The most notable and major issue that arose during determining how to do this was ‘How to share only items that I have added a note to?’ While the ‘Shared Items‘ have one feed, each tag can also have an individual feed, but items with a note aren’t broke down into their individual feed. Thus, I decided that the feed needed to be manipulated and to do this I used Yahoo Pipes to manipulate the feed. I essentially created a pipe that would take my ‘Shared Items‘ feed and filter out items that did not contain ‘text’ within the content element under ‘item.gr:annotation.content.content’. The pipe then loops through the filtered content placing ‘blockquotes’ around the content and not my comments. That final loop was just for display purposes.

To implement the output as a post in WordPress I used the ‘wp-o-matic‘ plug-in. This plug-in lets you create a campaign, which will check an RSS feed for updates (using a variety of methods) and then create individual posts. The plug-in does have the ability to configure how the post is displayed in a variety of ways. However, there is one issue with the current version, the plug-in does not fetch any items in a Yahoo Pipes feed or any feed with an ‘&’ in the URL. Currently, any URL that contains an ampersand will have the ampersand get converted to its encoded URL value, so an ‘&’ will get converted to ‘&’. To fix this: In the wp_campaign_feeds table in your WordPress database find the erroneous URL and update the ‘&’ to ‘&’ and you should be all set.

As I said above, I will be continuing to tweak this as time permits.

I could install the Quickpost plug-in for WordPress to avoid using Tumblr, but I haven’t ventured in that direction yet. I’m interested to keep my Tumblr blog updated and see how easy it is to post from my iPhone. I’d also like to at some point start posting more pictures from my phone to the web, we’ll see if I eventually get that crazy.

The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.

Ahem.

That is all.