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Delicious Links – 20 links – tools, gamers, workhacks, code, links

Posted in Best of Feeds, Technology by engtech on March 16, 2008

This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together for my blog on Internet Duct Tape.

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[BITTORRENT] Dutch University Uses BitTorrent to Update Workstations, torrentfreak.com, via:l33t.reddit.com
- Pretty cool. Then when from 20 servers and 4 days to update clients to 2 servers and 4 hours to update clients.
- (bittorrent, 15 saves, 22 inbound links, diggs)
[BLOGGING] 17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You, informationweek.com, via:doshdosh.com
- This should be titled “WELCOME TO THE INTERNETS”. Mandatory reading for understanding linking. It gets bonus points because the article doesn’t follow its own rules.
- (blogging, tips, Linkbait, links, 54 inbound links)
[CODE] insomnia and productivity, sob.apotheon.org
- hack mode
- (code, programming, 2 saves, 3 inbound links)
[FRIENDFEED] Elite Bloggers Joining FriendFeed In Droves, louisgray.com
- List of tech bloggers who are on friendfeed
- (friendfeed, blogging, lifestreaming, 15 saves, 50 inbound links, 2 diggs)
[GAMERS] Animal Crossing Is Tragic, animalcrossingtragedy.ytmnd.com
- Sad little tale of a gamer who shared Animal Crossing with his/her dying mother.
- (animalcrossing, gamers, 15 saves, diggs)
[GAMERS] The Co-op Gaming Bill of Rights, ozymandias.com
- Co-op gaming can be a ghetto on a lot of platforms. I’d love for more games to adopt these.
- (gamers, xbox360, 2 saves, 12 inbound links, 4 diggs)
[GAMERS] Warlords Online, warlords-online.com, via:lazycoder.com
- Online MPORG based on Puzzle Quest
- (gamers, puzzlequest, 15 saves, 2 inbound links)
[LINKS] Ten Sites for Finding Wonderful Things, readwriteweb.com, via:twitter.com
- Some suggestions for ‘best of the weird web’
- (links, fun, 15 saves, 20 inbound links, 649 diggs)
[OPENID] Zero Sign On – 1 better or Infinitely better than Single Sign On?, drnicwilliams.com
- How to use OpenID certificates so that you NEVER have to log in to any site that supports OpenID.
- (openid, authentication, certificates, firefox, 15 saves, 47 inbound links, 7 diggs)
[TECH] The real reason I left my career in tech, backinskinnyjeans.com
- What women have to deal with being in the hightech workplace
- (tech, women, 8 saves, 10 inbound links, 34 diggs)
[TWITTER] 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe, flowingdata.com
- Some cool examples of visualizing data
- (twitter, visualization, tools, 15 saves, 94 inbound links, 12 diggs)
[TWITTER] Need help managing your Twitter Karma?, dossy.org, via:experiencecurve.com
- Something I’ve been complaining about. A better Twitter followers manager. Needs more info about the followees though.
- (twitter, mashup, 15 saves, 10 inbound links, 185 diggs)
[WEBDESIGN] 20 Websites That Made Me A Better Web Developer, sixrevisions.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- List of webdesign related websites. Most are familiar.
- (webdesign, development, design, 15 saves, 65 inbound links, 3621 diggs)
[WEBDESIGN] Administrative Debris, tomayko.com
- Content is everything… then why do we display so much stuff that isn’t content?
- (design, tufte, usability, 15 saves, 8 inbound links)
[WEBDESIGN] IE App Compat VHD, microsoft.com
- Virtual machine images of different versions of Internet Explorer so that you can test a website on multiple versions of the same web browser.
- (windows, virtualization, testing, 3 saves, 100 inbound links)
[WEBHACKS] Down for everyone or just me?, downforeveryoneorjustme.com
- Find out if a website is unreachable for the entire net or just your machine
- (tools, internet, network, 15 saves, 100 inbound links, 8 diggs)
[WEBSAVVY] the Awesome Highlighter – be nice, highlight, awesomehighlighter.com
- note to my parents: please use this all the time so I have some clue why you sent me that web page in an email.
- (tools, highlighter, web2.0, sharing, 15 saves, 100 inbound links, 29 diggs)
[WORKHACKS] 10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity, matthewpaulmoore.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Good advice, even if none of is groundbreaking.
- (advice, workhacks, code, programming, 15 saves, 28 inbound links, 5 diggs)
[WORKHACKS] 9 Simple Strategies to Getting Things Done At Work, lyved.com
- Tricks for being more productive in the office
- (productivity, lifehacks, workhacks, 15 saves, 12 inbound links, 679 diggs)
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Blog Tip: Create a Link Post in 3 Seconds

