• Reported by Nate

Update 2: This new section now re-titled "Link Blog"

Update: Matt from Squarewithin writes with a correction. Apparently the primary social function (see who else linked to something) can be added with a minor modification to his script. Matt writes

"If you just want to see who else has posted the same url, its not hard to add that feature to the script. Basically, when creating the entry, just add the line:
$entry->excerpt ( \'http://del.icio.us/\' . $posts->find(\'@hash\') );

And then use the MTEntryExcerpt tag to show the link to that url."

I just added a new section to this website, for lack of a simpler name I'm calling it just "links". You should see it in the main navigation, or you can get to it at http://web-graphics.com/links/. After listening to helpful reader feedback, I took the general consensus advice and made a separate area for these "quick-links", "sideblog", or however else you'd like to refer to these non or lightly annotated list of outside links.

This section is not tied into the main weblog here, instead it's fed from http://del.icio.us, which is called "a social bookmarking service". Del.icio.us is difficult to fully describe, but it's a powerful tool for saving and organizing links that you find interesting. There is much more to it, set up a free account and try it out. The new links section is fed from delicious by way of a this Perl script from squarewithin. I chose this particular script rather than the ones listed on this page, and rather than a new (beta) xml-rpc function within del.icio.us itself because this script actually makes a new post for each link, and uses the MovableType category system, adding new categories automatically as needed. Coupled with a rebuild script, I can transfer links quickly via terminal, and eventually I'll automate the updates. This script lets me essentially make a back-up of all the links I post to my del.icio.us account.

The social features of del.icio.us don't get transfered, so if you'd like to access these links within the del.icio.us enviornment, here is where you can get to it: http://del.icio.us/wg. More tweaking will happen to this section, I'd also like to fold back in the blogroll somewhere, but anyways, thats the start of it. Please feel free to comment or contact with improvement suggestions - they are always welcome.