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title: "Of metalinks, linkbacks, and Cocoa AmphetaDesk"
date: 2002-05-29T14:51:23-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/05/29/oooaff/
author: Les Orchard
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# Of metalinks, linkbacks, and Cocoa AmphetaDesk

<p>Still busy busy, but had to drop in for a minute to try out the <a href="http://www.thinkblank.com/metalinker/">Metalinker</a> code here.  Two wishlist items: 1) Maybe use a micro-icon for the metalink, and 2) some indication of the number of links to the link on Blogdex would be hot, maybe even a green-through-red series of micro-icons for the link.  Could maybe count the links on the blogdex page via some sort of scraping, but that would require some server-side stuff since I doubt the client-side can do it.  (Or I just don't know enough modern browser scripting lately.)</p>
<p>Because of the obvious connections, this makes me want to get back to my <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/ShowReferersNextGen">new-and-improved linkback implementation</a> very soon.  That'll be next after I tie up this Cocoa <a href="http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk">AmphetaDesk</a> wrapper.  (Actually got it 2/3 done last night, yay!)</p>
<p>Back to work.</p>
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                <a href="#comment-221087731" class="permalink"><time datetime="2002-05-29T20:43:46">2002-05-29T20:43:46</time></a>
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            <div class="content">You've got some nice Ideas on the wish list. I just wanted to say thanks for inspiring my to create my own linkback hack. I just finished it up last night, and was 100% inspired todo it after i say it in action here.</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221087732" class="permalink"><time datetime="2002-05-30T07:59:57">2002-05-30T07:59:57</time></a>
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            <div class="content">I'm seeing a "null is not an object" javascript error when visiting the individual post pages. Not seeing it on the main blog.

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