I’m helping Nick Bradbury spread the word a Max It Out, a Nashville charity event on February 3rd inspired by five-year-old Max Royka. Max contracted bacterial meningitis when he was six weeks old, and every year his parents hold this event to raise money for meningitis research. Max’s parents are good friends of Nick’s, and last week they had to rush Max to the hospital. According to Nick, they’re concerned not only about their son, but also about their charity event. They need to sell more tickets, but they can’t focus on that while their son is in the hospital. So Nick asked for our help in letting other Nashvillians know about this great event, which will be held on February 3rd (less than a week away!). Nick is a sponsor of the event and says it’s a good time for a worthy charity.
[Warning: the following post will be of little interest to those who do not use a del.icio.us feature called the "thingy" that groups a day's worth of bookmarked URLs into one blog post.]
I am obsessed with link-crediting and am far from being an A-List blogger (perhaps a B-) so his complaint was directed to others. However, Robert’s worm-can-opening reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to do — find a way to add credit-links for people who help me find things I add to the link blog I call my “sidebar blog” which is also aggregated into one post per day on the rexblog. Robert’s post inspired me to try something I’ve been meaning to do — to test using HTML code with the del.icio.us feature called the “thingy” that I use to automate a daily post to the rexblog of all the links added to my del.icio.us account during the previous 24 hours. (Here’s a “how-to” on using the del.icio.us “thingy” feature.)
I like sharing those random bookmarked links, however, I’ve felt guilty at times for not including a link to the source of my discovery. Because using HTML in the comments of a del.icio.us post is not supported when viewed on a del.icio.us account page, I never considered using HTML when posting to del.icio.us.
Somewhere along the way (I’m slow on these things, sometimes) it occurred to me that I’m primarily using del.icio.us as a utility content management hack for a component of this blog, so why not go ahead and use HTML tags in the bookmark comments — the code would likely be displayed correctly when parsed and posted on this blog.
Yesterday, I added HTML into the one link added to my delicious account and, sure-enough, when the “links for 2007-01-27” post hit my blog, the “via: scripting.com” was nicely displayed in the posting.
One problem with this: I often click open sites while browsing my newsreader. I have my NetNewsWire preferences set up to open each link I click onto in a new browser tab for later viewing (I was inspired to use this method by Rex Sorgatz, by the way). Often, when I actually get around to viewing those pages, I have forgotten who led me to a specific one. Thus, I don’t always remember who I should credit. But, at least I’ll try.
[Addendum: I can't find a link to where I explain how I use del.icio.us to power the sidebar posts, however, since this is a post about credit links, I'm sure Matt McAlister deserves some of the credit and Patrick Ragsdale deserves the rest. When I set up my "sidebar blog," I don't believe del.icio.us had its "linkroll" widget in place (or as customizable as I wanted). If I were doing it now, I'd use it instead of our RSS/magpie hack. If you're a del.icio.us user and you want to have a "link roll," you can learn about it in the "settings" section. Also, HTML code will work when it hits your blog, like this:
Actually, now that I've seen it displayed on the rexblog, after a little CSS tweaking, I'm going to replace the current sidebar hack with this "link roll" widget.]
As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader-produced encyclopedia. [via: scripting.com]
I’m helping Nick Bradbury spread the word a Max It Out, a Nashville charity event on February 3rd inspired by five-year-old Max Royka. Max contracted bacterial meningitis when he was six weeks old, and every year his parents hold this event to raise money for meningitis research. Max’s parents are good friends of Nick’s, and last week they had to rush Max to the hospital. According to Nick, they’re concerned not only about their son, but also about their charity event. They need to sell more tickets, but they can’t focus on that while their son is in the hospital. So Nick asked for our help in letting other Nashvillians know about this great event, which will be held on February 3rd (less than a week away!). Nick is a sponsor of the event and says it’s a good time for a worthy charity.
I like sharing those random bookmarked links, however, I’ve felt guilty at times for not including a link to the source of my discovery. Because using HTML in the comments of a del.icio.us post is not supported when viewed on a del.icio.us account page, I never considered using HTML when posting to del.icio.us.
