Thanks to Burningbird, I just learned that technorati tags do not need to actually link to technorati. This is important because for a while now I’ve been using delicious as a way to make categories on my blog posts. You’ll notice some of my posts have a “categories” line at the bottom and then links to my correstponding delicious tags. Delicious tages are shared, but they’re also tracked by user so you can see all of my tags by going to http://del.icio.us/tedernst whereas technorati pulls tags from delicious, flickr and blog entries to create their tag pages. On their site they ask you to put a link like technorati this in your post so that it is listed in their tag pages. So I started using this bookmarklet to write the code for me for whatever technorati tags I wanted on my posts (see my previous post for the way I linked to various words as technorati tags.
It’s much cleaner if I just use this Technorati Delicious Bookmarklet (blogger wordpress didn’t like putting it on this page, so clicking the link will give you the bookmarklet that you can bookmark or drag to you links toolbar. You will have to edit the properties after you’ve bookmarked it so your own delicious user name is there instead of mine.) that I wrote came up with by modifying the above bookmarklet.
Categories: blogging, tags, delicious, technorati, bookmarklet
edit: This post is by far the one with the most link-backs. Since those link-backs have been going to my old blogger blog, they’re not doing me much good. So I decided to edit the post at blogger to just point here and have also moved the location of the bookmarklet.
Hello Ted,
Thanks for the ideas – I’ve been looking to implement categories on my blog for a while and your post helped a lot.
I’m new to del.icio.us but I noticed that I can get the link to “pick up” the tags from the post and pre-populate their form. This means I only have to enter the tags once (when I write the blog).
Check it out here (still experimenting, but look for “tag”):
http://ghill.customer.netspace.net.au/vent/vent.html
I pass the tags in using the blogger link hack, but use javascript inside the post to mark them up, instead of your bookmarklet.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
-Greg.
glad I could help – I’m only now seeing this comment because something’s been wrong wtih my RSS feed for comments – weird
I agree. Thanks for making it straightforward to tag blogger posts…
…now if only del.icio.us was working tonight….
I have also discovered a spectacular add-on and side benefit of this process. Extisp.icio.us is a service that provides a graphical representation, or map, of a user’s del.icio.us tags. A del.icio.us signon is all that’s needed to get a page that maps your tags. Check out my extisp.icio.us page, and my recent post explaining what the map is and what it is good for.
I’ve decided to leave a single list to my del.icio.us page in the sidebar. Thanks again for the help!!
I’ve given up on blogger, mostly. I’ve converted to wordpress which has categories in it. I haven’t figured them out yet, though my interest in blogger hacks has gone way down. Glad to hear you’ve found something that works for you!
One more question now that I have it all working. Did you have to code the categories links in your sidebar by hand, or is there a way to transfer the list from del.icio.us so that it posts on a blogger page?
(It would be a pain to have to edit my template manually every time I need a new category…) Thanks again.
Thank you! I’ve been wanting to put categories on my page without switching from blogger (at least for now) but I couldn’t figure out a way to do it.
Thanks Ted.
those sidebar links are hard-coded, in fact, I have about 20 times more labels in my delicious account – at some point I’ll need to see if those are really the ones I want in the sidebar – as long as the posts have categories, however, the sidebar stuff maybe isn’t even needed – I dunno – let me know what you decide to do
am a technorati user, i think i need to shift to delicious, can you please give me a url of a php script that automatically converts [tags] into DELICIOUS tags..?
thanks a lot.
Hi Ted,
Just wanted to know that I am using your bookmarklet in blogger. It works great! I have a del.icio.us tag roll programmed to list the top 15 (or so) categories. So it is very dynamic. I had tried other methods (greasemonkey) for putting in these tags and found your bookmarklet the most ideal for my purposes (and knowledge).
Thanks for the note, Teresa. Very cool setup you have!
That tag generator is good one and as wordpress.com blog does not allow span class i’ve excluded that tag and remaining html remains same and it would take the default link style of the theme. So wordpress.com users should use the bookmarklet bellow for technorati tag generator.
Technorati Tags: ‘;for(var i=0;i 0){a+=’, ‘;}a+=’‘+tr[i]+’‘;}a+=”;prompt(’Copy this code, press OK, then paste to your blog entry:’,a);})()”>click here to bookmark(for technorati)
In prev comment link’s not parsed properly
javascript:(function(){var a='';var t=prompt('Enter Tags:','');var tr=t.split(' ');a+='Technorati Tags: ';for(var i=0;i 0){a+=', ';}a+=''+tr[i]+'';}a+='';prompt('Copy this code, press OK, then paste to your blog entry:',a);})()
Hi, anyone here who can explain me clearly what del.icio.us is?
Thanks!
Did you try http://del.icio.us/about/ ?
Is this stuff working on the current wordpress install here? I am a bit clueless as to what this is. May have to ask in person.
No, this was a tool I used when this site was on blogger, quite a long time ago. I am not using it with wordpress.
thanks ted..
I have now a bit knowledge what del.icio.us is.
anyway thanks for this article!