Del.icio.us Integration And Hacking
Saturday, December 25, 2004
My traffic logs showed something interesting: looks like Mitch Wagner mentioned this here blog in his article explaining del.icio.us - welcome visitors from internetweek and desktoppipeline! I met Mitch at the San Diego webloggers brunch last week and our little group hit it off pretty well, with del.icio.us especially being a big topic of excitement. For those of you curious about how I used it to integrate the list of links on the right, I wish I could say it involved some kind of genius programming skills on my part, but no - it's a stunningly easy process and well-described by Jeff Veen. I followed Jeff's instructions step by step a few weeks ago and within five minutes, I had my own custom-tailored link drop on my blog.
I've been addicted to the power and simplicity of del.icio.us ever since, especially considering all of the interesting ways you can hack it up for your own purposes. People have been getting pretty novel with it - you can use it to categorize your blog posts, start a community of photography nuts, make a visual diagram of your interests, all kinds of nut job cool things and I'm sure this is all just the tip of the iceberg. Feel free to subscribe to this blog or even to my del.icio.us page itself to see what else I dig up as I play with it even more.
One caveat for you web standards Nazis like me: RSS Digest's javascript can give hiccups to validators. I was using tinyurl to get around that and hide all the ampersand-encoded nonsense, but I think their service has been down this week. So including del.icio.us feeds with the javascript version of the method above has this one minor drawback, the only one I've seen so far. The only reason I'm not using the (probably cleaner) php version is because my server won't see an index.php as the default file in a web directory.