Bookmark blogging
An experiment, brought to you by the need to restart my browser to get an extension installed, and the realization that once I clicked a couple of times to “bookmark all tabs in a folder” I would have a definition list with links and page titles in <dt> tags, already created for me, in bookmarks.html. Open up the Bookmark Manager, and Properties let me add a description that winds up in <dd> elements. Run it through (X)HTML Tidy to get rid of the upper-case tags (how did we live with HTML SHOUTING AT US all those years?), and then… ish. All I had to do was manually take out all the attributes on every link for add_date, last_modified, last_charset, id, and icon. That part’s ripe for a little scripting to automate it. Might make a nice excuse to learn how to use Python’s SGML parser.
- Bloglines
- Just the new stuff, whenever from wherever.
- SitePoint Blogs : Dynamically Typed
- This is an interesting post on Harry Fuecks’ SitePoint Blog. Because the page title and URL both suck, I don’t know which one right now.
- Blogrolling.com’s OPML Import/Export
- “the OPML format is pretty simple. Writing a script or application to extract the information from such a file is so easy that you don’t really need to import an XML parser; ordinary string parsing should be sufficient.” … “Please note that as of this writing, OPML importing is in beta and has one notable bug: it fails to import the blog represented by the first <outline> element.”
- Dr Feed Good - Online Feed Valiations for RSS and Atom
- New validator in town. Typoing “validation” in your validator’s page title seems a bit like correcting someone’s grammar by saying “that ain’t right,” though.
- http://feedvalidator.org/testcases/rss/must/foaf_person.xml
- Note to self: ask if this is really supposed to be double-testing by being not-well-formed.
- As I May Think…: Making Categorization work: (PSI) Published Subject Indicators
- Feels oh-so-close to being a topic/subject/category breakthrough.
- apophenia: what i want in an RSS tool
- RSS of anything you want, entry, category, author, whatever. Isn’t that a WordPress feature?
- MarketingWonk: Lots of Bloggers, But Too Few for Pew
- Only two to eight times as many bloggers as Larry King watchers.
- Creating Internet Content - LibraryPlanet.com
- Hardly anyone blogs, but then, how many publish books or have television shows?
- [Altered from a Xenu broken link report]
- Broken links make the Baby Jesus cry. Xenu makes Him happy.
- Gnutella.com
- Bears a passing resemblance to the former “What is Gnutella?” page at gnutellanews.com
- What is Gnutella?
- The page itself, thanks to the fine folks at archive.org
- Feed Validator for Atom and RSS
- I know a seeeecret! But I’m not telling, I’m afraid. Sorry.
- Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious
- If you’re not a researcher who wants to look over bloggers’ shoulders, do you really need “via” links on everything? I do them when it’s an odd source for me, or when the person had something good to say about the link, but I’m not obsessive about giving or getting them. Should I be? How about if my “via” is a links-blog, with a “via” another one, with a “via” another… how much of the chain do I have to reproduce? (via Wired’s RSS feed, and a dozen others)
- Slashdot | Bloggers’ Plagiarism Scientifically Proven
- Slashdot on the shocking news that bloggers steal links from each other. Surprisingly enough, the comments aren’t all the same old drivel. Is our little /. growing up?
- Pudding Time!: Show Us Your Fishing Hole
- Might have persuaded me that always “via”ing was a good thing, if it weren’t for the title. My unshakeable policy for fishing is “how, always; where, never.” (stolen via The River Why)
- BlogPulse [BETA]: Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs
- (via Wired)
- http://www-idl.hpl.hp.com/cgi-bin…evhead.com…
- (via BlogPulse) I hate Java applets.
- Scott Young’s Radio Weblog
- UserLand’s future plans.
- Syndication Studio 2004 - howdev.com
- A desktop app for creating RSS, OPML, and Atom feeds. Funny thing, I was just thinking about doing a crappy, online thing like this in PHP the other day. I’m betting theirs works better.
- How To Speed-Read the Net - Ditch your browser
- Paul Boutin on RSS. One thing I never really noticed before: one of the main purposes of Syndic8 is to let you search for feeds, but the search box is seriously hidden away in the depths of the home page.
- SourceForge.net: Modify:910408 - Dates not correctly handled as per RFC822
- Note to self: look at test cases and obscure forms of RFC (2)822 dates, and don’t forget the “obsolete but still required” forms hidden away in the appendix. Also: are military time zones really backward in 822?
- Syndic8.com - Feed List
- Note to self: remember Syndic8 login, set that rss092main.php feed to “replaced by the one true feed”.
