Saturday, April 14, 2007

Blogspot, del.icio.us, and Feedburner

I noticed a few of my fave bloggers were making daily posts of del.icio.us links and notes. "Well that's very neat!" I say to myself. "How'd they do that?"

After a little bit of poking around, here's what I've come up with...


Del.icio.us has a couple of things that'll do it if you don't mind new posts showing up in your blog full of links: link rolling and daily blog posting. Great! I guess my only problem then is I don't actually want posts full of links showing up in my blog every day. Ugh. Enter Feedburner...

Feedburner takes my regular Blogspot feed and wraps it up in one of their own letting them do things like track how many subscribers I've got, and count the number of click-throughs to my posts-presumably to see which ones people are reading most? But here's something else they do that's been very helpful to my little quest... feed aggregation. Did you know del.icio.us serves up a feed of links you add to your account every day? I didn't. Anywho, it looks like Feedburner will automatically grab it and drop it into my feed without touching Blogspot.

Nice. :-)

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