The geotagged Geoblogosphere

I have added metacarta's geoparser API to Geoblogosphere News which is able to recognize placenames in blog posts. The recognized places are visualized now in two ways:

First: a little Google chart API map shows a quick overview, the image here shows the first try. (The Geoblogosphere seems to be quite US centric;)) I have placed this beneath the tag cloud..
Second: a click on this map brings you to a Google maps where all geotagged blog posts are shown.

Looks quite nice.. however, sometimes results are quite strange, e.g. the geoparser insists placing blog posts containing 'Darwin' in Australia!

A tag cloud for Geoblogosphere News

Geoblogosphere News, has two new major features:

1. A 'tag cloud' shows a list of the week's most frequent terms you used in your blogs. As this list would have been useless without the possibility to click on a term and get a list of corresponding blog entries I also added
2. some search functionality which allows full-text queries on blog.

This week's hottest geoglobospheric topic seems to be Darwin..

Darwin, darwini, darwinii, darwinianus, darwinianum

Well, here is something to contribute to 'Blogging about Darwin' and has at something to do with Snet: A TaxonConcept query for 'darwin' discovers 12 taxon names containing the term darwin in the second epithet.

It seems as if these taxa have been introduced to honor Charles Darwin. As you can see in the result list, there are a variety of possibilities to latinise Darwin's name there is darwini, darwinii, darwinianus and darwinianum.

I found it also rather astonishing that some of the names have been assigned by d'Orbigny to honor Darwin as early as in the 40th of the 19th century! But obviously Darwin and d'Orbigny knew each other quite well frequently exchanged letters.

P.S.
The TaxonConcept results list is by far not a complete list, for more results you can check also other databases such as ubio, which shows >300 matches for 'darwinii'. Here you will also find some names containing darwiniana..