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Bloglines Back-and-Forth

Bloglines Back-and-Forth. Chris McConnell Semantic Web Technologies May 1, 2006. The Problem. The Web-based RSS reader Bloglines.com offers a convenient way to read blogs. However, it creates problems for bloggers. It breaks bookmarklets, and requires extra clicks. The Process.

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Bloglines Back-and-Forth

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  1. Bloglines Back-and-Forth Chris McConnell Semantic Web Technologies May 1, 2006

  2. The Problem • The Web-based RSS reader Bloglines.com offers a convenient way to read blogs. • However, it creates problems for bloggers. • It breaks bookmarklets, and requires extra clicks.

  3. The Process • What is if there was a way to embed bookmarklets into Bloglines. • A Greasemonkey script exists that embeds the del.icio.us bookmarklet into Bloglines. • How could this be adapted for WordPress?

  4. Pretty easily.

  5. The Solution • The WordPress bookmarklet could be adapted into a Greasemonkey script for Bloglines with some changes. • Used the algorithm from the del.icio.us script to get blog entry titles and URIs. • Also added a variable for WordPress URI, so users could edit script for their own blogs.

  6. Special Bonus Feature • Bloglines has a “citation search” feature that uses its index of blogs. • Users can use a bookmarklet to see what blogs are linking to a particular page. • Bloglines doesn’t do a very good job of promoting this feature. • Bloglines Back-and-Forth embeds the functionality of this feature into the Bloglines pages.

  7. Limitations • Greasemonkey is a pretty awkward technology for ordinary users. • To adjust the script for your own blog, you have to edit the script. • The WordPress bookmarklet is far from ideal, particularly because of the rich editor in WordPress.

  8. What does this have to do with the Semantic Web? • Admittedly, the connection is tenuous at best. • Blogs can be seen as a way of describing a URI, and this script makes it somewhat easier to blog about a particular link. • The “Get Citations” feature describes how an entry sits in “The Blogosphere.”

  9. Discussion.

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