Blogging made easier with a bit of code

What is a blogging bookmarklet? It is a piece of code you put on the bookmarks or favorites toolbar of your browser. When you want to grab a quote fromm an article on the net, all you have to do is :

(1) highlight the text
(2) click on the bookmarklet

What the javacript in the code will do is pull-out the text highlighted text as a blockquote with a link back to the page; including the title of the article (if it is available on the page's source code).

So take this culturekitchen Blog It! bookmarklet and drop it in your Safari or Firefox browser.

If you have a bit of a problem dropping it in, you can manually create a bookmark in both browsers by dropping the code in the URL section of a bookmark.

javascript:u=document.location.href;t=document.title;s=window.getSelection();pre='<br /> <blockquote>'+escape('<a href=%22')+escape(u)+escape('%22>')+escape(t) + escape('</a></p> </p></blockquote> <p>'); void(window.open(%22http://www.culturekitchen.com/node/add/blog?edit[title]=%22+escape(t)+'&edit[body]='+pre+escape(s),'_blank','width=1024,height=768,status=yes,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes'));<br />

The best part of this is that if you are using Firefox and have the Browser Sessions extension, you can save a draft of your post-in-progress with the help of this little widget.

Holler if you have any questions.