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  "title": "Pulling the Linkmobile back into the garage",
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  "html": "<p>As a follow-up to <a href=\"http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/02/07/hows-my-link-driving\">Tuesday's post</a>, I've disabled the nightly link post as of now and turned off the links category on the main page template.  </p>\n<p>I got a surprising amount of good and friendly feedback on the change in comments, IMs, and emails.  And, the balance to me sounds like there are people who <em>sorta</em> liked the change and a lot of people just plain turned off by it—the nays were louder than the yeas.  I was on the fence, leaning toward dislike, so down go the links.</p>\n<p>I'd still like to reintegrate <a href=\"http://del.icio.us/deusx\">my link posting output on del.icio.us</a> into this site in some other fashion soon, because that's where the bulk of my hasty blogging happens these days.  In the course of writing <a href=\"http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/12/14/hacking-delicious-is-a-real-book\">this new book</a>, I've got a panoply of other options available from sidebars to AJAX-powered geegaws.  I've also considered pulling <a href=\"http://decafbad.com/trac/wiki/FeedMagick\">FeedMagick</a> into the mix to offer a \"build your own\" remixed feed option, but I've not yet had the ambition to deliver on that.</p>\n<p>So sorry link fans, it's back to the status quo for me, for now.</p>\n<!-- tags: metablogging links delicious ajax feedmagick geegaws -->\n\n",
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