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February 14, 2005

Chatango SMS

Filed under: tools

I just emailed Alec at Chatango about some IM functions, and got a quick reply

I asked:

"If someone chats to me via a chat box on my blog can chatango sms me or email my mobile phone as a notification (as I may not e online, or on a different computer).

In return can I email or SMS from my mobile phone back to chatango

I think messenger can do this to a certain degree…hotmail can alert your mobile phone when you have a new email"

Response:

"Yes, this is one of the planned features - it will send out SMS notifications of new messages.

Thanks for the feedback."

Individual post citation search

Filed under: General, conversation

Hopefully this post will be sent to Lazy web via trackback

I’ve noticed that some blogs have a citation or link search for every post (perma URL)

Eg.

Blah blah post!!   -  Feb 14 2005

Filed under: blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Comments (0) Trackback (0)

(Google it! Technorati it! Del.icio.us it!)

My blog is a Wordpress blog hosted by Blogsome…just wondering if anyone knows how to include these citation links?

It’s easy enough clicking on a citation link bookmarklet, but if I’m not on my computer I don’t have easy access to these bookmarklets.

…not sure if del.icio.us url search works like the others mentioned above.

Duplicating blog posts in del.icio.us

Filed under: General, blogs, tags

Instead of applying Technorati tags (so my posts are indexed - unless Technorati can automatically index the categories in my blog) to each post on my blog I am saving each post in a del.icio.us account and applying the same tags as the categories used on my blog. This way I have a back up of all my posts and Technorati will index them (although my results will be presented under the del.icio.us heading instead of the more appropriate blog heading in the Technorati tag search page.

Also my blog can be searched via my del.icio.us account by combining categories, something my blog’s native search facility doesn’t offer.

Another added bonus is that I virtually have double the content floating round (which is a bit cheeky), and anything posted in the del.icio.us social circle will increase my visibility.

…now that you have an RSS feed for your categories in your blog (via del.icio.us) you can also add an RSS feed button next to each of your categories, this way someone can read only what they are interested in.

Doing different things with blogs

Filed under: General, blogs, rss, tags, newsmaster

Been thinking about the different ways blogs are used structually, combining features with other services.

Trackback is being used to not only notify other blogs that you are talking about them, but to also contribute or duplicate your content on another channel, this is done at topicexchange (I think k-collector does this in a more sophisticated way).

Lazy web (ask a question, oracle type blog) uses trackback as a way of people contributing to the content of the blog. You ask a question by writing a post in your own blog and trackback the lazy web blog..in turn it duplicates your content (your question) on its blog.

Incorporate content from other blogs or content within bookmark tags on the side panel of your blog with tools such as Feedsweep and RSS-to-Javascript…you can also use RSS Digest (which i haven’t tested yet) which displays the content from somewhere else in html…

…I’d like to start a new automated blog where the content is automatically fed via my del.icio.us account using RSS Digest, an example is  CCTE distributed research .The only problem for me is that I’d like to display the content from 5 of my delicious tags, but I don’t want to combine them in Blogdigger and churn out a synthetic feed, I want the content of each individual feed to appear separatly in the blog, an example of this presentation is Newsbreaking blog…so I am wondering how to go about developing this blog that is on auto pilot as long as I post content into those particular delicious tags…

…if anyone has suggestions let me know

Another thought I had was to use my Bloglines clip blog, enloop has a great way to use the clip blog to make categories via del.icio.us. Here is an excerpt:

"I created an account on del.icio.us, added the entries from this sites, and applied appropiate tags. Then I created the folder "tags for blog/enloop" to my blogroll and sorted the folder to the bottom of the list. The folder contains RSS subscriptions of the tags used on this site.  Now for every new posted entry just apply the appropiate tag to every posted entry and post it to del.icio.us."

I guess you can also set up a new Bloglines account and make it public, and this would do the same thing, although it would lack an RSS feed and also lack the presentation.

My ultimate goal would be to have a site such as LIS feeds or Newstation, where the categories are del.icio.us tags and when you click on one the content appears, if you click on another topic then that content appears in replace.

…on the topic of Bloglines clip blog another use for it has been as web feed storage space, via Seb’s open research.

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