phil ringnalda

A couple of itty-bitty tools to make using blo.gs easier:

A bookmarklet to search blo.gs for the url of the current page in a popup (test it out by clicking, or drag the link to your Links/Personal Toolbar). If you are signed in at blo.gs, then it’s just one more click to add it to your favorites.

To make it easier for people to add your blog to their favorites, add a link to your page with the url that blo.gs lists next to your blog (assuming you aren’t in your own favorites: if you are, you’ll need to remove yourself and refresh to show the “add” link). If you want to save anyone with javascript enabled the trouble of hitting back, you can open the “add to favorites” window in a popup that will close after five seconds with:

<a href=”http://blo.gs/sub.php?id=3998&sub=0″ onclick=”pwin=window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘height=200, width=200’);setTimeout(‘pwin.close()’,5000);return false;”>add to blo.gs favorites</a>

For some reason, for me at least, Opera fails to send the cookie to make that work, and if you aren’t logged in at blo.gs you just get “unable to verify login” in the popup, but you can’t have everything. By the way, would you like to add me to your blo.gs favorites? I’m hanging on to #8 on the most watched list, but just barely.