Blogs Tired, Bookmarks Wired?
Interesting little post from Jason Calacanis, who wrote:
"TIRED: Subscribing to Fred's blog: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/
WIRED: Subscribing to Fred's Del.icio.us feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/fredwilson
Note: On Bloglines Fred has 383 subscribers to his blog and 9 to his del.icio.us RSS feed... I prefer to read what Fred is *considering* blogging about :-)
Question: What's more interesting to you, a person's bookmarks or a person's blog?"
At least one person has said the same thing about my blog and del.icio.us feed, so this isn't to call out Fred's blog. In fact I read his blog avidly.
Last night I was IMing with a friend and we talked about my previous post The Second Coming of Content and RSS Feeds. Apparently it put my friend to sleep. I retorted that it is a profound post (I was trying to be witty, but I also believe it). OK the fact of the matter is, it is a post that takes time to absorb and a lot of people would consider it boring. Whereas my del.icio.us links are quick one-liners that are easy to absorb, although they don't have any depth. Apart from the odd haiku moment perhaps.
Another thing, have you noticed how few people add notes to their del.icio.us feeds? In their new re-design, del.icio.us has added more room for notes. Which is great for people like me, but I wonder why more people don't add at least one line of comment to their 'bookmarks'. Maybe because most people consider them actual bookmarks and not a mini-blog. Hmmm.
Ideally I want to insert my del.icio.us links into Read/WriteWeb, as a daily post. I've tried the stupidly named and poorly designed "add a new thingy" feature on del.icio.us before, but it wasn't good enough. How about fixing that up del.icio.us? Or what about Feedburner doing it? Or 43Things? Somebody help me add my del.icio.us links to my blog as a daily and chronological post :-)
Update: here are the things I want...
- a daily digest of my del.icio.us links added to my blog, both on the site and in my main R/WW RSS feed.
- I want to customize the heading of the daily digest (e.g. Richard's Web 2.0 Links).
- I want to select only certain tags to put in the digest - e.g. in my case I'd select http://del.icio.us/ricmac/web2.0
- I'd like the option of rolling a bunch of different feeds into my daily digest. e.g. del.icio.us web 2.0 tag, a Flickr feed, a 43Things feed.
- I want the daily digest to be inserted into my main R/WW content stream on the site - i.e. chronological and not a separate page or in the gutter block. The whole point here is that I want to integrate various feeds in my main content, chronologically.
So LazyWeb, I invoke thee. Please develop the above. Or maybe I'll have to do a Jason Kottke and develop it myself. But I don't really want to muck around with magpierss and all that. Besides, this would be a great feature for a lot of blogs.
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Feedburner already allows you to include *all* of your del.icio.us or furl.net daily feed.
I can see that including only a tag or having more options could be useful. But the fact is the thing you need already exists.
Posted by: Marius Popescu | November 22, 2005 1:58 PM
No, that's *not* what I'm looking for Marius. All of del.icio.us, Feedburner and 43Things do *part* of what I need, but none of them gives me all the things in my list. Which is why I wrote it.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | November 22, 2005 2:06 PM
I myself have been looking for a system that does just that, and found that feedburner comes the closest (at least as far as your RSS goes), but doesn't offer support for specific tags. I don't think there is a system out there that does everything you and I want it too *yet*.
Posted by: Mark Allen | November 22, 2005 3:47 PM
Close to what you want is reblog.org.
Posted by: David Evans | November 22, 2005 3:58 PM
Hey Richard,
Who knows you might find Magpie fun! :)
If you were running WordPress you could use the excellent FeedWordPress. Using MT definitely raise the bar as a hack would have to be not only RSS aware, but BlogAPI (mucking with the db directly is a bit gross).
Unless of course the new dynamic PHP stuff, includes an implementation of the Entry object?
You might check w/ Tim Appnel, RSS+MT sounds right up his alley.
Posted by: kellan | November 22, 2005 4:21 PM
We've got an enhanced blog-posting thingy coming shortly.
Posted by: joshua | November 22, 2005 7:04 PM
We've got an enhanced blog-posting thingy coming shortly.
Posted by: joshua | November 22, 2005 7:04 PM
I pull all my del.icio.us links into a seperate blog and then pull them all together with the MTMultiBlog plugin. I've explained the whole process here (http://www.noahbrier.com/archives/2005/07/including_delic.php). It's not perfect, but it works.
Posted by: Noah Brier | November 22, 2005 8:04 PM
Hi Richard - I must admit - more and more I find myself subscribing to people's Delicious accounts. Your's is also on my list ;-)
What I'd like is to have some way of removing delicious duplicates. So say if 18 delicious feeds that I subscribe to point to the same site, then I only want to see it appear the once.
Perhaps Joshua could provide me with an Uber RSS feed that brings all my subscribed delicious feeds it one RSS feed and trims them down accordingly?
Posted by: Dave Killeen | November 23, 2005 6:13 AM
Great idea Dave!
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Looks like Joshua from del.icio.us is onto it. I might play around with some of the other ideas, if I get time.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | November 23, 2005 2:05 PM
What about subscribing to their Quimble feeds?
Posted by: Topper | November 26, 2005 5:33 PM
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Posted by: Richard MacManus | November 27, 2005 8:59 PM
Have you looked at Suprglu.com? You could then cut and paste your delicious post. Not automagic, but a step in that direction.
SuprGlu is about bringing the pieces of your web content together into one central place for you, your friends, and maybe even your friends to-be.
http://russell.suprglu.com/
Posted by: Russell | November 28, 2005 5:13 PM
Hello Richard,
You write:
"Another thing, have you noticed how few people add notes to their del.icio.us feeds? In their new re-design, del.icio.us has added more room for notes. Which is great for people like me, but I wonder why more people don't add at least one line of comment to their 'bookmarks'. Maybe because most people consider them actual bookmarks and not a mini-blog. Hmmm."
Actually, I decided a few weeks ago to use del.icio.us notes, mainly to be able to have a linkroll on my blog. Since I'm one of your faithful readers, I also thought about considering del.icio.us as a 'mini-blog' and wrote some quite long notes... I noticed later that they had been truncated...
So del.icio.us leaves more room with its new design than it did, but really not much. Rather than a mini-blog, I'd speak of a tiny-blog or a micro-blog ;-)
Thanks again for your great work!
Posted by: Benoit Lacherez | December 12, 2005 1:19 AM
For me personal blog is more interesting.
Posted by: Helen | December 16, 2005 3:05 PM