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More tweaks
Monday, July 24, 2006 at 01:36 PM
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I am progressing on some of the improvements to the blog.
First, I've finally coded up the function to pull MT entry keywords and parse them up in order to build a Technorati tag list. Going forward, I'll be using Technorati tags for most of my posts.
Second, you'll notice that the Digg.com link functions somewhat differently. What I've been doing is selecting stories that I think are worthy to submit to Digg. Of course, you can submit a post of mine as well. The button for doing this is the greenish one that reads "Digg This Story".
But what if it has already been submitted by you or by me? Then you get an error that says that the story has already been submitted. If you've registered with Digg, and you like the story, you want to vote for it, right? This is a bit of a kludge, but what I've done is that if I know that the story has been submitted (either because I went ahead and did it myself, or because I see someone else has), I change the coding to display the Digg counter and voting button instead (it's a trick with the keywords, if you are interested).
The Digg counter tells you how many people have voted for the story. If you haven't voted for it, you have an opportunity to do so by clicking "Digg it!", but if you have voted for it, the button reads "dugg" and is disabled.
How do I know if the story has been submitted? That's a bit of a problem. Ultimately, the Digg API will provide that information (I hope), but for now I will occassionally search Digg for postings from my blog. If any have been added by you, my readers, I'll make the keyword change necessary to flip the Digg link from submission to voting. Of course, you can let me know by email or by a comment that you've submitted the post.
If any of you are Digg users, try the various links out and let me know if it works.
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