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

The Mumpsimus: 2046
What do programmers feel about their software?: “I’ve written a little program to find out. It works by extracting the comments from the source code and feeding them into Synesketch, a textual emotion recognition and visualization engine.” [via]
NYT: The Ethics of Letterman’s Palin Joke
Kristof: It’s Time to Learn From Frogs: Today’s most disappointing headline.
Guitar Trio
The Evolution of House Cats: “This drift led to the emergence of the Korat, the Siamese, the Birman and other ‘natural breeds,’ which were described by Thai Buddhist monks in a book called the Tamara Maew (meaning ‘Cat-Book Poems’) that may date back to 1350.”
80s Sax Solos: Saxophone solos from 1980s pop music, scored and categorized. [via]
U.S. Patent 5255452: Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion: “A system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas: “The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, in 1973-74… However, the DHI has been out of print for many years. Aware of the new potential offered by electronic access to texts, the Directors and Board [etc.] authorized a grant to support digitization of the DHI. “
FiveThirtyEight: George F. Will Admits Public Option Will Cut Costs: “What Will’s position reflects instead is ideology: who cares that the federal government could build a better mousetrap? They’re the government and that’s bad. His argument is really no more sophisticated than that.”
Wandering Rocks: A Summer of Ulysses: An online Joyce reading group. Sample: “In perhaps the biggest ‘wah-wah’ moment in western literature, after Dedalus’ dramatic resolution to leave Dublin at the end of Portrait to go to Paris to become a famous writer, we find him back in Dublin at the beginning of Ulysses having completely flubbed his escape, slumming in a tower with a bunch of douchebags.”
Chris Rock’s Top 25 Hip Hop Albums: “For my money, Liquid Swords is the best Wu-Tang Clan album. It’s like the Songs in the Key of Life of rap.” [via]
Socialist Film Review
Flickr set: Iran Streets After Elections: [via]
Modernist minotaurs: “Not only did the Minoan past provide inspiration to the modern movement, it was itself a modernist structure, enfolding past and present into a closed loop of aesthetic self-referentiality.” [via]

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.