Wanted: Blogging Plugin
This one is strictly for all the other losers out there who blog.
We need someone to write the plugin which will end the problem of expired material.
I think I have it in concept. I use trillian as an IM client. As I write, it adds hyperlinks to words that link back to wikipedia entries on the subject.
We need a similar plugin for blogs and our archives.
What if, as we posted, hyperlinks were added to our most used words- linking to dynamically created archives of all the other posts which used that same word or phrase.
Hello.
It would have to have a few features to make it work. First off, it would have to offer a blacklist of too-common words like “and” and “the” that we could add to and personalize. It’s sensitivity would have to be adjustable also.
I really think it would solve the problem of outdated material. Once something is posted it’s forgotten and that sucks. When I’m in a conversation I’m alaways pulling up pieces of old thoughts and making them new again. That’s how we think, how we communicate- why not make it a more natural process for blogging?
January 21st, 2005 at 2:40 pm
Sounds like a great idea Ed.
I think that in order to make it work well you would need to define keywords for each post that you write so that in the future new posts would know what to link to.
January 21st, 2005 at 3:44 pm
I think what you did in your own post worked for me. Plus, if your old posts don’t have specific timelines mentioned, then I bet you could re-post and no one would know it was recycled material.
And yeah, I can’t get trackbacks to work worth a shit myself.
January 22nd, 2005 at 8:05 pm
There already is such a plugin for Movable Type - it’s called MTMacros. It’s what I use to create those pop-ups on my kids’ names. I also use it to auto-link my wife’s name to her blog.
Let me know if you need help configuring your blog to make this work.
January 22nd, 2005 at 8:08 pm
FWIW, this won’t do auto-linking. However, there is also a plug-in called RelatedEntriesByKeyword that lets you use keywords to display archived posts that are relevant to the current post. I think there’s also a plugin that will do the same thing, but do it by performing a search on the MT archives instead. I haven’t used it, though.
Also, I use a neat PHP hack for searches that will search your blog when someone comes in from a search engine and display related entries. I find that very useful in highlighting old posts.
January 23rd, 2005 at 2:03 am
I’m just posting because I will be doing so on Ed Adkin’s blog and my comment will be right below Zero Boss’. I’m at the nexus of the blog celebrity universe!