Tags - Digg, Del.ici.ous, Etc...
Aug 2 2007
Are the tags that members of LibCom attribute to specific news articles, history, etc... automatically translated to Digg, Del.ici.ous, etc... or does it have to be done manually? If manually, which is what I presume is the case, is there any way other than this to have all attributed tags on LibCom "uploaded" to these social bookmarking sites?
My conern is that there may be individuals interested in a certain topic that won't necessarily come to LibCom, but will use the social bookmarking sites instead. Each of us, however, manually updating every article on the site for each of the different social bookmarking sites would be a pain.
Aug 2 2007
#2
Makaira:
No they aren't uploaded at all for the reasons rkn says. There's ways to download links from delicious automatically, but not the other way 'round.
rkn: I reckon we could cut it down to delicious and Digg.
Having said that - if anyone's using delicious and wants to tag loads of articles, feel free 
Aug 2 2007
#3
If everybody chipped in maybe 5-10 articles a day (which wouldn't take that long), we'd be done in no time.
Aug 2 2007
#4
automatic would be a bad idea because people often submit bad tags.
I've no idea how any of that stuff works but it couldn't hurt to tag libcom articles.
It might be quicker to do it by tag rather than article Makaira, depending on how the sites work, using the libcom tag list.
Aug 2 2007
#5
Yeah tagging tags lists would be worthwhile.
http://libcom.org/tags has them all.
Aug 3 2007
#6
i think some sites submit them automatically, so it might be worth looking in to.., i see stuff come up in tags in technorati, for example, that is tagged with stuff that the original article was tagged with...
Aug 3 2007
#7
technorati's different because it's a big blog aggregator - it's done at their end. We can set up a ping with it to update when stuff gets posted. Used to have one,didn't work well, but could try again now.
delicious works very different to techno though.
Aug 8 2007
#8
Also for some reason the service links are on pages like explore when there is no need for them to be.
Aug 8 2007
#9
Rather than going through everything and tagging it on del.icio.us I am being selfish and only tagging articles I like. 
I think any sort of mass submission would just be considered spam.
And no technically we don't know of a way to do it.
Perhaps some sort of auto-submission every time an article is submitted might be possible, but that goes against the point of social bookmarking sites which is meant to be about communities of people finding articles and sharing them blah blah blah.
I don't know why we have all those links under the articles anyway, the only decent ones are delicious and digg .