Ma.gnolia and del.icio.us
I’ve remembered why I stopped doing Vidis. They very easily pile up into time consuming posts which take a couple of hours to put together. One solution I tried was auto-posting from del.icio.us. You can set it up so that when you have five or more new links that it sends a post to your weblog. I stopped using del.icio.us because there’s a tight limit on what you can note about a link. Sometimes it’s too tight.
Ma.gnolia looks like it could be better. It has the option to post every day, every three days, weekly… and so on. The description of a link can be a lot longer. If you highlight text before clicking the bookmarklet then it also puts this straight into the description a bit like tumblr. So for now I’m experimenting to see if ma.gnolia would be worth using as a quicker way to link and post.
The downside is that ma.gnolia’s standard output is not very friendly to WordPress.com weblogs. The title links are encased in h4 tags and the description between div tags rather than p tags. It means that the descriptions can be illegible on some templates. This is why I’ve changed the template. If you’re on a site where it’s simple to change the style sheets then it could much better than del.icio.us. It’s a shame because mechanically it works very well with WordPress.
There are additional features to ma.gnolia. You can pool bookmarks in groups as well as browse by tags. It seems more Flickr-ish than del.icio.us. People who understand social networking better than I do can probably work out a variety of uses for it.
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AoB Blog goes live (or what I’m doing on my summer holidays)
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AoB Blog is now live at aobblog.com. The design looks similar to this site, and that’s partly because I’ve been using this site to test some code. It’ll be part of the web presence I’m building for the Annals of Botany. Surprisingly there is some archaeological relevance. Papers are open to non-subscribers after a year
…and now the blog re-design in English
about 1 month ago - 5 comments
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Retcon
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Blogging Archaeology at the SAA
about 3 months ago - 1 comment
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Congratulations to Afarensis!
about 11 months ago - 1 comment
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The 2009 site revision
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
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Science is Cultures
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
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The Negative Influence of PZ Myers
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
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about 1 year ago - 1 comment
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about 2 years ago
Bones will be picked! Just tried Magnolia. Initial impression is that it is feature rich but at the expense of sluggish and difficult to navigate. Not a good trade off IMO.
Where do you find the instructions to export bookmarks to blog? I couldn’t find them anywhere.
about 2 years ago
Go to You >> Your Profile
Click on Blog Tools
then register a blog (maximum one) and set up a job.
The posts occur around midnight Pacific Standard Time which I think is GMT-8.
The instructions are somewhere on one of the help pages. Finding the bookmarklet was the problem I had. The help system doesn’t seem to be very helpful at the moment. I also agree the speed is slow, but now I have the bookmarklet set up it does what I need. If I’m going to spend more time on the site it’ll have to get faster.
Really it would also be helpful if you could edit the posting template like you can on Flickr as well. On the plus side unlike Flickr you can define which category you blog to.