Revamped ‘shared links’ sidebar
Whenever I come across a website worth sharing I save it to my delicious account and tag it 'wongablog'. Anything with this tag appears in this blog's sidebar, just beneath the tweets (on the front page only). This works ok, but I've recently been using Google Reader's sharing options in a similar way, and I wanted to combine the two.
Google Reader lets you share posts with any gmail contact. So when I see an interesting post while browsing one of my way-too-many-feeds, I click 'share'. The post then appears in an 'Andrew's shared items' feed in the Reader account of anyone who wants to follow me. 'Share with note' lets me add editorials. I've been doing this more and more lately, and I wanted to add them to the blog somehow.
It was trickier than I thought, which just meant I got a bee in my bonnet. I needed some help, but got there in the end: the Shared Links now picks up links from both delicious and GR, and the latter's 'share with note' posts have my little editorials as a description.
I had to learn Yahoo Pipes to get it working. If you're interested, the method is after the break.
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