How I Create those Del.icio.us link posts
Down yonder in one of the del.icio.us link posts Randy asked how I set up those postings. I thought I'd blog the process if anyone is curious.
I created an RSS feed on a server. There isn't anything in it so it doesn't change. The goal was a feed that didn't change because all I was after was the daily del.icio.us summary.
Next, I created a Feedburner feed for that RSS file and used their Link Splicer tool to include a daily summary of my del.icio.us account.
Then I used R|Mail to subscribe to the feed and have it sent to my GMail account where I have a filter to send it to Bloggers mail in tool.
I suppose the GMail to Blogger isn't necessary as I could have R|Mail deliver to Blogger but I wanted to be able to stop the feed quickly to my blog if I made changes to my Feedburner feed. I've done that in the past and it seems that Feedburner will sometimes repost all the del.icio.us feeds if you edit the Feedburner feed at all. This way I just turn off the forwarding filter and can make all the adjustments I need without having to monkey with the R|Mail subscription or my Blogger template settings.
I have it sending all my posts from del.icio.us but I've thought about having it send just certain ones that I tag 'pub' or 'publish' or something like that. Haven't decided yet but it would be a nice way to keep using del.icio.us for all kinds of things and only have it feed my blog on items I think are blog worthy.
Why not just use the link splicer into my blog's current Feedburner feed? Because it only hits a part of my audience, the subscribers. While I'm a huge proponent of RSS the sad fact is that not many people are hip to it yet. This way both sets get it.
Technorati Tags : rss, blog, blogging, del.icio.us
This entry was posted on Saturday, October 15, 2005 at 10/15/2005 11:58:00 PM. 
5 Comments:
Wow, this is a very cool trick. You are obviously a very net savy user. Given your interest in the space, I thought you might like to check out www.blinklist.com. It is a new service that we just launched. If you have the time to play around with it, would love to hear your thoughts. Mike
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Mind Valley, at 10/16/2005 04:28:00 AM
Thanks Mike. TechCrunch did a profile on BlinkList a while back and I just haven't had a chance to test it out.
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Scott, at 10/16/2005 09:58:00 AM
Just to note here that del.icio.us DOES have support for posting to your blog, but it's kinda buggy as of yet
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Singpolyma, at 10/17/2005 05:00:00 AM
Follow this link to links to how to do this in other blogging software:
http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20060210220006
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Scott, at 2/11/2006 01:46:00 PM
The only snag on this is that both Rmail or Feedblitz embed a desubscribe disclaimer at the end of the email and that it goes into the post. Another snag is that the title is repeated twice. Any idea for workaround?
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Anonymous, at 9/13/2007 02:24:00 AM
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