Robert Scoble had
this post yesterday that inspired me to lookinto Bloglines citations. It's really pretty cool. If you read blogs via Bloglines, if the post you are reading has been linked to by others you'll see "# References" like this:
So I hacked up the Blogger template a bit and below is the code you need if you want to put a link to Bloglines that shows who is referencing your posts. Additionally, via alt and title tags it provides hover help that shows what the link will do. You can try the link on my blog to see what it does. Of course, no one links to me so it really isn't a good test but you'll get the idea.
This is just a basic URL and doesn't give users any idea if there actually are links so it isn't quite like the Bloglines tool but getting closer. Anyone know if it's possible to do that? Maybe the Bloglines API or something might work. If anyone has an idea, let me know. It would have to be javascript because Blogger doesn't do PHP and javascript would be the most portable. Additionally, if people know how to hack other templates like Wordpress and others, link in to this post or comment here.
Here is the code snippet for your Blogger template. I put mine down in the sections by comments:
[a href="http://www.bloglines.com/citations?url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>" title="References to <$BlogItemTitle$>" alt="References to <$BlogItemTitle$>">References to this article[/a>
Note, change the "["s to "<"s
