[Warning: Probably of zero interest to non-nerd bloggers, and even then…]
I like sharing links quickly via Twitter (and thus Facebook), and later–time permitting–I copy, paste, and sort those links into groups that I can share here. Other times I’ll use Instapaper to capture links that I’m not quite ready to share.
Trouble is, it takes a non-trivial amount of time to scan back through either list, then copy/paste/etc. Thus my sharing of links via the blog has dropped dramatically. (Sorry/you’re welcome, depending.)
Would you by chance know of a way to automate converting tweets and/or Instapaper (or similar) links into blog-ready form, making it easy to sort them into piles? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
take a look at http://ifttt.com/ to automate your linking habits
maybe trough iftt.com? there you can link certain services together…
If you use mac os (I should know this, after following your blog for a couple of years), you could build an Automator workflow/app/service to mine the URLs from either a web page (get link URLs from articles perhaps) or from a text (I don’t use instapaper so not sure of format) document using ‘Extract Data from Text’ as part of the workflow. I know it’s do able, but without seeing exactly what your trying to do, it’s difficult to be more specific.
This Dartmouth political scientist seems to have an automated solution: http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/. If you take a look you may be able to figure out what he’s doing. Failing that, he’s a good guy, and you should ask him.
I don’t fully understand what you’re trying to accomplish, but I won’t let that won’t stop me from making suggestions.
How about using “If This Then That” (IFTTT) to append to a dropbox file (or something) when you tweet a link or somesuch. I mean, you could roll your own but IFTTT might save you a bit of work.
definitely possible. I’m looking into it,cause I have the same issue a lot.