This wasn't automatic

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Brown aide Damian McBride's resignation: one more down for the bloggers

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

Starlog’s Final Entry

Jesus found in Lego

Caption Challenge: Barack Obama and Peter Rabbit

Jay Rayner reviews Time and Space, Royal Institution, London

Camera Obscura

“…And That’s Easter - On BBC North East & Cumbria!”

For ages, probably years, I've been looking for an easy way of dumping links into blog posts to record what I've been reading. I've looked at all kinds of ways of doing it automatically, emailing delicious links through feedburner, this and that. But nothing has really worked. There was something in 2004 which lasted for about a month, but even then all kinds of editing was required.

This wasn't automatic, but it worked:

(1) Installed the Firefox add-on Extended Copy Menu 1.6
(2) Scooched on down the sidebar of this blog to the list of Google Reader shared items under the heading 'sharing'
(3) Blocked some links. From today and a couple of others.
(4) Opened up the Blogger posting window.
(5) Paste.

I can't believe how easy that is. It does create a maze of html, but I can still add sources and offer some commentary if I'm in the mood:

Kristine Lowe: Brown aide Damian McBride's resignation: one more down for the bloggers

I can't believe people are surprised by this. The only difference between what happened here and between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown (as shown in Stephen Frears's film The Deal) is that the conversations happened in emails rather than verbally which meant they could be forwarded on.

Woman Who Talked Too Much: Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

This may be my favourite review.

Star Wars Blog: Starlog’s Final Entry

etc.

Of course, all of this is simply because Google seem to have cut back on Blogger's development and aren't adding features which the likes of Wordpress have had for years. I like Blogger, but this is silly.