Developing some ideas for authoring in Plone with live embeds from 'my content outside'

03-November-2005

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Have a look over in my elearning2.0 blog for (a) some further improvements towards a more usable KNotes discussion system, and (b) the initial development of some ideas and techniques about portal content development. The basic idea is to make it as easy as possible for ordinary end-users to pull live links-lists, photos, etc from their 'content outside' - their del.icio.us bookmarks, flickr photos, etc. A long blog post details one trick that works now in any CMS, giving hot examples. Comments on that blog entry are beginning to work out the design of a Plone product and a kupu plugin tool to make such functionality even easier, more powerful, and more polite to external service resources.

I've been writing in my elarning2.0 blog about some tips and ideas for creating mashed-up 'inside and outside' content:

The editors of the NGRF site have been 'getting' the power of social-bookmarking lately, and have started to assemble a useful resource at their del.icio.us account. While drafting an email to them about options for leveraging that resource within the NGRF site, it occurred to me that a very easy technique already exists for bringing 'live' links lists into discursive site content, using the javascript linkroll feature from del.icio.us itself. This post explains how to do that.

elearning2.0 | So dumb it's smart: how to embed live lists from del.icio.us tags in your own textual content

see also this comment on that post: -- Oh and by the way, regular followers of knotes development should notice that some progress has been made towards usability of the discussion system... much more to come, but I think you'll agree that the new way of displaying comments and trackbacks is at least nice-looking and straightforward.

I've been meaning to post another big blog entry about this but have no time. I've had some thoughts towards designing very simple Plone add-ons that would make this even easier for end-users, give them access to their content/tag streams from flickr, furl and other social-software services, and cache the RSS within their local portal, sparing del.icio.us bandwidth. It would also overcome the glitchiness of having javascript-based writing into the document, with round-trips from another, site during pageload. We do not have time to write these now, but I'll try to elaborate on the design as soon a I can.

Some ideas for simple plone work to make this easier, more flexible and more efficient

Mike Malloch; 03-November-2005 08:04:46; forum (0) help

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