Wed, April 27, 2005
"Buzzworthify" bookmarklet—2:43 PM
As I mentioned before, one of the new ways that I'm motivating myself to complete the onebee overhaul as quickly as possible is by making the new system so much easier and more fun to use that my desire to switch over to a new and better future compels me to finish the work as fast as I can. The newest little tidbit of the strategy is a "bookmarklet" that I've created to speed up the process of posting the Buzzworthy links.
A bookmarklet is a little snippet of code which can be stored in your web browser like a regular bookmark but, when clicked, it invokes some kind of dynamic action. Easily the most primitive bookmarklets are those which copy some information from the current broswer view and pass it to another page. They have 'em at del.icio.us and TinyURL: install the bookmarklet, then click it while viewing any page and it'll automatically fill the proper information into the form on their site.
The "Buzzworthify" bookmarklet in action.
So now (not now, but soon!) I'll have the same capability, making it that much easier for me to share things in the Buzzworthy box as I'm surfing around the web. Already, I groan every time I post links using the "old" (current) admin site. The "old baby" mentality has set in, hard core. But I'm restraining myself from adding the feature to the current site – it's the yearning for the wonderful newness that spurs me on!
