Site note

Posted by Rob Walker on June 17, 2007
Posted Under: Uncategorized

Regular readers may have noticed that a few weeks ago I started adding del.icio.us links to the site in the form of a daily post. I’m a big fan of del.icio.us, but I started using it before this site really existed, and always thought of it as something useful for organizing my own research, and didn’t give a lot of thought to whether there might be any value (to you, I mean) in “sharing” my links.

Of course I saw that other people were posting ther del.icio.us links, and realized that I enjoyed seeing them. So I finally got around to enabling the “daily blog posting” feature.
However, I don’t like the way the daily del.icio.us post looks. So I’ve turned that off in favor of the “link rolls” feature, which means that my del.icio.us links now show up in the sidebar, and update constantly as I add things. I think is both more useful, and a lot better looking.

The downside of this is people who read Murketing.com via RSS readers won’t see those links any more (unless of course they click through to the actual site and look at the sidebar). I’m not sure, right now, how to resolve that. I’ve noticed that We Make Money Not Art somehow has del.icio.us links in its RSS feed, and in its link roll, but not in the body of the main blog itself. I think that’s the ideal scenario.

There’s no tech staff or even a clever intern here at Murketing HQ, it’s just me, and for a variety of reasons (the biggies being: more pressing things to attend to; impatience; and a disinterest in either reading jargon-filled directions or having any real understanding of coding), I’m very slow and clumsy when it comes to figuring this stuff out. So I tend not to do detailed updates about every little trial-and-error tweak.

But in this case I thought I’d let you know: del.icio.us links in the sidebar if you want to see them.

Further diversion may be found at MKTG Tumblr, and the Consumed Facebook page.

Reader Comments

Funny. I was just struggling with the same issue. The solution I came up with was to use Feedburner’s “Link Splicer” feature, which adds a daily digest of your delicious links to your feed. (With a sort of unlovely headline, but what can you do?) But then I was already using Feedburner. You’d have to convert or add a Feedburner feed and advertise it as the one that has the sidebar links in it. Another option that WordPress jockeys out there might have some ideas about is to publish your delicious links — the way you were doing it before — to a category that publishes to the feed but not to the blog. I’m curious how other people solved this, so I’ll be watching this thread.

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Written By Jim Hanas on June 17th, 2007 @ 9:26 am

That’s interesting, thanks. I’d noticed that We Make Money Not Art uses Feedburner, and started to look into that, but got hung up on whether it would really be worth the hassle. Maybe it is.

I have no idea if there is a way to publish to the feed but not the blog, but as I guess I indicated, I’m not exactly an expert.

And as you have correctly deduced, this post was part announcement, and part cry for help. We’ll see if others chime in… Thanks again…

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Written By murketing on June 18th, 2007 @ 7:43 am

Blackrimglasses.org uses FeedBurner to publish links exactly as you describe. Also, I’m sure Yahoo Pipes can do the job although I found it a bit complicated.

#3 
Written By dave on June 18th, 2007 @ 4:54 pm

oops, should be blackrimglasses.com

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Written By dave on June 18th, 2007 @ 5:32 pm

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