Follow-Up to Search Engine and Social Media Shenanigans: Yahoo! Blocks Other SEs From Spidering Del.icio.us?

OK, Yahoo! blocks spider from other search engines. Who cares?

How-To create your own copy of your del.icio.us bookmarks

It is as simple as creating a local copy of all your bookmarks stored at del.icio.us. Basically you have two pretty easy possibilities:

1. Static del.icio.us copy via export
2. Syncing your del.icio.us feed into an RSS feed aggregator

And maybe somebody has some cool ready made del.icio.us API solutions to offer (I don't).

Let's elaborate about the two mentioned possibilities...

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SEMANTIC EYE (SEYE) see what you've been missing

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The 'Brain' acts as the central control module and event management center. 'Tagging' (annotation or web site scrape) is performed here, a timeline may be created. From this point, SEYE is 'training', the system 'remembers' and the protocol module is consulted, recommending free or automated navigation.

For our purposes, the MindMap (Brain) is a start point and an end point, it can have branches and may contain annotations or website scrapes. You may apply any rules you wish to its construction, for example, I tend to put 'things to do' in a cloud on the right and 'things to think about' in a cloud on the left. It is an Ontology. 'Lenses' may be applied to illuminate data, facilitate protocol etc. there are many planned options.

Tag Clouds Evolve: Understanding Tag Clouds (Read This)

The Semantic Field (TagCloud) is configurable, it shares the Ontology/s and can be a control point for aggregation (RDF and non-RDF), the reasoner and the xml tree (publishing), it is a Content Management and Aggregation System. Ontology's may be loaded and unloaded, modified, shared and compared.

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Use mini blogs to enhance your blog and your single articles!

The idea of using asides is not new but still something most bloggers don't think about. Why? Simply because most bloggers are article oriented. Beside publishing the 'big' content you should always have an eye on enhancing your content.

One of the easiest ways to cover small aside content on your blog is to find a way to publish the small snippets in your template automatically at an appropriate place. If you use the grid concept or simply little divs floating at the right place doesn't matter.

How to create a mini blog for your site

How to get those snippets? I find it very easy and useful to write mini blogs by using good and short notes for my del.icio.us bookmarks and/or good descriptions on Flickr.

If you use the (tag) feed output of those sites you can have a nice publishing form on your blog. If the produced content is directly in your code and not generated by some JavaScript widget you will gain additional search engine love too!

My workflow for a mini blog

Very often I do a research on a certain subject and during that research publish a lot of useful mini-blog content by bookmarking found pages on del.icio.us. Tag those bookmarks appropriately and you have a great enhancement for your blog.

On my local news site in Hamburg Sankt-Georg.Info you will find the latest ten of my del.icio.us bookmarks tagged 'Hamburg' in the sidebar (which is only on that homepage not in the single article template).

The same technique is reproducable for every single article. You just have to tag your mini blog content right.

I am using the SimplePie plugin for Textpattern to fetch the RSS feeds and publish them directly in my code (Links to d.i.u. feed outputs).

It is up to your imagination what you can do with those mini blogs...