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Making use of del.icio.us

If you are vis­it­ing my blog instead on using the RSS feeds, you might have noticed a couple of addi­tions to the side­bar, Worth Read­ing Recom­men­ded and Com­men­ted On. This came about after read­ing a post over at Dexagogo titled
Using del.icio.us to track my blog comments

Mod­i­fied Andrew’s javas­cript book­mark­let, found the del.icio.us javas­cript feed details and it was dead easy to gen­er­ate two feeds from del.icio.us, Worth Read­ing which includes the notes field from del.icio.us so I can add my thoughts to links I think should be shared and Com­men­ted On a simple list of the last few com­ments I made.

The two book­mark­lets, sit­ting in my book­marks tool­bar folder, mak­ing it so easy to tag a page I com­men­ted on, or tag a page to share. Even have an Worth Read­ing feed

Only down­side is that I was look­ing to move from del.icio.us to simpy because simpy tag’s are comma delim­ited, not space delim­ited as del.icio.us. Unfor­tu­nately if was five minutes to do this with del.icio.us and a lot longer with simpy. Still all is not lost I will use simpy to backup my del.icio.us book­marks as simpy has a syn­chron­iz­a­tion with del.icio.us fea­ture, just in case dis­aster strikes or I learn how to use simpy.

Update 13 Janu­ary looks like there is a prob­lem at del.icio.us with their javas­cript feeds. I have done a num­ber of updates in the last 48 hours and while they appear in my del.icio.us RSS feed, they do not appear in my del.icio.us javas­cript feed.

Update 15 Janu­ary, the prob­lem appears to be cach­ing of the javas­cript feed from del.icio.us, if I look at: < a href=“http://del.icio.us/feeds/json/nickcow/blogit?count=5″>http://del.icio.us/feeds/json/nickcow/blogit?count=5 I see only one entry, yet if I change the 5 to a 4 http://del.icio.us/feeds/json/nickcow/blogit?count=4 I see all my recent entries. Time to think of a plan B.

Update 8 Feb­ru­ary: the cach­ing prob­lem seems to of been resolved, don’t know what or where, but it has been run­ning smoothly for more than a week now.

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3 Responses to “Making use of del.icio.us”

  1. Otis Gospodnetic Says:
    January 9th, 2006 at 9:15 am

    Hi Nick,
    Just to make sure I under­stand the essence here — you want to save+tag blog posts that you left com­ments on, right?

    That should be SUPER easy with Simpy!
    I would simply modify this book­mark­let.

    Let me try modi­fy­ing it right here…

    javascript:q=location.href;e = ”+ (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text);p=document.title;window.location.href=‘http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAddSave.do?.doneURI=’+encodeURIComponent(q)+&href=’+escape(q)+’&title=’+encodeURIComponent℗+’&accessType=1&tags=SELF&note=’+encodeURIComponent(e).replace(/ /g, ‘+’);

    There, I _think_ that’s all.
    I simply added “&tags=SELF” towards the end of the book­mark­let, and removed the old “&tags=.…” bit.

    Now, just save this book­mark­let like any other book­mark­let.
    When you leave a com­ment on a blog simply click on the book­mark­let in your browser, and the cur­rent page will be saved and tagged with the tag “SELF”.
    You will never even leave the page you are on! (i.e. no need to come to Simpy)

    Easy.
    Please let me know if you need any help or the above doesn’t work.

  2. nick Says:
    January 9th, 2006 at 11:13 pm

    Otis

    There two parts to what I was look­ing at:

    1. A book­mark­let that would let me save and tag blog posts I left com­ments on.
    2. A way of dis­play­ing the tagged blog posts on the home page of my blog.

    Your book­mark­let (which did not work for me) is only the first part, the second part is get­ting the inform­a­tion out of the Simpy API to dis­play. It would not be hard and if I get the chance I will do it. But it will take me time, unlike the del.icio.us solu­tion, which was pre­packed and ready to use.

    I intend to keep using Simpy and del.icio.us, I love the comma delim­ited tags in Simpy and the sync with del.icio.us, but at the moment there are more extras for del.icio.us. And after the recent Bloglines adven­tures I will make use of two good ser­vices rather than one.

  3. Otis Gospodnetic Says:
    January 10th, 2006 at 3:00 am

    Hi Nick,

    Aha, 2 things, I only picked up on the first one. If you have time, let me know what didn’t work with the book­mark­let. As for 2, if you do it, please let me know, so I can point to it on Simpy’s blog and mail­ing list(s). If you don’t do it, I will. (a bit of JavaS­cript that you can embed in the page)

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