---
title: "Linkblog added to sidebar"
date: 2003-12-22
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Linkblog added to sidebar

I’m doing some incremental changes to the site. First up, I added [my linkblog](https://web.archive.org/web/20040216101347/http://ideas.readwriteweb.com/) to the sidebar. I use my linkblog to save links, ideas and memes that interest me. Hence its name: **Web of Ideas**. It’s a Movable Type site and the search functionality in particular makes it very worthwhile. Often when I’m thinking about a topic, I’ll search my linkblog and look back at the links I’ve stashed there.

Because it’s frequently updated, *Web of Ideas* is a good guide to what I’m thinking about at any one time. So I figured it belonged in my main weblog as well. Radio users may be interested to know I used the [xml.rss.renderWithTemplate](https://web.archive.org/web/20040216101347/http://docserver.userland.com/xml/rss/renderWithTemplate) verb to achieve this (found via [Radio Keola](https://web.archive.org/web/20040216101347/http://radio.weblogs.com/0001196/rssMacro.html)).

I’m in the middle of categorizing my main weblog content. I’m doing it in an OPML file and I plan to use XSLT to transform it into a topic navigation section. Right, off I go to do some categorizing…

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/12/22.html#a173))*