Web Links, RFD

Feed viewers may have noticed a change last week. For several months now i have been using BlinkList to keep up with my web links. I commented about the usefulness of it earlier….

But having the realization that i don’t really need to keep 1300 links around means i will probably keep my eye open for opportunities to improve the workflow for posting links…which is pretty simple at this point, but one never knows.

Since i am now an ecto user, i improved the workflow and removed a dependence on a third party service that i really wasn’t using. Nothing against BlinkList; it is actually one of the better run services i’ve used.

I’m now just using WordPress with a standardized template for tracking links. It lets me post’em, flag’em and search’em; which is 99% of the functionality i need.

I also took the opportunity to actually use one of the features of reBlog that lets one republish articles that are of interest.

Using a simple XML parsing script to grab the feeds from my new link blog and the reblog re-published articles, i’m now posting both to my main feed. I’m still enforcing my own rule (a personal preference) where three links are required to post on a given day.

In the end, i’m more content with the set-up. It works and removes a dependence on a third-party service. For those playing along at home, yes, i ditched my own scuttle install for BlinkList because i didn’t want the overhead of running my own link manager. Since i’m already using WordPress for multiple blogs, this addition adds no more overhead for me personally.