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Ⅰ am not sure if this is possible at all – but would it not be nice to have a (spam safe) way of converting incoming referrer-URLs to trackbacks/pingbacks? So you know when a blog post has been linked to on del.icio.us or so.

Make it talk to SpamKarma and ReferrerKarma, use whitelists for URLs that you would like to have added as linkbacks… something, anything?

Or maybe we can convince Joshua to have del.icio.us post a pingback including a back-link to a page that lists all users and tags the page has been filed under.

And while we are at it: is there such a thing as a trackback/pingback to just the blog and not an individual entry?

Ⅰ was just thinking about how cool it would be to have a lazyweb-like system to get software feature requests out to mac developers (shareware, freeware as well as the folks at infinity loop).

Maybe it would be useful to start like this? Just trackback to here (http://www.dekay.org/blog/archives/mac-software-requests/trackback) and we can collect stuff for anyone to see/use? If Ⅰ find some time Ⅰ may set up a copy of Ben’s Lazyweb for this purpoose, although Ⅰ think there should be quite some other way to do this. Namely the features Ⅰ am missing are:

• Tagging. Let each poster include certain tags so the whole request site is easier to browse.
• Back-Linking (Lazyweb does this)
• Auto-Updating (when someone changes their original posts)
• Comments and threaded discussions. Have multiple authors trackback/ping the original entry and then have a threaded view on the main site.

As Ⅰ have written previously Ⅰ would love to have some way of tagging functionality in iTunes.

Right now my setting looks a bit like this:

• Ⅰ use the „Grouping“ field for my tags. The tags Ⅰ am currently using are things like „slow fox“ or „rumba“ as Ⅰ am currently cataloging my collection of ballroom dance music. But Ⅰ will be using tags like „electro“ or „typical latino“ or whatever to actually describe the styles of the songs – just to get much better and faster search functionality when Ⅰ really need to find some music that is similar, e.g. when Ⅰ am preparing music to play at a dancesport competition.
• There are some cool apple scripts out that allow adding and deleting single tags from the fields „grouping“ or „comments“. The scripts Ⅰ use are really useful, but far from really what Ⅰ want (see below). Nevertheless – they are pretty close in functionality and the only thing that is out there (yet.)

What Ⅰ really would like:

• A posting interface like the experimental posting popup from del.icio.us. The features Ⅰ want are:
  • simple tag creation. just type the tag into some form field and it is created
  • re-use of old tags. show a list of tags that Ⅰ have used before, and make them clickable!
  • make the selected tags stand out from the list so Ⅰ can de-select them again!
• Some additional features for the interface:
  • Give me the choice to group tags. e.g. „Dance“ (would group Waltz, Cha-cha, Salsa). This way Ⅰ can easily select tags that are sorted in categories.
  • Give me the choice to rename tags easily.
• Some other stuff Ⅰ would love to do with these tags:
  • playlist creation based on tags – easy, fast and useful – a „there is no step 3″-approach.
  • find similarities based on tags, make music recommendations, hey, make shuffle take into account music similarity and/or diversity! (How about a setting that goes like: shuffle my music, make 5 songs similar then completely switch to a different style and do another 5 songs!)

Ⅰ am looking for a way to integrate flickr and wordpress and so far my google-search has given me the following options:

1. Flickr Post. This plugin takes one of your own pictures at flickr with a tag that looks similar to your post’s slug. BAD: this pollutes your tag namespace at flickr… and you can only use your own pics.
2. FlickrRSS; allows you to display a flickr style badge (for a tag, user, user tag or group pool) on your page.
3. Flickr Tags, seems a bit better as it allows more control, but again, just your own pics or pics for a bunch of tags…
4. Flickr Insert, a sibling of Flickr Tags, caches thumbnails locally.
5. Flickr Gallery helps you create your photo gallery on your site using flickr hosting.
6. Flickr Photos may be much more versatile. It enables you to post flickr pics in multiple sizes via a markdown style syntax – and you can access pics by a flickr ID – hopefully by number.

What Ⅰ really am looking for is a plugin like wp-amazon that opens an extra window from the posting interface where you can search for pics on flickr and maybe google images – and then insert this pic into your blog post. Anyone care to write a plugin like this? Contact me if there is a beta to test!

All-right, Ⅰ admit it – Ⅰ am guilty of posting quite a bunch of stuff to the lazyweb. Some other do so as well – but even though the service is really great (thanks to Ben for creating it in the first place) – Ⅰ believe there is another way.

Why not just post your blog entries to a category called „lazyweb“ or include technorati tag „lazyweb“? (You could also trackback to lazyweb.org, but… that defeats my point, if there is one.). This would

1. reduce the number of „empty“ requests to Ben’s site – which are annoying but only slightly.
2. It may increase visibility as there are many more people in the know about technorati.
3. It gives people the chance to post to lazyweb through many different mechanisms, blogs, flickr, furl, del.icio.us …

Basically it would replicate most of what Ben already has – you see a list of posts/questions, see a link to the original post. What you lose is the ability to comment on a question directly on „the lazyweb“ – but then Ⅰ am not so sure if anyone ever used this? (It would be quite useful if Ben’s lazyweb-comment system would trackback back to the original poster’s site, too..)

Ah, just wondering. Actually there is no need for people posting to the web to change much, just add that technorati tag and/or the category.

But what needs changing is the visibility to the blogosphere as well as an adopted reader behavior. Will we finally be able to get some forumness and usenet into blogs?