Comments for Request: Tool that lists recently-linked websites

Comment from Pete Holiday on 2005-01-24

2005-01-24T17:03:07Z

Seems like that'd be simple enough, but where would it pull the info? RSS feeds? Straight from the DB? From the site itself? And what would it do with the list when it's done?

Comment from Jack Vinson on 2005-01-24

2005-01-24T20:48:49Z

I was thinking that it would happen during the new post process, so probably from the database. In Movable Type, this kind of thing would look like another container with attributes. Soemthing like:

formatting for each link

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2005-01-25T14:07:02Z

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Comment from Brian Del Vecchio on 2005-02-10

2005-02-10T22:39:06Z

Many people are using the community bookmarking service Del.icio.us for this sort of thing. There are plenty of hints out there for how to display links from Del.icio.us, but I don't know of anyone having done the "parse my local content looking for a/@href" part. I do it manually for my blog.

Here are some links to get you started:
http://del.icio.us/tag/del.icio.us+movable-type

Comment from jackvinson on 2006-01-09

2006-01-09T19:03:05Z

This is possible. Use the MTCollect plugin from staggernation. The usage examples include a "listing recent links" example that I'm using in my sidebar on the blog home page.