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del.icio.us Glue for Me and You

Oh yeah. Remember how I was talking yesterday about having set up Delicious Glue? Well, you guys can use it too, if you want. Because I like looking though other people’s links.

  1. First you will need an account at LiveJournal, InsaneJournal or JournalFen.
  2. Second, a del.icio.us account. del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool; grab it, grab the Firefox plugin and start bookmarking links.
  3. Log into del.icio.us and visit the daily blog posting page in the settings.
  4. Click add new thingy.
  5. Set out_name and out_pass to your LiveJournal username and password (del.icio.us doesn’t steal your login info and neither do I, just in case you were wondering).
  6. Set out_url to http://glue.void-star.net/livejournal (http://glue.void-star.net/insanejournal and http://glue.void-star.net/journalfen work too).
  7. out_time is a bit more tricky because the LJ client is a bit stupid and doesn’t understand time zones. It also won’t accept a new post made ‘before’ a post you’ve already made. To make it more complicated, del.icio.us uses GMT while the Glue script uses AEST. So I set out_time to 13 because 1pm GMT is midnight for me, and by making a post at midnight I’m not likely to get time clashes. So out_time controls when a post is made, but the timestamp on the post will be in AEST. Your best bet it probably just to set it to whatever and if you get issues to keep moving the time around until you find something that doesn’t give you problems. I should probably work on making the time thing a bit more configurable… Oh, and if you want to know what the current time in GMT is, just ask Google (and for AEST).
  8. Press Submit Query (you can leave the other two options blank; they don’t do anything).
  9. Now wait until your post is scheduled. The actual script usually runs about 20 minutes after whatever hour (in GMT) you’ve specified in out_time

And there you have it. Wait until your time rolls around and hopefully you should get something that looks like this. Too easy!

542 words posted 953 days ago at 9:22 am.

This entry has 5 comments from Jem, Dee. Tell Dee what you think?

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Crossposted to dee.dreamwidth.org, loqia.insanejournal.com, loqia.journalfen.net.

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5 Comments

  1. 952 days ago
    125 comments

    Jem

    Another cheaty way for someone to sync their delicious links with their entries is to use feedburner, and enable the option in their control panel. To get it on LJ they can then set up a standard syndicated account.

    Much less geeky, of course ;)

    • 952 days ago
      1,606 comments

      Dee

      You don’t even need Feedburner for that; you can just syndicate the feed that del.icio.us already provides.

      But syndicated accounts are a bit… meh. It’s a second journal, for one, and if people comment on your links you won’t get notifications (I get this problem with my fiction archive; people comment on the RSS notifications and the comments just get eaten by the aether after a week or however long LJ takes to roll entries off).

      I <3 LJ’s XML-RPC interface; best damn thing about the place, and it’s the main reason I use it rather than any of the other social network blogs.

    • 952 days ago
      125 comments

      Jem

      Indeed, but for maximum idiot-proof simplicity? Feedburner works wonders. That’s why I use it ;)

      TBH not enough people pay attention to my feed via LJ for commenting to be an issue. I get maybe one comment on it every 6 months. One of these days I’ll do it all “properly”, but I’ve only just fixed problems in my admin panel that’ve been there for nearly 3 years.. can’t see it being any time soon.

      • 952 days ago
        1,606 comments

        Dee

        Yanno, I never really ‘got’ Feedburner. I’d understand if it was a proper aggregator but… it isn’t. I guess I don’t really see the point of using it versus just using a really-real feed.

        Okay, hit counts, I guess.

        I have friends rather than ‘readers’ on LJ, so it’s where I get most of my comments. I’ve given up trying to train people to come over here to make them. ^^”

        Also: Admins panels are so-oo-oo over-rated. ;)

      • 952 days ago
        125 comments

        Jem

        Erm, if I remember why I originally went to feedburner I’ll let you know. ;) I do have a really-real feed, it just happens to redirect to feedburner. Although yes, there is the small advantage of being able to count individual hits to items and subscribers without having to code it myself.

        I do have LJ friends, but I keep them separate on my very rarely updated account where I occasionally tell people all my deepest darkest secrets (well, the pot plant I got for my birthday from work last year.)

        My admin panel looks shiny now :3

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