- redemption in a blog: Link Toolbar for Firefox
- I’m with Cheah Chu Yeow: I don’t know why I’ve been skipping over the Link Toolbar for Firefox. Well, partly it’s because of the “Toolbar” in the title, but it’s actually a status bar panel, down in the bottom of the screen where it’s out of the way, just waiting to tell you whether or not RSS autodiscovery is likely to work on that page.
- anil dash’s daily links: February 29, 2004 - March 06, 2004 Archives
- Anil gets more IM spam in a day than he’s gotten comment spam in his life? I’ve got four different scripts that could change that in a few minutes (or tens of minutes, depending on the latency of my proxies).
- Burningbird: How are you tonight?
- Better, after a fix of Shell’s writing, that’s how. Thanks.
- Blogzilla - a blog about Mozilla: Download Manager is Giving You the Finger
- I did notice that the Firefox Download Manager seemed to be trying to tell me something, but the doctors tell me not to tell people about thoughts like that. I think I’ll reinstall the Download Statusbar extension. It’s way nicer, anyway, and it’s never made a rude gesture at me.
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Not that I rightly remember, but I imagine that you can hack it in. You can get an RSS feed of an individual entry’s comments out-of-the-box, and there are instructions in the wiki [if poorly-written] on how to do per-category feeds.
Well, I don’t know if author’s built in, and it may only be in nightly builds, but I just went to one, clicked the category link for the first entry I saw, then tacked
rss2/on the URL, and got a category feed, clicked the permalink and tackedrss2/onto the link and got a comments feed, and, err, I know that blog hasn’t had extra feed support hacked in.It’s entirely likely that it’s in the nightlies. I’ve been pretty busy since the first of the year, so I am not up on the bleeding edge of WP dev.
How about if my ”via” is a links-blog, with a ”via” another one, with a ”via” another… how much of the chain do I have to reproduce?
No need to get all crazy. If everyone attributed their sources, it’d be on the individual reader to recreate as much or as little of the attribution chain as desired.
And plus, to defend the title of my contribution to the ”pro via” cause, the ”fishing hole” in question is, you know, bottomless and infinitely well stocked. It’s not like John and Belle will run out of things to say because we know they’re there.
If there were some sort of scarcity involved, the info-capitalist mode of obscuring sources and rattling an Amazon tip cup might make some sense.
As it is, the only thing anyone has to lose is that cool veneer of omniscience.
Ah, but to stretch an analogy way too far, one of the things I go fishing for is the peaceful aspect of being alone or nearly so. I tend not to bother linking to something that ten people linked before Boing Boing, and fifty people linked afterward, and that just among the people I read. By that measure, even though the sources are as (seemingly) limitless as an Alaskan salmon run, there’s only so much room on the bank, and you have to have a taste for combat fishing to get a place.
Oy. On second thought, take that link to Syndication Studio 2004 out of there. $60 for an app that’s pretty where it doesn’t matter, in the menus, ugly and awkward where it does, in the forms, and doesn’t even try in the least to help you get a decent workable feed (enter philringnalda.com instead of http://philringnalda.com for a link element, certainly one of the easiest things to fix, and it doesn’t let out a peep). Maybe I should go back to thinking about an ugly but functional one.
Two thoughts:
If everyone attributed, each poster would only have to attribute one step back. And like MHall said, the reader would have the complete chain of attribution for their perusal. So in the ideal world, the onus of attribution would be a single link backwards.
Second, it seems like
diffwould be a great tool for creating a linkblog: save a copy of your Mozilla bookmarks every 24 hours, anddiffthe current file with the saved file for a record of added (and removed) bookmarks. And like you said, this would be easily scriptable. I think 0xDECAFBAD already does something like this.I love the sound of autoblogging by diffing bookmark files. I’d probably just regex out the addresses and titles, though, instead of pushing it through HTML Tidy. Then all you would have to do is get it to post itself. Brilliant.
You’ve got more faith in your code than I have in mine, I’d guess. I just know I’d bookmark Jesse Ruderman’s page for the resurrection of Pornzilla, with some suitably ironic description, then go off browsing porn, bookmark a bunch of images, and wind up posting them. I don’t think I want it quite that automated.
Ah, well, I suppose there are two ways to protect against that: only post bookmarks with descriptions added, and/or only save drafts to be edited or approved later.
I have ended up with hundreds of bookmarks over the years, with no time to post them all. Even posting them as neatly constructed links would take forever, and a good whack of them are news stories that are now months (or years) ”out of date”.
I’ve actually decided to replace my main weblog with a few separate things, so creating a linklog that could practically manage itself would be great.
What’s He Building In There?: Phil Ringnalda
I’m starting up a new category to highlight people who look like they’re working on stuff that will soon make it to my Cool Tool category. I’m calling it ”What are they building in there?”, based on the title of