Things that made me happy this morning:

I just arrived in Atlanta for Georgia Tech University hack day and the weather is awesome. I spent the day in the sun in cafes writing my slides for the Mix10 conference next week and now I am going through my feeds. So time for another TTMMHTM:

• YouTube is changing its URLs – this didn’t really make me happy but it means I know why some people cannot use Easy YouTube at the moment and I know now that it is easy to fix.
• Google released a Public Data Directory taking government data and running it through the visualization API to allow you to directly embed charts into your pages. The Guardian’s World Government Data collection is still much more detailed but well done Google.
• The Humunga Stache Dog Toy makes me wish I had a dog to mess with.
• Carsonified/ThinkVitamin released my article on GeoExplorer and using Yahoo’s geo technology
• Creative people rock: 45 robots build with everyday trash
• Packrati.us is a service to automatically add URLs you tweet about to del.icio.us – this saves me some time!
• RadarVirtuel is a live map of aircraft and where they are right at this moment, where they came from and where they are headed.
• What do you suggest? takes a seed from you (or gives you something random) then guides you on a journey through language and the collective lives of Google users.
• GestureCons are a set of icons for touch-screen devices. My favourite is the two finger slide which in England doesn’t go down well as it also is the two finger salute

If you scroll down the older entries of this blog you’ll see that there is a new feature, namely a box that shows reader tags and a link to del.icio.us:

This is not a WordPress plugin (although it would be easy to make and i’d be amazed if it hadn’t been done) but pure JavaScript. You can also download the script that does this and use the following to embed it in any page you’d like to know the delicious data for:

<div id="deliciousinfo"></div>
<script src="deliciousinfo.js"></script>

There is not much magic going on here, I basically souped up the example on the del.icio.us site,minified and embedded Paul Johnson’s implementation of MD5 in JavaScript and created the necessary HTML.

The HTML structure inside the DIV will be a definition list with tags as dd’s and the text as the dt and a paragraph with a link. You can style it by using the #deliciousinfo ID.

I like the outcome and I am always amazed what good tags readers of my stuff come up with. If you want to know, get the src commented version and check the information in there.

Shall I create a WordPress plugin for this?

Edit: if you wondered what the difference to the tagometer is, there isn’t much, I just forgot about it….