Fwarrrr

[petronia]

Occasionally I wend my way to Teaspoon and stare at the (currently) 917 pages of Tenth Doctor fanfic there. I don't mean read, I mean stare. At the layout. While pondering how the navigation could be designed in such a way as to not generate 917 HTML links per retrieved page. XD;; Not complaining as it doesn't ruin my life or anything, just... boggling.

(The categories/filters, too, which are comprehensive yet oddly... rigid?... idk I feel like the conceptual divides they imply are not actually how ppl write fanfiction about Doctor Who, though they might be how Doctor Who as a series is constructed, or even how ppl talk about it most of the time. But fanfiction exists to smear Doyleist chalk lines does it not. If ever a series ought to be all user-defined tag clouds, all the time, this is surely it. THE SEMANTICS OF ARCHIVE INTERFACE DESIGN, A FASCINATING TOPIC

Here is what I would like, I have decided:

* a separate del.icio.us account where I can tag the fic I read (almost an experiment, as it is I don't even know what it is I read)
* some way of getting said del.icio.us to post a digest to DW every [x] days

Thoughts on how to connect the tubes?

Comments

[charmian]

This might work?

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/785034.html

http://community.livejournal.com/deliciouslymad/

This comm may also help.

[petronia]

The lj_dev link looks a nightmare, tbh. XD; There's this but idk how it plays with LJ/DW.

The obviously workaround is to make del.icio.us post to a dedicated Twitter and then LoudTwitter that, but it's so... workaround-y.

[charmian]

I do see people using some kind of script, though, so I think it is possible w/o using Twitter, though?

Isn't there also this, though?

https://secure.delicious.com/settings/blogging/posting

[petronia]

Yeah, that was my other link. I don't know how to get that to play with LJ/DW.

[charmian]

Whoops... Looking into it, I don't think it's compatible with LJ/DW for some reason, and thus the php script they're using.

Alternatively I suppose you could make it work with a WP blog or something and then import the feed/crosspost?

Anyway, I asked on my DW, so maybe someone can help.

[charmian]

Someone replied to my post talking about Diigo, which can push links to both Delicious and LJ.

http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/332715.html

Here's a post talking about it.

late

[petronia]

This actually seems like it would work really well (with the bonus benefit of being a separate widget that can auto-post to a separate del.icio.us so I don't have to switch out of my "normal" del.icio.us, which I use regularly and purely non-socially XD). Now to spend time setting it up hurrrrrr.

[troisroyaumes]

Only thing I can think of is to program a script to get the Delicious RSS feed then post the links to DW by email? It's too bad that DW doesn't (yet?) have a feed importing feature like Tumblr does. (Though in Tumblr's case, it would probably make a post for every link rather than a digest...)

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

favorite DW fic subgenre is "thinly-disguised exegeses of Gallifreyan syntax"

Recs pls

/unhelpful

[troisroyaumes]

And I'm commenting again here to second canis_m's request!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well see that is why a dedicated del.icio.us would be useful!

(...Also in honesty this is prolly a specialty of the Doctor/Master ppl, them being the two last native speakers left. =_= The pet conceptual investigation of the Doctor/Rose ppl is parallel universes, the fantoddiness of which... there was one the other day where Rose found that in the Pete!verse where the Doctor had never been, the plots of all the famous novels were different, cos he'd meddled with the novelists. AAAUUUUGH)

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

The Doctor/Rose ppl do language pedagogy, though! I have seen it. I have linked you to it.

Speaking of recs and links, suspect it is still possible to do ye olde a href equals thing even in absence of a dedicated del.icio.us. So tiresome ikr. XD;

/insufferable

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I really want to! My problem is that I forget where stuff is to be found after I read it, and also that (if my experience w/ Trek holds) it takes me a ridic amount of time to write blurbs. There's a more arcane consideration which is that I read to figure out what ppl don't write then complain in my head about it. XD;

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

The Ninth and Tenth doctor have almost four times as many stories as all the rest of them combined XD. I guess the archive owners weren't expecting the sudden huge influx of new fans, so they didn't build a site that could accommodate them.

(It's 1,671 pages on my computer.)

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Oh whoops, you meant pages for just Tenth Doctor fic. There's 917... which means that David Tennant is on more than half of all pages?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I checked the news archive out of curiosity and it's been up and running since 2003 at the least. In 2003 if anyone had claimed there'd be an influx of tens of thousands of DW fics I expect they'd've been laughed out of fandom. XD;

It's not the only DW fic archive, even - the biggest and the most strictly moderated, I think. But yeah, insanely sprawling universes like DW are where AO3's every-possible-categorization-on-the-same-tag-level design really shines as the step forward it is.

(Tennant is on quite a bit more than half of all pages, since I'm sure he's in some of the multi-eras. XD)

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

You could just c&p the links from del.icio.us to dw every few days? Or simultaneously bookmark and put links in a separate text file?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

That'll be the fallback position, yeah... XD;