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Leveraging del.icio.us for the lazzy blogger

I bet that like me, you come across several interesting stuff across the web everyday that you would like to blog about, but you just don't have enough time, not to mention the fact that your posts would be most of the time as short as the URL of the link you want to share.

Wouldn't it be simpler to have a tool where you would "save" links as you come across them during the day, and then let it automatically blog for you at night?

Here comes del.icio.us to the rescue. You may already use it for bookmarking. If not, I highly recommend that you try it for yourself. A relatively unknown feature is that of daily links blogging, which you can configure in your del.icio.us settings. Once you have set it up, it will automatically post to your blog (through an XML-RPC interface) the links that you have added the same day. You will see this in this category of my blog.

The setup is very simple, but I suggest that you follow those tips.

1. Create a blog author especially for del.icio.us, so that you don't give away your own username and password...
2. Create a category for your daily links.
3. When you tag a link on del.icio.us, remember to add a description as it will appear next to the link in the generated blog posts. This will be much nicer for your readers (I did not do that for my first daily links entry).