gregword

Ross is the man; I’ve been loving his weekly posts summarizing the weekly goings-on of the DC tech community. Now he’s taken it one step further: DC Tech Events Weekly, a site dedicated to summarizing the next 7 days of what’s happening in DC tech stuff. Simply awesome.

And check this, Ross goes into a bit more detail on the inner-workings of DC Tech Events:

In January I posted about an idea I called the “Editorial Calendar Aggregator“, but I hadn’t really connected it to any particular task I needed such a tool to accomplish….Things started to fall into place after I set up a database and a thin web interface to edit events with. Now I find myself almost there– The system currently pulls in event data from 21 different groups automatically, and I can annotate the events that come in as I see fit. I want to support a few more calendar formats, add an approval queue (so I can subscribe to more general event streams, like searches from Upcoming.org and Eventful, without accepting every event), and publish in one or more forms of output that are actually reusable, but none of those things are much of a leap from what I have now.

I kind of predicted this.

Ross has some updates on Localfeeds; things are getting closer. It looks very cool, and Ross has changed things from the original. Whereas the original was content-based (very similar to BD Local; I’ve said before, Localfeeds was a big inspiration), the new version is more focused on listing sites from each location using user-contributed data. The result is a reading list on a city-by-city basis. Very cool (and Ross and I are working on integrating Localfeeds and Blogdigger Local services to complement each other). So make sure to keep an eye on Localfeeds.