I think that I am well suited to a link blog. I read far too many feeds and often have only a little to write about on a topic so I bypass a full blog post on it.
I also didn’t find a good solution out there.
My requirements are:
- Trivial for me to tag things and put in a description (I do not just want to tag only, but want to give SOME context)
- Ties into the way I browse feeds and content (needs to fit into my browser/feed reader world)
- Be able to embed my list blog items on my normal blog
- Minimal initial work on my end else I will never do it
I thought about using shared items in Google Reader, but that doesn’t allow me to put my dumb thoughts into the mix, but does a lot of the other things (also not good for me when I am using NetNewsWire).
I also thought of using delicious and turning on the FeedBurner feature that throws out items. I always held back because:
- I don’t want everything that I tag to show up. You probably care even less about my local hospital website than my thoughts on tech.
- Do people really care? Some people that I subscribe to turned this feature on at first. I hated it. I didn’t care. I unsubscribed to some of them. Others like Dean Edwards are top notch.
As soon as private features were added to delicious I had the option to say ‘not shared’ for anything not interesting, and use public to actually mean ‘put it in the link blog’. This is a bit of a pain, as there are items that I would like to share with the delicious community, but don’t want on my link blog.
I also wish that delicious could hold a bit more of a description. It is pretty weak right now. Can you bump up the varchar? :)
It would be nice if FeedBurner had a tweak to their end. Ideally I would use a special tag (linkblog or whatever) to say “this is for the blog”. That would mean that I would be free to use delicious as it is intended and not put on my own meaning to public/private.
I should also make the feed let users choose whether they care or not. I am sorry, I got lazy and just turned it on. If you think my inane collection of links bundled up are too painful let me know.
Feedburner kindly “burned” 7 days worth and threw out a bunch of entries which made it look like I was an online nutter. We should be back to normal now (no more than one entry in a day).
