Link Roundup

Obama for Peace: Turn Hope into Action
Help our President live up to his promises and the prize with which he has already been honored.
Why can’t women’s clothing tell us the truth about our bodies
50 Ways to Never Waste Food Again : Planet Green
Some great tips for those of us trying to be frugal.
How to Talk to Your 43 year-old Son When He’s Only 13
When you speak to your children today, you are also speaking to every day of their future selves. Parenting is outside of time. Take care and take heart in that.
PeaceSigns
A very good summary of different Christian views of peace. The author admits they are generalizations but they are a good start.
PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT – (37signals)
Hilarious!
Oh, FriendFeed is now Facebook’s “official” R&D department!
I've loved FriendFeed for a long time and I've enjoyed Facebook some recently but I am NOT excited about this deal.
October 18, 2009 | Filed Under Links | Comments 

del.icio.us, furl, my linkblog etc.

I’ve been fooling around with how to post links to my linkblog and del.icio.us for a while now. I posted about this three times in July (14th, 23rd, 31st) while I was playing with the best setup for me.Since then, I have toyed with a few different tools for managing this. In September, I developed a solution that I liked. I wrote a toolbar button which, when clicked, would take the info from the page I was on and post to my linkblog using a combination of builtin WordPress code and my own code from 7/14 and then post to deli.icio.us and redirect me to deli.icio.us “done” message. Aside from the occassional unescaped character, it worked beautifully for a while, and I liked it.Recently, I noticed that the links were not posting to my blog (I know some of you don’t understand why I even want this – that’s okay). After messing with it for a few minutes I decided to just do things another way. I wrote another toolbar button that would post to my linkblog using builtin WordPress functionality and popup (in a tab, of course) the del.icio.us post form with the tags populated. I copy the tags, submit to del.icio.us, paste my tags into WordPress, and submit. Quick and easy enough for me.If you use FireFox and WordPress, you can drag this link — Post Link to your toolbar.Now, edit the code as follows – replace DELICIOUSUSERNAME with your del.ici.us username and replace WORDPRESSURL with your wordpress blog URL.

November 26, 2005 | Filed Under Fun | Comments 

More About Links

I haven’t posted too many links the last couple days. I have a bunch of guitar links to post – like I said before, my links come in waves :) , but I’m not sure I want to post them all. Some of them generate popups. I have nothing against the responsible use of popups, mind you. Some sites rely on them for revenue. I used them myself on the first two web projects I created (here and here – Both are under different management now.), but I don’t like the way some publishers use them.Anyway, I did a search Read more

July 31, 2005 | Filed Under Fun | Comments 

Link Managers

I’ve been using Furl and del.icio.us for some time now. I use them in combination much like recommended by Amy Gahran and Saurier Duval. I used de.lirio.us instead of del.icio.us at first, but have moved to del.icio.us. It’s been more reliable and I like the to be able to grab my links via the api. I post them to my link blog using a daily cron job.

About a month ago, I ran into this post by Michael Wexler 4/28/2004 (who hates tags) comparing some other services. I decided to search for more info and see if I had missed a better site. I found a good list by Clay Shirky, and a great set of reviews by Kossatsch (version 2, version 3, and pdf chart). I’ve played with most of these sites over the last month and I’ve decided to stick with the system I’ve been using.

I’ve had fun though, and did some interesting reading about tags, tag literacy, folksonomies and controlled vocabularies.

July 23, 2005 | Filed Under Fun | Comments 

My Link Blog

A while back I toyed with de.lirio.us for my link blog. I pulled the feed and transformed it into html. I used the html from my blog so it would have the same look. I was becoming less satisfied with de.lirio.us and started itching to use del.icio.us instead. I thought I could pull the feed and post each item to a real wordpress blog by dropping the data into the database. My solution is not pretty, but it works. I run a cron job daily to do the ‘pull and post.’I like it. I’ve poste the code in case you’re interested. Read more

July 14, 2005 | Filed Under Fun | Comments