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It appears that the RSS for the Arbitrary Secondaries is not so much broken, but misformated. I think the way Kottke has it set up is that each link/mini-comment is its own entry. It appears you've put all your links links into one entry. Kottke--I'm guessing here--set it up so that the comment appears in the Main Entry field, and the URL he's commenting on appears in the Extended Entry field of MT (and in the RSS template, changed the 'content' of the <link> in the RSS from the <$MTEntryPermalink$> to <$MTEntryMore convert_breaks="0"$>). Does that make any sense? I'd be more helpful/coherent if I wasn't on my way to bed.

Jason and I both put the target URL in the body field, the link description (if any, I almost always use them, Jason rarely does) in the Extended field, and teh link text is the Title of the post. Not that there's any "right" way to do it, but I figured I'd explain what works for me.

Thanks, Richard, but I literally threw this together tonight in a couple of hours. I haven't even touched the RSS template yet, it's the default that ships with MT. I'll take a look at that after some shuteye, but I probably won't get the same functionality they are. I'm using a macro in NoteTab Pro to record the URL's and descriptions from the clipboard as I surf, not using a bookmarklet. So there's no entry title or extended entry field, just some text, and a link with a title attribute.

Thanks for the tip, Anil, I figured you had a system. But the only way I'm going to be able to do this is if it is as simple as possible. As simple as the bookmarklet is, the macro is simpler. Every time you copy a URL, a dialog pops up asking for a text description to build the link. Type it in, and hit enter. I can do that all day, then pop the resulting links into an entry. All I have to add is the title attirbute and text. Keeping it simple hopefully will mean that I'll keep it up.

Are you going to have an index page of *just* Arbitrary Secondaries at http://www.photodude.com/arbitrary/ similar to Jason and Anil?

Yes, and I haven't fixed the feed yet either. My new mistress has been seducing me of all my spare time. She is so good. But I am planning on doing much further tweaking on this, I just have too many "new things" right now.

OK, both the index and the RSS have received some attention and appear to be at least functional (at least, the RSS works the way I want in Amphetadesk).

And there was much rejoicing. (Works nicely in Syndirella.)