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What I'm reading...

There are a whole bunch of interesting posts / stuff I find on the net that I bookmark on del.icio.us (at least, I think they are interesting). Over the years I've been experimenting with different ways of sharing these with you. My most recent solution has been to include my del.icio.us links within my feed as seperate items. The problem with this approach is I haven't had a permalinked way of publishing these to my blog with a way to easily edit prior to publishing...also, having the daily summaries del.icio.us format in a feed is lame.

So I going to try something new. Instead of having the daily del.icio.us link summaries published as RSS items within my Feedburner feed, I'm going to publish these as blog posts. It should make things more economical from the consumption point of view (I don't think the "Links for 2008-01-20 [del.icio.us]" blah blah feed item titles are pretty). To do this, I have:

  • disabled the del.icio.us feed syndication from Feedburner (the Link Splicer)
  • have installed Josh Leggard's Insert Feed Content plugin for Windows Live Writer - this lets me populate a draft blog post with the latest items from any feed (my del.icio.us feed in this case - I'll still use the service for bookmarking) that I can then include / edit / add more commentary before I post to my blog - along with a custom post title.

Better me thinks. I like Harry Pierson's and Assaf's Labnotes style of providing links with commentary...over time I hope to emulate these.

So here goes - this first effort will be larger than future posts like this...shorter in the future.

OpenID - Getting Traction

Cool UI / Vizualization and Useful Bits

SaaS Stuff

Developer Cults and Dataheads

Uncategorizable But Good.

  • Lessons from Star Wars
    Johnnie Moor's pointer: "Stephen Anderson shares his presentation about what designers can learn from the making of Star Wars."

Comments

TrackBack said:

Windows Live Writer is arguably one of the coolest apps that Microsoft has...

# January 31, 2008 10:34 AM

josh ledgard said:

Hey, I just noticed this.  Let me know if you have any suggestions for the live writer plug-in. I'm planning on doing another round of spare time coding on this next week.

# January 31, 2008 5:08 PM

alexbarnett said:

Hi Josh - thanks for stopping by. a couple of things perhaps:

1. Bug - In the case of pulling down the del.icio.us links there seems to be some inconsistency in the way it pulls down the notes - sometimes is has the first couple of words, sometimes all the words. No discernable pattern here I can see.

2. Feature - as a config setting, allow user to set number or items pulled down (from 1 to all)

Alex.

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