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Re: louisgray.com: How Soon Until People Demand Link Blog Portability?

engtech — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:21:00 -0000

correction: You "can't get" all of your items from the RSS feed.

man, the typos be sucking today.

Re: louisgray.com: How Soon Until People Demand Link Blog Portability?

engtech — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:19:00 -0000

I've still stuck with http://del.icio.us/engtech even though I've been tempted by the Google Reader ease of share.

Delicious is so much more useful to me in the long run.

Re: Google Shares RSS feed -- that has a limit to the number of items you can download though. You can get *all* of your items from the RSS feed if you want to move them to another service.

Re: louisgray.com: How Soon Until People Demand Link Blog Portability?

louisgray — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:33:00 -0000

Matt, thanks for your visit and comment. You're right as far as RSS is concerned. (as mrshl mentioned as well)

I'm thinking a bit about next-gen feed readers, like Assetbar, where if I were to move away from Google Reader, I would be in effect, abandoning the link blog. In theory, I'd like to take the link blog and move it to a new service, or point Assetbar's capabilities to the link blog.

As for comments and interpretation of the shared items, so far, the only place I can do that today is FriendFeed. AssetBar offers the ability to share and comment also. I'm looking forward to each of these services becoming more rich over time.

Re: louisgray.com: How Soon Until People Demand Link Blog Portability?

Matt Cutts — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:16:00 -0000

As mrshl alluded to, you can always take the RSS feed of your link blog from Google Reader and then slice/dice your data however you want, including backing it up or feeding it into someone else's system (e.g. Yahoo Pipes).

So I agree that the link blog format is a tad limited, but you can always pull your link blog data out of Google Reader and use it however you want.

Personally, I'd enjoy something like Jeremy Zawodny's "recent links" section where he adds a one-liner comment on his links. :)

Re: louisgray.com: How Soon Until People Demand Link Blog Portability?

mrshl — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:46:00 -0000

I feed my link blog into Tumblr, which also captures feeds from Del.icio.us, Twitter, and LiveJournal.

And it's super easy to set up your own custom URL using Google Apps/Domain and Tumblr.

Could not be easier, or prettier.