Klein Rants: “One thing I want to do is keep the ‘Labels’ of the new Blogger Beta a bit simple, but tag the heck out of my posts with Technorati tags. Technorati tags are inserted into the blog post itself with an HTML snippet. It is a pain to re-write this snippet every time I post, even with a post template of some pre-made sample tags.
Enter ThisService! I wrote a short Perl script that takes a list of comma-separated tags, and returns the proper HTML snippet to make that list into Technorati tags. I used ThisService to hook it into the services menu, and Voila!, painless Technorati tagging in my blog posts.”
Always fun to hear about ThisService scripts. Oh, and Teece? “Next up, a Perl script that does “smart quotes” and removes multiple spaces, but that is also smart enough to ignore quotes inside HTML tags” sounds very much like SmartyPants, drop-in compatible as a ThisService script, and written in Perl.
Have you made a useful ThisService script? Do tell in the comments.