Well Now, THAT Is Slick!
or Blinky Links for All
All Guinness has become the my patron saint. I ask, he delivers.
In response to something I'd mentioned a while ago, he linked up his blogs into a matrix of connections. Mouse over me and you get All Guiness, Anger Management, Everyday Stranger and Sedalina.
His first implementation was a box that lit up and was cool but a bit unwieldy. Now its just highlighted text and it works very nicely.
It is a very neat trick.
But there was no way I was going to handcode it myself because, well, I don't know how to. So he whipped up an interface for it and now its almost automated with the "heavy lifting" done for you. After cutting and pasting links and names, you'll have to work through the matrix and set the connections.
With a little work you can now mouse over the top list of links under Regular Reads and it should light up like a Christmas tree with the interlinked blogs.
If this could get completely automated then it could become one of the coolest blog add-ons ever.
I wonder if I should wait a few days before posting it to Metafilter or just toss it up there now with some warning that I am involved (otherwise they will tend to attack like yipping punt dogs).
I'm not the first on the block to get the new toy but I can take solace in the fact that I am the second.
Thanks, Guiness!
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or Blinky Links for All
All Guinness has become the my patron saint. I ask, he delivers.
In response to something I'd mentioned a while ago, he linked up his blogs into a matrix of connections. Mouse over me and you get All Guiness, Anger Management, Everyday Stranger and Sedalina.
His first implementation was a box that lit up and was cool but a bit unwieldy. Now its just highlighted text and it works very nicely.
It is a very neat trick.
But there was no way I was going to handcode it myself because, well, I don't know how to. So he whipped up an interface for it and now its almost automated with the "heavy lifting" done for you. After cutting and pasting links and names, you'll have to work through the matrix and set the connections.
With a little work you can now mouse over the top list of links under Regular Reads and it should light up like a Christmas tree with the interlinked blogs.
If this could get completely automated then it could become one of the coolest blog add-ons ever.
I wonder if I should wait a few days before posting it to Metafilter or just toss it up there now with some warning that I am involved (otherwise they will tend to attack like yipping punt dogs).
I'm not the first on the block to get the new toy but I can take solace in the fact that I am the second.
Thanks, Guiness!
