IU Technology Architecture Lodge

IU Technology Architecture Lodge
Random and not so random thoughts from Raymond Yee, primarily on the scholarly and educational use of the Web, libraries, educational technology, and information management

IU Technology Architecture Lodge

Friday, November 11, 2005

Copying from clipboard to blog via a script #

I usually use my wiki as the place I gather information and compose my thoughts. After I have a piece that I feel is worth pushing out to my blog, I copy the HTML and paste it into one of my blogs. This final process turns out to be more tedious than one would think, thus keeping me from "publishing" materials to my blogs as often as I would like.

As part of my thinking about operating system clipboard (a topic on which I will elaborate later), I wrote some tools to make it easier for me to move content between my wiki and my blog. I can now:

write in my wiki

copy the stuff I want to move to my blog to my clipboard

invoke a script that will clean up the HTML on my clipboard and drop it on my blog.

Let me do a screencast to demonstrate this process in action.

To make this demo more convincing, let me drop in some pictures too (mine from Nov 8):

Posted by Raymond Yee on 11/11/05; 12:16:48 PM
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