Bookmarking individual posts
I recently added a page to my site where I can keep a list of interesting articles and posts that I want to read. Mostly these come from weblogs and news sites, many of which are hopping on the RSS/RDF/XML/FOAF/etc. bandwagon. The script I wrote to track this bookmarks requires me to input any info I have about the link by hand. So far I enter the title (or make one up if there isn’t one), the author, and the URL. This gets parsed using Perl, and included in my page using SSI. Nothing special. Then it hit me. Most of these articles are about metadata and the handling of such. Why the hell do I have to put all this junk in by hand?! Most of the metadata I want is laying around in these sites already. Most have RSS/RDF feeds which specify who wrote an article, when they wrote it (posted it), where they posted it (permanent link), and the title (if it exists). So my next question is pretty basic: how the hell do I yank this stuff out and use it?