I keep up with the world via Google Reader (as you may have discovered when I posted a link to my shared items in the last post). I also store bookmarks on del.icio.us. So I was quite excited (in a geeky sort of way to which I will only admit here where few will see it) a while back to discover that Bill Burcham had written up “a Google Reader Del.icio.us Tagging bookmarklet — a Gordita” which allows one to bookmark any post or article from inside of Reader. (A bookmarklet, for those of you who don’t know looks like any other bookmark in your browser, but is actually a bit of Javascript that does something cool. Or maybe something annoying, but the cool ones are better.)
As I’m also planning to breath a bit more life into this blog, I decided I needed a bookmarklet that would work similarly only sending the info to that wonderful blogging software, ecto instead of del.icio.us. While ecto provides it’s own handy “ectoize” link, using that would just grab Google Reader, not whatever bit of brilliance I was reading inside of it. As I am far too confident in my coding ability (see, I can even speak of it with a straight face) (well, of course you can’t see because I’m too lazy to include a picture, but if I did…), I dove into those two jungles of javascript, hacked, slashed, and returned with what I refer to as gorecto. Nothing too amazing, but if you also use Google Reader and ecto, hopefully it will be of some help. (Thanks to Bill for Gordita and Adriaan Tijsseling for ecto!)
Glad you found Gordita interesting Jason. It is cool to see the idea being adapted to more bookmark management technologies. I also did a thing similar to your Gorecto but for the Pukka application on the Macintosh. It’s called Pukkadita . aside: Pukka is a little application that lets you easily target bookmarks to multiple del.icio.us accounts. It hooks the browser in a manner similar to the way ecto does — with a ‘pukka:’ URL “scheme”.
I wonder if there is an opportunity to consolidate all this functionality: Gordita, Gorecto, Pukkadita… or at least adopt a consistent naming scheme :) Let’s think on that.
-Bill
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