<!--begin post to del.icio.us-->
[<a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>
&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>" target="_blank">to Del.icio.us</a>]
<!--end post to del.icio.us-->
To make space for the link, I've switched my permalink back to the timestamp, after crowing in March about how I'd moved it. Oh, well!!
Have fun posting Freshblog stuff to del.icio.us!!
Update 7/7: Have amended the link code to include my blog title in the post title that appears when you click the link. The original bookmarklet set it up that way, & I like the idea of the site's name going out on my posts. Here's that code:
<!--begin post to del.icio.us-->
[<a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>
&title=<$BlogTitle$>: <$BlogItemTitle$>" target="_blank">to Del.icio.us</a>]
<!--end post to del.icio.us-->
Update 7/25: After finding one of my posts had been Furled, I figured I should add a one-click link for those folks too, so here it is. Thanks to Improbulus at A Consuming Experience for the code. Have fun Furling!!
Update 8/11: See other posts in Blogger Hacks: The Series
Update 11/05: Have added the "post to blinklist" link to Freshblog too.
Final Update 1/28/06: Have upgraded to link to 6 social bookmarking services and use icons for the links.
May I ask you also, since you're the authority on blogging, how come I can't see all the web pages/blogs that link to my site on Technorati? Would you know? Did you hear about it?
It seems telepathy, or a normal statistical probability, was in the works here.
I left you three comments yesterday only to find out later that you left me one as well, updating me about the categories.
So thanks for the update, that was mighty kind of you :)
Melly
It's really frustrating though. I know for example that you have a post that links to me and I don't see it on a technorati search (and I know of at least one other link from a bonified Blogger blog that doesn't show up).
And it's not like I have that many links. Each and every one of them counts!
I'm just ranting. Hope you don't mind. I'll stop now, I promise.
Thanks for the ideas - I've been looking to implement categories on my blog for a while and your post helped a lot.
I'm new to del.icio.us but I noticed that I can get the link to "pick up" the tags from the post and pre-populate their form. This means I only have to enter the tags once (when I write the blog).
Check it out here (still experimenting, but look for "tag"):
http://ghill.customer.netspace.net.au/vent/vent.html
I pass the tags in using the blogger link hack, but use javascript inside the post to mark them up, instead of the bookmarklet.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
-Greg.
http://www.bloggerforum.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7042&forum=1&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&start=10
It's also got how I list the categories like the archives.
Cheers,
-Greg.
Just an update on the above approach:
I've put the clunky javascript into an external file, and added some more functionality: the list of categories in the sidebar is dynamically generated each day, along with counts and a reverse sort.
So, instead of a static list of categories as above, the drop list gives you the current listing eg:
politics (17)
religion (12)
sport (9)
...
music (3)
Check it out on my vent blog.
I have a batch file that, once a day, scrapes my del.icio.us page for blog posts, updates the external javascript and then ftps it onto my server.
The next step is to include the counts under each post too eg:
[ sex (7) death (11) poetry (3) ]
Feel free to use these ideas and scripts. (It should be fairly straightforward to reverse-engineer what's happening from my page source, but I'll try to package it up nicely soon.)
Cheers,
-Greg.
For an alternate view, compare these two blogs:
Vent - Letters to the Editor
Speccy - AFL Player Spectator
Same backend, just writes out different html.
Cheers,
-Greg.
You can see it here if you want to, if you'd rather I didn't use your code or whatever give me a shout.
http://nakedsexmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogger-tags-and-categories-how-to.html
my blog address is onebrothasmind.blogspot.com
This is a learning experiience for me.
Thank you
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Is there something simple I'm missing somewhere in my template or is there an update to your code for the new version of Blogger? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated...thanks!
Yes, this is an old post! This morphed into FreshTags, which is still in use by some. However, it was primarily meant to overcome a Blogger limitation (lack of categories) that is now addressed.
For FreshTags under new Blogger, check out Singpolyma's implementation.