Author Archives: Paul Dixon

Google Reader ’shared items’ WordPress widget

Use WordPress? Use Google Reader? Want a widget to share what you’re reading with the world? The widget that powers my “Interesting Posts” sidebar is now available for all – download it here – should work with any “widget ready” WordPress template.

There are other ways to get a similar result, a popular one is to use Feedburner to clean up the Google feed, then use a standard RSS widget to display it.

Enjoy!

New look, new features!

Revamped the blog with a nice new look, and I reworked the “Geograph of the Day” as a WordPress widget (contact me if you want a copy). I’ve also written a widget which copes nicely with Google Reader’s RSS feed to provide a list of posts which have piqued my interest – you’ll see that in the sidebar too.

Hooray for Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey have agreed to sponsor Geograph for a further two years, which means we have enough cash to keep it running into 2010 and beyond. While continuing to further the education aspirations of Geograph, we’re also looking to work more closely with the research team at the OS who are involved in the Tripod project, as we’re both generating data sets of interest to each other.