Posted in Becoming a Better Blogger, Delicious, Technology, Yahoo Pipes by engtech on October 03, 2007

This is the successor to my post on how to build a weekly digest in 3 seconds.

One question I’m frequently asked is “how do you build those Best of Feeds weekly links?” The way I do it is pretty complicated, but I’ve found a much simpler solution that I want to share with you all. Building a list of links is something every blogger does at one time or another, and it doesn’t have to be hard.

Why Create a Link Post?

Link posts are great ways to share and acknowledge interesting links. Linking to other blogs is what makes the blogosphere tick. If you don’t routinely read and link to other bloggers then your using your blog as a one-way soapbox instead of as a medium for sparking communication and building relationships.

Link posts can be used for a variety of reasons:

Weekly Round-up
List of resources about a subject
List of group writing participants
List of contest participants

Here are some more tips from the experts on why create a link post

Step #1: Use Delicious to Save Links

I’m a delicious power user and it’s my favourite site for bookmarking interesting links. It integrates nicely with whatever web browser you are using.

This video explains how to use Delicious to bookmark sites

Delicious already comes with a way of posting a daily link report, but I don’t like it because I feel like I’m spamming my regular readers if my blog is filled with “links for 2007-10-02” instead of stuff I wrote myself. I much prefer posting once a week, or having full control over when I post my list of links.

But the delicious tagging system is so useful for building a list of links around a specific subject, and for attaching short descriptions around each link. For instance, I used the ‘project3’ tag when I was picking out my favorite posts from the Project 3 group writing project on Daily Blog Tips.

Delicious also integrates nicely into your web browser, no matter what it might be.

*new* firefox bookmarks extension
firefox extension *this is the one I use*
internet explorer buttons
bookmarklet buttons for any browser

Step #2: Use Delicious Link Builder

I’ve created a Yahoo Pipe that builds a list of your del.icio.us links that you can cut-and-paste into a blog post.

Put in your delicious username
Optional: Filter your links by a tag
Optional: Filter your links by date
Optional: Limit the number of links (maximum is 31, this is a limit from del.icio.us)
Click ‘Run Pipe‘
Cut-and-paste the results into a blog post using your WYSIWYG editor

The Results

This is an example of a list from my delicious saved bookmarks.

[CODE] Software Is Hard
- *Excellent* article about software estimation and Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code
[ESTIMATION] Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics
- Nothing new, but good round-up for people who have trouble estimating.
[LIFEHACKS] The Printable CEO
- Collection of PDFs for task/hour tracking.
[RAILS] Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications
- Free e-book for next 60 days. Probably not as good as Agile Web Development.
[WORKHACKS] Cover Your Butt At Work with Thorough Notes
- If you have to CYA that much then you might want to say cya to that job. But there is a lot of be said for indoctrinating the people around you that you are coordinated and correct because everything is tracked.

That’s all there is to it. Bookmark web pages with delicious, then go into Delicious Link Builder when you want to make a list of them.

You can start by bookmarking this post. :)

Advanced Users – Pretty Cut-n-Paste

I use a Greasemonkey script in Firefox to make the output of Yahoo Pipes a little bit nicer.

Advanced Users – Clone Your Own Pipe

If you’re logged into Yahoo then you’ll have the option to ‘clone’ my Pipe (Delicious Links Builder). This means you have your own copy of it and you can change the default values for the fields to whatever you want, eg: always default to your username, and to 7 days worth of links.