The Return of Interesting Links
I’ve started collecting — and sharing — them again.
Over the years, I’ve posted almost daily lists of links to articles I’ve read on the Web that I think blog readers might enjoy. They come under the main title of “Interesting Links” and include the date on which I found them. Clicking the “links” tag in the sidebar will display them all, in reverse chronological order.
It might surprise some people to learn that this is mostly automated. I simply bookmark the page I want to share with Delicious. Each night, a plugin on my WordPress blog, checks in to see what links have been added. It publishes the day’s list as a blog post at around 11 PM.
That would explain why an “interesting links” page might contain a single link; I only bookmarked one link that day.
What I like about this solution (other than the automation, of course) is that it enables me to determine exactly what I want the post link to say and include a description of the post.
Some of you may have noticed that these posts stopped appearing at the beginning of December. The truth of the matter is that I simply stopped bookmarking links. I got busy and traveled around, mostly between Wickenburg and Phoenix. I stopped following Twitter — which is a great source of links to interesting information — so closely. And, frankly, I got lazy. When I found an interesting page, I didn’t bother to bookmark it. Maybe I realized that it might be the only link I bookmarked that day and I didn’t want it to be all alone in its blog post.
But I’ve started bookmarking again and hope to continue to share the best content I find on the Web — usually with the help of some Twitter friends.
And I’ll do it legally, by offering just a description and link, rather than a word-for-word reproduction of what I find. (More on slimebags who do that in another post.)
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