In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

I've been recently able to implement a few improvements to the user interface of the site.

• You can now share individual geonews directly by email, that's the little envelope at the bottom of every geonews
• You can also use 'Google +1' for individual stories, that the blue +1 button at the bottom of every geonews. A Google account is required
• While the 'Daily Geonews Newsletter' has been there since 2005, you can now get the 'Geospatial Press Releases' by email. These instructions have been added to the slightly updated 'Using this site' page
• For user sharing comments and submitting geonews, a new WYSIWYG editor has been installed and is much less confusing than the previous one. It also fixes the missing linebreaks in the daily newsletter which reappeared lately
• Some users trying to submit content fail to pass our spam filter. If you have such a problem, contact us, I have a permanent solution for you
• We also removed the ability to "Watch" geonews from the front page and from the RSS feed. You won't be getting '404 Not Found' errors from the RSS feed anymore. This feature is still present in individual geonews pages

If you have comments or suggestions, don't hesitate! This site is for all of us after all! :-) Next step (no deadlines) is to improve the look of the site itself.

I also take the opportunity to mention The Map Room blog is going in prolonged hiatus. "TMR" has been an excellent source of geonews, too bad the community is losing him. This of course made me think about Slashgeo's own future. Similarly to TMR's Jonathan, this Slashgeo project had and is still having a significant negative impact on other personal projects I have. While arguably successful, Slashgeo.org has not yet become a tool for the geospatial community by the geospatial community. Will it become so? The future will tell us! Want to contribute to this adventure? Just drop me a line.