New Del.icio.us Links

A new feature of this blog is that I will be sharing my Del.icio.us web links as blog posts. These will appear as a daily compilation on any day after I have added these links. At the bottom of the blog you will find a tag cloud of topics in my Del.icio.us account.

Tech Note - how I set this up:

Del.icio.us has a tool called a 'Thingy' that is supposed to publish a link compilation automatically to a blog - but it does not seem to work for this platform (Blogger). But if you know of a way - let me know!

Here's the work-around that I used. It is based on a solution by
Anand Kishore. Here's what I did: How to get Del.ico.us daily blog posting to appear in Blogger:

1. Set up a new blank blog in Blogger. This blog won't be used for anything so it does not matter what it looks like. It's only role is to be the root of an RSS feed.
   
2. Configure the blog where you want these posts to appear to receive posts by email. (i.e. not the blank one you just set up) You can find this under "Settings/Email". Click on "Save emails as draft posts" you might want to edit what these look like before the world sees them.
   
3. Next pick up the feed in Feedburner. This is a feed from an empty blog so it will have nothing in it.
   
4. Under the "Optimize" tab, I turned on the "Link Splicer" feature. This allows you to tap into your Del.icio.us account and add your new links as an item in the feed.
   
5. Open up the RSS feed in your browser (the RSS icon at the top left of the page) You should see a compilation of your Del.icio.us links.
   
6. Click on the "Get … delivered by email" link. Enter in the email of your blog. If you add any links to Del.icio.us, you should see this as a draft post the next morning!
   

Again, if you know of a simpler or better way of doing this, please post a comment!