Providing ‘Quick Takes’
From nearly its inception, as the Editor of the Corante Web Hub one of the features I started was Hub Happenings. Hub Happenings basically contains excerpts from posts from network contributors. They are stories I find interesting but don’t necessarily feel they deserve their own entries. I’d like to develop something similar here, with links from around the web, along with my brief thoughts.
The del.icio.us “daily blog post” would make that quite easy. But I am not a fan of having it create an entry called “Links for 2006-03-08″ (or whatever date it may be) - I’d like to be able to provide the name of the entry, with perhaps a variable for the date. The other issue is that I don’t use del.ico.us, I use BlinkList (Mike, any thoughts on how I could do it with BlinkList?).
Outside of the logistical questions above, would these ‘quick takes’ on stories I read around the web be useful or interesting or would you just consider them clutter?
March 9, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Personally, I’d just find it clutter. There’s too much ‘link’ posts on blogs, and not enough decent content.
And, from what I’ve seen, most link posts seem to all point to the same 5-15 links for that day.
Stick to original content. :)
March 9, 2006 at 11:19 pm
I coded something like that for my blog. Sure, it’s an extra, but it doesn’t have to dominate your page. I have mine set to cap it off at the 10 most recent (that’s probably a little much, but it’s still manageable). I also find it a way of dealing with those stories/links/articles that may make it into a blog post later, but I don’t have the time to deal with right away.