Amazing. I mention a government website purely because the technology is interesting and within hours I get a comment like yours. You guys are good! Be fascinating to see how you do your tracking

As for “social media advisor” I don’t like the term myself and expect it to be rolled into more established sectors (if you’ll excuse another word I don’t care much for) once everything settles down. And you’re right, there are a hell of a lot of snake oil salesmen rapidly moving into this area at the moment, which is weird when you’ve been doing this stuff for a decade. There’s a lot of hype and bullshit surrounding that which we call social media at the moment but, and it’s a big but, I do think it will fundamentally change the world on all sorts of levels in interesting ways. During that change there’s a role for people like me. When the change is done and it’s all mundane and normal there won’t be. That’s what I’m aiming for – my own redundancy.

But yeah, seriously impressed with your methods. Suspect I might passionately disagree with your aims but that’s not what this blog is about.

The georeferencing bit can be done using a specific set of tags that function much like ‘smart tags’ in Word documents. There’s at least one existing protocol – possibly a ‘geo’ microformat – and that there are scripts or applications which automate much of the process.

With that part simplified, you’ve got a semi-autmated bloggin system for whatever your favourite topics are. So I’m curious about trying it out on one of my own. Thanks for the tip.

There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that using social media is the right solution for some businesses in helping them reach customers. Also, if we can build an industry out of social media (and there’s one being built around you in case you didn’t notice) then that’s jobs isn’t? You know, real jobs that a failing economy needs?

My reason for a visit to the comments was to point out that even though the Real Help Now site has an interesting use of delicious links the most recent West Midlands story on is from January. The regional recession website hasn’t been updated since then either. There’s no doubt plenty of stuff being done by agencies to support companies in the recession but as usual they haven’t learnt the art of actually telling us about it. And given how easy it is to tell us, as Pete’s example highlights, that a real shame.