http://www.beatmaps.com/

You’ll have to look at what’s being done with other cities, because while they’re set up for san francisco already, there’s no listings as yet. Maybe you can change all that :)

I understand about the desire for a stand alone script. It seems that there will be some mashup sooner or later to support what you desire and possibly a secondary posting of the events on a hosted solution.

On the layered issue, as I mentioned, by having submitters tag their events, one could quickly – interactively reduce the number of events displayed for each day, for example unselect Dancing if that is not of interest.

and in fact if you look at the Trumba calendar I referenced:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/automobiles/event_calendar.html

You’ll see that without unselecting any of the layers it handles 20 events on July 16th with ease.

I wish you guys would have found a way to embrace calendar 2.0 – interactive calendars – in particular look at the sample interactive Auto Calendar at tne NY Times by Trumba

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/automobiles/event_calendar.html

note that it supports calendar Appointments to Yahoo, Outlook, Hotmail, Ical and Google.

And for interactivity, Google Calendar is the gold standard now – they just need to come out with tools to let it sync with other calendars. And it already supports inviting friends to an event.

By having submitters tag their events – say Dance, Reading, or Political you could create layered calendars very easily.

Where my mailbox used to read:
SQUID [07/22] Opening of “Bay Area Bronze”
SQUID [07/22] Precita Eyes 10th Annual Urban Youth Arts Fes
SQUID [07/23] Family Art & Nature Day at the di Rosa Preser
SQUID [07/23] San Francisco Theater Festival
SQUID [07/24] Team Zombie Shuffle Gala Love Boat benefit fo
SQUID [07/25] A benefit for Trans/Gender Variant in Prison
SQUID [07/25] Ask a Scientist – Anniversary Trivia Party!

…which tells me the event dates, it now reads:

SQUID: 07-17-2006 – Squid List
SQUID: 07-18-2006 – Squid List
SQUID: 07-19-2006 – Squid List
SQUID: 07-20-2006 – Squid List
SQUID: 07-21-2006 – Squid List

…which tells me the submission dates. To find out what’s going this weekend, 7/22 – 7/23, I have to individually open each email, because events for the those dates are distributed among the emails marked 7-16, 7-17, 7-20 and 7-21. (I assume the date on the subject line of the digest is the submission date? Perhaps I should have said the ‘event posting date’ instead.)

Spurred by earlier comments I read up on hCal… that rocks hard! Technorati’s feed service worked with the old calendar in a proof-of-concept kind of way (all this month’s events displayed in iCal, but all on today’s date at 12:00 AM), the thought of being able to subscribe to the new calendar via technorati’s script and read it in iCal is very, very appealing.

One thing I’m thinking, there are already a lot of XSLTs for working with hCal out there, I might use FileMaker Advanced to whip up a standalone Squidlist Reader database and/or standalone app. I’ll post if I come up with anything.

I used to be able to sort my mailbox by subject, then glance down the list for what’s going on tonight, now I have to open a bunch of different emails every time, with no clue which ones tonight’s events are scattered throughout… no thanks.

It’s not a huge deal, as we have the online calendar to look at events by date, but it was nice to have an event list I could look through on the way home on the bus. (I know an RSS feed might fit this bill but with the way computers already dominate my time already I’m very circumspect about having to add yet another technology to pay attention to every day… I preferred to get the posts by means I already use.)

1. The current digest does not have an opton to show any description informaiton, however we have just added a new email list option, which uses FeedBurner’s RSS-To-Email feature. It sends out a daily digest with full event descriptions. For more info, check out option A in the Email List Subscription Info section of the Squid List FAQ.

2. The current digest does not have a plain text option or else we would have made that available (see my update about HTML email on this blog post). It’s possible that the new FeedBurner list has this option or will be adding it in the future, so we are looking into that possibility.

1. in the digest, can there be a short description of an event under the title?

2. …that would enable a text-only version. many people still don’t have access to HTML-based email, or it’s inconvenient. I’m a geek, so I have my mailer translate the HTML to plaintext, but then I just see a bunch of URLs.

One suggestion: How about an RSS feed based on dates? Like, an RSS feed that updates at 6am with links to all the events that day. For last minute procrastinators like myself, that would be golden.