link-o-matic jr.
This is link-o-matic jr. Use the link-o-matic jr. to maintain a personal link log — a frequently updated list of links. The link-o-matic jr. is currently used by several sites associated with chompy.net. It is similar to del.icio.us, except that del.icio.us is better.
features
The link-o-matic jr. is not yet finished but is certainly usable.
- simple web interface
- support for multiple users
- give credit to your link sources with "via" links
- tag your links with freeform labels, and browse them using an interface suspiciously similar to flickr
- choose from two simple but versatile XHTML output templates — no need to learn a complex templating language
- output Javascript includes, for web sites that cannot use PHP or server-side includes
- syndicate your links using Atom 0.3 or RSS 2.0 feeds
- import links from another link blogging system using Atom or RSS feeds
- optional SmartyPants support
- optional posting using a bookmarklet
- optional cross-posting to your del.icio.us account, with tag support
not yet implemented
- permalinks and public archives
- trackback/pingback support (dependent on permalink support)
- Atom publication API support
- label autocomplete (not sure if I know how to do this)
known issues
- tabs optimized for Firefox, interface looks crappy on Safari and Opera
- label sizing algorithm on label list page doesn't scale well
- Atom feed items do not include correct permalink (dependent on permalink support)
sample link list for my testing purposes
- James Wood: Laurent Binet’s “HHhH” and Historical Fiction
- “But Binet does not seem aware that this trick of giving the impression that he is thinking the book through as he is writing it is one of the oldest tricks of novelistic verisimilitude: it is inseparable from the fraudulence of the first-person narrator, who is pretending to be speaking to the reader off the cuff even as the novel has been rewritten a thousand times by the laboring author.”
- Mexico: A guide to which parts are safe to travel to, and which are dangerous
- The True Bolaño
- An interview with Barbara Epler of New Directions.
- 3quarksdaily: Rethinking Lawns
- The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine
- ¡Ask a Mexican! Is Mitt Romney Really Part-Mexican?
- THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like The Fallen World
- “It’s no coincidence that the one man willing to lie about his savagery as an adolescent is the one running for president. In a sense, the modern political system selects for this kind of moral amnesia.”
- NYRB: The Myth About Marriage
- Linked because it’s interesting, though of course we must acknowledge that you are unlikely to sway any opponent of gay marriage through argument.
- NYRB: No Accountability for Torture
- Dalkey Archive Press on TV!
- [via]
- Nipples at the Met
- Descriptive Camera
- “This is a faded picture / of a dilapidated / building. It seems to be / run down and in the need of /repirs.”
- The Mind is a Metaphor
- Jonathan Sterne: What if Interactivity is the New Passivity?
- “What if all the bad things that media critics have been said about passivity for the past century or two are now equally applicable to all the demands to interact, to participate? What if interactivity is now one of the central hinges through which power works? In many moments today, the most compliant gesture we can make is to consent to interact on the terms presented to us by our software and machines. This pull is especially strong in those commercial platforms that celebrate their own difference from the so-called passive media of previous decades, and in the process monetize their users’ participation either directly or indirectly. What if—from time to time—we chose not to identify with the interactive promise of new media platforms or for that matter new media art?” [via]
- Where You Live Could Make Your Kids Fat
requirements
Server requirements:
- Python 2.2 or above
- A MySQL database
- Cheetah
- Feed Parser
- Python logging (included with Python 2.3 and up)
Client requirements:
- Standards-compliant browser, such as Mozilla Firefox
- Javascript enabled (optional)
license
This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL.
download
thanks
Thanks to pogo for testing lj.
contact
Brought to you by SNF Labs. My email address is jacob at spaceshipnofuture.org, and suggestions/patches are welcome. Go back to chompy.net or remake/remodel.