Weekend Links
At work, we all browse the web quite a bit. When we find something really cool and think others should take a look at it, we put together an email with a long list of things we’ve found that day (or that weekend).
I’ve been compiling links like this now for a few years and thought I would try and start posting some of them. Later I’ll look into integrating my del.icio.us feed into my posts. To be honest, I haven’t decided if I really want to do that or if I want to have the feed on the side, outside of the main posts area (your preference on this?)
Anyways, here’s a bunch of cool links.
- Mac OS X Tips:
http://www.apple.com/pro/techniques/ -
Sith Abandon Ship shirt:
http://www.oddica.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=23 -
Sweet app for managing your bills (and it’s FREE)
http://www.mybillq.com -
Massive, Tangled Up Tubes! (by Senator Ted Stevens)
http://evhead.com/2006/07/massive-tangled-up-tubes.asp -
Click the first thing you see, you’ll see the results after you click
http://blog.outer-court.com/click/ -
Iconwerk develops Icons and symbols for applications and web design.
http://www.iconwerk.de/ -
Saturday in the Park with Friends:
http://drawn.ca/2006/07/10/saturday-in-the-park-with-friends/ -
A Proposal for a Safari Microformats plugin:
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/a-proposal-for-a-safari-microformats-plugin -
Django or Ruby on Rails: (something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit actually)
http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archives05/2006/07/django-or-ruby-on-rails -
Dilbert’s Ultimate Cubicle:
http://www.ideo.com/dilbert/ -
Life size Tetris:
http://organic.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/cratetetris.jpg -
User Experience Software:
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?364
Daniel Morrison Says:
A few years ago, Link Blogs were all the rage… I remember thinking they were cool and I subscribed to a couple.
Now we have del.icio.us (and competitors) that can function the same way. I can subscribe to your del.icio.us feed, you can pull it into your blog’s sidebar, and much more.
As a result, link blogs have gone away. The extra fun is that we get extra community data by data mining everyone’s social bookmarks.
But back to you: How would you integrate del.icio.us into your posts? One easy solution is to just integrate it into your blog template, and give people an easy way to subscribe to it. You could even use tagging on del.icio.us to only show a certain subset of URLs on the blog.
Alternatively, you could do some cool integration by tagging bookmarks with a post-specific tag (“post-XYZ”) and pull in any links for that post automatically at the bottom of the post.
Another method is to create a unified feed. I am toying this on my eternally incomplete, proof of concept site. I’m using Planet to join a bunch of my feeds. The nice thing is that you can subscribe to the single feed, or just pick and choose from each.
I don’t know if this is useful, but it is amusing to play with. One result already is that I’m writing descriptions differently for my bookmarks.