Daily del.icio.us links forthcoming!
March 13th, 2006
Like Geof, I’m going to set up daily linkdumps from del.icio.us tonight. I’ve only just signed up for an account there so don’t have a history of links, but we’ll play this little game and see where we get.
I never really saw the point of it before, but today I came across a page about setting view options on OS X .dmg files that looked moderately useful in the future, and instead of bookmarking it I thought I’d try out this del.icio.us thing. So there you have it.
You know you want to be like me, Brad. It’s okay to admit it! ;)
[Insert joke about Canadians beating Americans at their own game here.]
No comment. :)
Now I just have to work on formatting…
… and not excerpting your feeds. :cry:
[No comment?! THE HELL! I gave you a huge opening, Brad. HUGE, I tell you.]
Yeah, I’m going to change that. I thought excerpting was a good idea, but it’s not really for these daily links posts.
I personally abhor excerpting and tend to unsubscribe from such feeds. I’ll stick with feeds for folks I know or really like, but … that’s about it.
I did it because I wanted people to visit my website to read the story. I’m rethinking that opinion.
And you’d hate the CBC’s feeds because all you get are the story titles!
I’m sure that I’d hate it. ESPN has at least started excerpting [most of the time]. Professional journalists know how to write an engaging lead, so it’s usually okay. Most of the rest of us suck at writing leads … myself chief among them.