching for it on MultiMap.com. Then just add the following info (see my example) on your site homepage’s header and ping the 2 indexing services.

<meta name=”geo.position” content=”43.8109;-79.32″>
<meta name=”geo.placename” content=”Scarborough, Ontario”>
<meta name=”geo.region” content=”CA-ON”>
<meta name=”DC.title” content=”VinceChan.net”>

Check out who are my web neighbours (within 30 km) here!