Library clips

Here are some more del.icio.us bookmarklets…thanks to Quick Online Tips

post.icio.us - New Tools for Quicker Posts in del.icio.us

Even quicker ways of posting to del.icio.us than the current bookmarks, and what a variety.

New Search Tools for Del.icio.us

These are the one’s I’ve been looking for, include:

Search your bookmarks in your account

Search single or multiple tags in all accounts

Also available for searching other users accounts

Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tool Collection

This is where they all live…have fun…although it’s exhausting.

NOTE: Trying to track down some posts that let you add services to your right-click mouse button.

I used these on my old work computer, but I can’t find the posts that have the goodies…I think I had Furl, Bloglines and Technorati (and maybe del.icio.us)
The Furl it! one is great because it lets you Furl frames within a page, and I like adding feeds to Bloglines by a simple right click.

Where are they….arghh!

Just to re-iterate from two earlier posts.

reBlog for clips
Doing different things with blogs

Apparently by using reBlog you can post an entry (via bookmarklet) from your RSS aggregator into your blog. This duplicates the content and at the end of the post lists the source. They mention this is a great feature for people that don’t write their own posts but like to clip or curate content.

Bloglines clip blog has this to an extent, but when you clip it just clips the Blog post title only (it doesn’t re-publish the content).

Another way of having a clip blog or link blog is for people to subscribe to the RSS or RSS of a tag, or a search RSS (Furl only) of your Furl or del.icio.us account. This way they can receive your clips with an annotated abstract or comment if you like.

What if the users want to read the actual site instead of subscribing to the RSS?
Well they can do this but the bookmark managers don’t have date marked entries like blogs, so the presentation isn’t as suitable.

Although, you can use RSS Digest to convert your RSS feed from del.icio.us or Furl into HTML so the information in a particular feed can be presented in a blog with date marked entries.
The only thing is you can’t have categories in your blog, you need a separate blog for each RSS feed.

The only tool I’ve seen so far that blurs this line is the social bookmark manager, del.irio.us. It is similar to del.icio.us, but in your main page you can choose to expand the list to see the annotation or clipping/abstact
Most different of all is that all your entries run by datemarked order, which is the common blog format.
So it is a bookmark manager that streams or presents content like a blog (date-marked)

Check out how community engine formulates a clip blog.
(Ist comment on this blog post)

Here is Bud’s weblog (click WebCite’s tab)

Extra’s:

Post to del.icio.us from bloglines
Blogmarks also does this.

Superblog
Automatically present content from multiple RSS feeds into a blog.

But still you can’t have categories for each of these feeds, well you can list the feeds and they can act as your categories, but if you click on it you have to view the content at the original site, I want to be able to view the category content within the blog.

I guess this is similar to one of the features of Blogdigger groups.

Here is an example

Behind the scenes at Superblog is PlanetPlanet.

In a post a while back I was trying to figure out how to generate a search RSS feed from just one RSS feed.

Not sure if I can do this on Blogdigger groups.

When I turn only one feed on I can’t seem to search within just this one feed, therefore I can’t generate a search RSS feed.

Not sure if this is just a bug.

But as it turns out I can use the main Blogdigger search engine to search in just one RSS feed by using the “site:” prefix or the “blogID” prefix.

Here are some examples for my blog:

all my posts

site: libraryclips.blogsome.com
Here is the RSS feed (Wow, an alternate feed for my blog!)

free-text search for the term Spurl

site: libraryclips.blogsome.com spurl
Here is the RSS feed

search in a category

site:libraryclips.blogsome.com subject:furl
Here is the RSS feed (Category feeds for your blog)

Replace the blogID for the site prefix…find the blogID by hovering your mouse on the focus link (sits under each result)

I wonder if this works in other popular blog or RSS engines.

If Blogdigger doesn’t have the particular RSS feed you want to generate a search RSS feed from then you will have to submit it.

I’m not sure if Blogdigger is just for blog feeds or if they welcome any old RSS feed…I suppose this is the beauty of Blogdigger groups, as you can do what you want, it’s your group…only if it would work (hopefully it’s just a bug)

The cool thing about this is the you can put a Blogdigger search box on your blog to search just your blog…you’d have to put a search tips link to inform users of using the command searching for categories demonstrated above, unless you could put a drop-down menu of categories in your search box…how cool would that be!

NOTE: to generate a search RSS feed from just one RSS feed related to news, use Yahoo news (advanced search).

Eg. Put the source in the source field and search term in the search field or use the “inurl:” prefix (although I can only view all articles in this publication, I can’t put in a search term)

Thanks to the Do-It Yourself Librarian

ADDED 05/05/05: Feedster can also search within one feed, generating a refined feed.

Spurl is a social bookmarking manager similar to Furl. Zniff is a search engine for all the collective Spurl accounts.

Furl has a public version of single accounts (unless marked private by the account holder) so you can search an individual archive.
It also has a collective search engine of all the Furl accounts, but you have to search this from your own account.

What if you don’t have a Furl account (even though they are free!)

A way around this is to use Google:

inurl:furl.net/members trigon

in this example “trigon” is the search term

Although it doesn’t accept “phrase searching”…I tried to do a search for “tax and taxonomies” which is an article I have in my Furl archive, but it returned 2 hits from other Furl accounts that had both the words in the bookmark, but not as a phrase.

Another way is using the site search function:

site:furl.net/members trigon

Technorati tags and Tag Central both search Furl, but only for a tag and the contents within, they don’t search the full-text.

As mentioned by Blogdriverswaltz, Freetag is an application that enables you to create tags on an existing database. This extensible feature allows a database, website, OPAC to include tagging as a feature of their offerings. I wonder if any major sites have implemented this software, it would be good to compare the logs to see if the how often the tag clouds (a way to present the tags in a folksonomy of a website) are being used compared to the navigation features.