Library clips

You can’t copy and paste across two computers, so here is a hack, moreso here is a space to do it.

How

Make your own URL, here’s mine
I made this URL, by typing “john” at the end of this http://cl1p.net/

Paste some text in it and save

When you are on another computer launch to this URL and click copy, then paste it where you want.

Next time, just clear the screen and start again…you always re-use the same space

You can also load in attachments.

For every blog post I have several automatic link searches to various engines to see who is talking about this post, or who is bookmarking this post.

I could just have a link to TalkDigger, so you only have to click once, and launch to an external page which shows who is talking about that post from the various engines (not sure if it includes who’s bookmarking your posts).

The problem is it launches to an external page, I want to see who is talking about the blog posts within the blog post itself.

So I thought of putting a Grazr box at the end of each blog post, but that would look too clunky.
Although, this would be great as right there within the blog post you could graze who is talking about it, and who is bookmarking it.

Another thing, how would I automate this for every post
…how would a Grazr box appear with the link search feeds automatically generated for every post (no doubt you would need some code for the post template of your blog).

If I could work this out, then people could browse various link search feeds to see who is linking to my post and also read these posts within my post itself
(this is RSS Reading/Grazing at the post level about the post itself).

Since a Grazr box would look clunky I could use a similar service in Optimal, only I’m not sure how to generate this code, and to generate it automatically for every blog post.
But the reason I say Optimal, is that it can sit at the end of your blog post as a folder icon (not taking up much space at all), to see and read who is talking about the blog post, just expand the folder, choose a feed, choose an item…the only thing is Optimal only shows titles of feed items, unlike Grazr it doesn’t go one step further to show the full post.

I really think that we can ego graze within a blog post, where the feeds are automatically generated as link searches (from various engines) for that post.

Related
Socializer is a code to put in your post template…at the end of every post there will be a hyperlink:
Social bookmark this page.

From this external page you can choose from the bookmark services to save that blog post.

Out of all the newsmastering portals Kinja is the first I’ve seen in a folksonomy environment, and as we go on you will see it is one step away from being a fully-fledged Reading List folksonomy.

I guess it is a feed folksonomy, but you also get the beauty of seeing feeds organised into user river of news, as well as tag river of news (user and general level), as well as related sites river of news…so it goes futher to being a newsmaster folksonomy.

How it works

Load in some feeds via an OPML…great start…or add a few at a time…there is also a bookmarklet to add sources…add some tag/s to your feeds.

There you have it, a very simple low-key river of news public reader that archives posts…here’s my 50 or so favourite feeds…click on a tag to read content from feeds with a particular tag.
This is what Blogdigger Groups, MySyndicaat, SuprGlu, and others are missing, ie. folder/tags to groups feeds to view a tag/folder river of news…Kinja provides a spliced feed for every tag/folder river of news, but not an OPML Reading List.

Here’s my mix.

Here’s my feed.

Here are my sources.

Here’s my Reading List.

Click on a tag to view a mix at the tag level…or grab a feed at the tag level.

You can view posts and backlinks from just one source…also view a whole lot of statistics.
This view also lists related sources from the Kinja community (based on the common tags).

You can see a river of news for related sites for a given source, here is the river of news from related sources to Library Stuff.

When you view a source you will see that people have assigned tags, clicking on a tag will show a river of news from sources with that tag…here’s a topic about RSS.

In a nutshell

You can make your own and also view other people’s river of news, just like many of the other newsmastering services, but since you can tag your sources, then you have tag based river of news as well.
If you view the contents of just one source, it shows other sources who also have that tag (related sources), and you can add these to your river of news with one easy click.
Also you can see a river of news from sources related to the current source on your page (based on common tags)
…so in all you have 4 type of river of news: user, tag (user), tag (community), and related sources.

Search

You can’t search your own river of news, but you can search a keyword…but this is basically searching for a tag, you will see the tag “RSS” is the same as a search for the term “RSS“. (actually this is the search return page you would see first, then you can see content based on time).

NOTE: there isn’t a tag for OPML, but there is a search for OPML

Reading List folksonomy

What about related user accounts to mine based on common sources?
Or tag your user river of news, so others can discover river of news digests by tag…this would give you list of user accounts with a given tag, and maybe even read a mega-river of news.

This is kind of coming back to a Reading List folksonomy, only with a river of news to boot…hang on, this is a Reading List folksonomy in a way, as every user has an OPML you can share and discover…imagine this also at the user tag level (ie. a Reading List for each of your tag river of news).
[ADDED: you don’t need to imagine, I just noticed each tag river of news has a spliced feed and it’s own OPML Reading List, so it’s like a feed folksonomy where each tag of feeds supplies an OPML, so this goes a step further than the other feed folksonomies so far]

Also, as I mentioned before if you could tag your user account, this would really be a Reading List folksonomy, as you could share discover Reading Lists by tag.
[ADDED: I guess you could say all your feeds with a specific tag could be a Reading List in it’s own right]

Technorati Favourites could choose to do something similar, we already have our own river of news, and we can easily add sources, but we aren’t tagging our sources or tagging our river of news in order to share and discover (that is, sharing and discovering feeds, river of news, reading lists).

BuzzShout is basically a memedigger like Digg, but is focused on web2.0 services.

What a great idea there are so many web2.0 services…a communal bookmarking site to list and tag them all and rate them is a good idea, you can also comment on each service (which they call Reviews) and vote for these as well.

When I saw the word “Reviews” I thought this meant you could bookmark blog posts or webpages reviewing a web2.0 service.
I suppose they could have 2 columns, one for built in reviews, and one for listing URL’s of external reviews.

Or a similar service could be based on structured blogging or microformats, an edgeio type service that could aggregate blog reviews on web2.0 services.

[ADDED 06/05/06: lists lists lists web2.o lists lists lists]

RedirectThis is a universal Blog This tools, similar to reblg, and also reBlog.

From the website:

“Ever wondered why you can’t just click on an article and blog it? Where’s the universal “Blog This” button? […] RedirectThis is a blog-this button that works with any site, routing users to whatever tool they choose. […] RedirectThis solves this problem by sitting between a source blog and a reblog, redirecting users to the reblog of their choice.”

There are 2 choices, hit a button that goes to the RedirectThis website first, or another button which goes direct to your reblog site (the reblog site may be your blog…for the second option you have to add some code to your blog)…how it works.

See the demo.

So basically, it is about taking chunks of microcontent and sending it to another application…this is basically the idea of cut n’ paste (where you are holding the data and looking for a place to put it), whereas with reblogging you are sending the data to a URL.

Check out Live Clipboard, a cut n’ paste tool for the web (copy content and paste it somewhere else).