“Maybe have some RSS feeds, structured tagging, searchable local events section by categories, geotagging, good search tools, great layout etc.”

But not sure about the latest blogposts etc then there’s more content and troubleshooting etc unless if the whole site was completed and then there was time and energy left over.

Maybe you could have a roll your own rss section. perhaps create your own custom opml file to upload to your feedreader.

I’d like to see multiple ways to display content esp blogs ie by type, maybe neighbourhood multiple tags etc

I’m thinking more directory than a lot of user submitted content because then you can get easily lost in the data smog of the later

Place blogger has some pretty cool stuff but I’m thinking blogs + other local internet related content, maybe that can be tagged and structured so thats its mashable by other people or even within the site itself.

Hi John, yes you’re probably right. Not exactly sure what the platform would be and look like. I just see there’s a lot of local geek talent in Vancouver and it would be cool to put some of those brains together for a connective content site. Designing the right user and back end interface would be a challenge.

One purpose of it would be sort of a way to find each other between northern voices. Yes there’s google but it’s not browseable. I’d like it to be useful, functional expandable, non static but at the same time limited. Ie not just an internet yellow pages of everyone selling soap online in vancouver would be challenging.

yes possibly a wiki but I think it’s got to be something scaleable and expandable. I think a wiki is kind of limited in terms of slicing and dicing content but I could be wrong on that I missed the wiki session at northern voice.

Later versions of the software we use at Urban Vancouver (Drupal) can do much more interesting things, like user-submitted feeds, tagging and filtering, so I wanted to say that I like the ideas presented here. Directories, in my mind, are nothing to sneer at, because with them you get someone (or multiple someones) who can garden the list. To make it more dynamic than just a straight directory, though, I’d be more interested in a syndication component, maybe linking to the latest x posts from blogs. That way you can tell how recently the blog was updated, and with what. http://www.placeblogger.com/ comes to mind here.

When you told Tod and Rebecca about this, I instantly thought of this:
http://vancouver.wikia.com/

As soon as that site was setup, it was abandoned. There are many avenues to approach this idea, and it just becomes a matter of putting it together. Obviously there are people here already trying to do something like this. And hey, I’d love to help out as well. Just not sure how because even I have a little bit of a time wrapping my head around it all.

I guess depends who builds it Robert, nice meeting you at the conference looking forward to seeing your startup in action.

Would it basically be an advanced blogroll, or something more functional?