World 66

Every traveller acquires a lot of weird, but useful, information about places they visit-- everything from what public places have clean bathrooms, to where to get good dim sum after midnight. It's a great example of private knowledge that could be quite useful if it is made public-- and is, in the form of helpful hints from friends and fellow travellers. I recently came across a site that tries to digitize the phenomenon: World66:

World66 is a collaborative project to create an open content travel guide. This means that virtually anyone can edit our articles.

Essentially, it's a travel wiki. I found it's a little uneven-- I created an "eating out" section for Philadelphia, a city with a lot of interesting restaurants, and incredibly, there are no restaurant or cafe listings for the San Francisco Bay Area-- but it's definitely the kind of project that will become more valuable as the number of contributors increases.

Now if I could only access it in real-space as well as real-time-- look up its Washington DC restaurant listings when I'm there, and hungry-- we'd really be getting somewhere.

[via Halavais]

[To the tune of George Harrison, "My Sweet Lord," from the album All Things Must Pass (Disc One).]