Behind the facade
Though there shouldn’t be any obvious signs on the front page, some things have changed under the hood. In the past i’ve used wordpress’ linkmanager to administer the list-linkage part of the site, but it became more and more apparent that it doesn’t fit my needs at all. The linkmanager in wordpress is meant to help you build your blogroll and i can imagine that it’s quite useful for that purpose, though i don’t really know as i don’t maintain a blogroll yet and don’t intend to do so anytime soon.
While a blogroll is essentially a list of permanent bookmarks, list-linkage is what simon willison calls blogmarks, a list of temporary public bookmarks. I decided to put them on my site for two reasons: first, i thought some of them might be of interest to others, and second, i don’t know of any browser whose bookmark management handles temporary bookmarks decently. As the one main characteristic common to all blogs is usually considered the reverse-chronological ordering of entries, it appears as a natural choice to publish ones temporary bookmarks as a linklog, so list-linkage on this blog was born.
I’ve spent the evening writing a tiny script to maintain my linklog and the list-linkage is now powered by this script. It’s very untested and will most likely add some additional trouble when i upgrade my wordpress installation, but for the moment i’m quite happy with it. I plan to add more features to my linklog script like an rss feed and decent archiving, but for the moment i kinda lack the time to do that stuff. As always, if you encounter any problems, please contact me.
Plans for further improvements to the site include a moblog, adding categories, categorizing all previous posts and upgrading to wordpress 1.0. Regarding the last point i’d like to mention that the wordpress developers posted a note on the wordpress download page that due to numerous reports of problems with the current 1.0 release there are plans for a 1.0.1 release, so i’ll most likely wait for that one.
Finally a sincere recommendation: don’t try to get serious site maintenance work done on 56k.
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