Posted 6:43 AM by Creditwrench

A important new level of publication ability and technology has arrived for our J-accuse blog. It is named "Atom" and it means a whole new era of ease and portability for our blog.

It also heralds the advancement of search engine technology coming in the near future for Google since they own blogger. I've probably spoken before about API feeds which
Google rolled out a few months ago but so far hasn't been used much.

The whole thing boils down a discussion about what will become a new way of browsing which will help to cut down on virus problems and also mean that our blogs will get much wider media attention and much faster search engine placement for sites with relevant and meaningful content such as our J-accuse blog always has.

The first concept that needs to be propagated to and understood as well as accepted by the surfing public is that of feed readers. There are already a huge number of fairly good free feed readers and a few that you have to pay for. They are also known as "aggregators" and if you put that term in any of the search engines you will come up with a pretty good list of them. So far, they are pretty crude and have almost none of the bells and whistles that current browsers have but that will change over time as well.

But it makes little difference that feed readers are available if there is no way to syndicate and distribute one's blog without the hassle of hand coding the RSS feeds that are needed to generate the feeds and worse yet if the blog is not set up to make hand coding an efficient and feasable task.

Atom is the new process of handling those problems and will pretty well make feeding the aggregators an automated process. Once the majority of webmasters become aware of the new Atom technology they can easily set their blogs up to publish their blogs and get them into all the blogging search engines.

So now we have a reasonably viable set of tools to work with starting with multiple types of search engines such as GEO URLs which mean that the webmaster uses a GPs receiver or other means to determine his exact physical location in terms of decimal eqivalents for his latitude and longitude and puts that information in his blog or webpage coding and the GEO search engines will tell the world exactly where he is located. That may seem like utter foolishness to some at this time but it starts to make a lot of sense to those who think in terms of how easy that will make it to find driving directions to any business or home address anywhere on earth. And that don't help an awful lot until you have your vehicle equipped the way my pickup is equipped, meaning that it has a compass, a GPS receiver which feeds constant moving data to a laptop and a cell phone such as a Motorola V300 which has the capability to become an actual modem. So for about $20 a month you can now have internet in your car or truck with no problem and stay connected even when on the road and have a live feed right into your laptop so you can plot your course to any place on the face of the earth and and take the shortest and fastest route there. My pickup has quite a lot more features in it as well. There are 2 more computers in the bed of the truck and all 3 are fully controlable from the cab. And there is a dash mounted webcam as well with snapshot capability and of course the cell phone has a camera as well.

But I digress. So we have GEO URL search engines as well as the normal ones we are all familiar with and we also have search engines specifically for blogs plus the ones we are all familiar with and these are all being supported by Google at the present time. And we have Google API feeds which are helping to get blogs into the search engines much faster.

And now we have Atom which will make getting the blogs published much easier and more practical by eliminating the need for hand coding each article we write into RSS format for publication. Now it is all going to happen automatically and in real time.

That is a huge advancement thanks to Google and blogspot.com.

And I can tell you right now that there are a lot more advancements yet to come and are either already here or well on the way.