Ray Slakinsky of iPodderX Transistr fame dropped me a note last week to let me know that he’s using the Live Clipboard subscribe tool on his blog as well.
That’s great! There’s two of us now!
Now I know there were a lot more than two of us that got excited by Ray’s announcement – but I don’t see the Scissors proliferating like I’d hoped they would.
C’mon folks! Its been over a week! You should be all over this meme! I would have expected everyone who’s everyone to have the scissors on their blogs.
“What,” you say. “Its too hard?”
Hmmm. What can we do about that.
I know – how about a Blogrolling Live Clipboard RSS Chiclet generator thingy?
No sooner than the thought had coalesced into a neat little gaseous bubble over my head had Tom and his gang whipped up a quick script to make it happen!
You can see the results over at liveclipboard.blogrolling.com.
Why do you want to do this? Multiple choice time.
- to make the web a better place
- to make your blog a better place.
- its cool, all the kids are doing it.
- all of the above.
The correct answer is printed upside down at the bottom of this post.
How does this make the web and your blog better? It makes it brain dead simple for people to subscribe to your RSS feed in the web-based aggregators that support the Liveclipboard format. Over time, this will lead to other services that support Liveclipboard functionality and before you know it, we’ll all be living in a marvelously cool cut and paste webthreedotoh world. It will also cut down on the proliferation of those nasty chiclets that everyone is forced to use. Would you rather have sixteen RSS icons on your blog or one? Well, once the new format catches on, this tool will makes it easy to get rid of the sixteen differents ways to subscribe, and replace it with just one.
I’ve implemented the new RSS cliplet here at byte.org, and soon, on the other blogs I’m responsible for. Rumor has it that Joey might even be jumping on the bandwagon.
If you are looking to test if your new Liveclipboard subscription function works, you can test it out on the Liveclipboard drop-pad that we implemented in “Rolling Start”. You will need an account, but its free and easy to sign up (regular old username and password stuff). You can paste any RSS subscription onto the drop pad icon (picture on the left side of this post…)
I think we’ve still got some problems with Safari, but other than that, everything seems to be working fairly well. If you have any problems, drop me a note.
Now what about getting the rest of you to adopt Liveclipboard subscriptions? Hopefully collegial encouragement works.If it doesn’t there’s always public humiliation. It would be pretty easy to create a list of bloggers who said “wow cool Ray” and then promptly did nothing about it. Maybe even a Blogroll that other bloggers could use to syndicate the word throughout the Blogosphere….hmmm.
