After waiting more than a year for Del.icio.us to come out with some more support information on how to use its daily blog posting for Blogger blogs, I had given up on the idea. While this feature works on Wordpress and other blogs, many using Blogger have been discussing on how to get this work on their blogs. I have not been able to find a solution yet.

What is daily blog posting exactly? This simply refers to the service that will post your Del.icio.us bookmarks to your blog, just like any other posts, automatically on a daily basis. Why would any blogger want this? Many reasons. First, we want to share our interesting finds with our readers. Secondly, it makes up for those times when we are having one of those blogger blocks and are unable to post anything new. Sure many bookmarking services allow us to have our bookmarks on the sidebar in the form of a linkroll.  But that was not enough. How many readers actually scroll through the sidebar anyways.

So you can imagine my excitement when I could get this done with Diigo, a relatively newer social bookmarking site to Del.icio.us. Last year when I checked their daily blog post service, it didn’t work for Blogger blogs. Seems like they have solved it now. You can go to it Tools/ Daily Blog Post page, add your Blogger blog, and then add a job thingy. Then you are done.

Diigo also offers some cool tools like allowing you to highlight texts and add sticky notes on websites, and create groups. You cannot do these with Del.icio.us.

One feature I would have loved on Diigo though. It is that I should be able to have the daily blog post feature on only bookmarks that I select, like bookmarks of a certain tag, etc. Right now, they seem to post every bookmark on my blog without any filter. If I could do that, I would have migrated totally from Del.icio.us, since Diigo offers the import bookmarks facility also. However, like anybody, I bookmark all sorts of sites in a day and not all these might be relevant for my blog readers.

So now what I do is have a Diigo toolbar and a Del.icio.us button on my browser. I continue to use Del.icio.us as my main bookmarking service and use Diigo to bookmark only those sites that I want to be posted on my blog. The sites I bookmark with Diigo also come out on my Del.icio.us. How? The Diigo toolbar allows you to bookmark not only on Diigo but also on other bookmarking sites at the same time (see options on the toolbar).

Spotplex is a new social bookmarking site with a difference. Blog posts are rated and listed on its homepage just like in Digg. However, the difference here is that the rating is done not by user votes but according the number of page views that post receives.

All you need to do is register your blog and install the Spotplex script on your blog and you are done with it. The more number of times your posts are viewed, the higher are their chances of getting into the Spotplex front page.

I’m quite excited with this new model.  Posts can actually be rated by how popular they are on the Web and not by a select number of voters on a particular site. Soon, many bloggers will have this on their blogs and we can see some good results soon. Sometimes I wonder if this model has a chance of becoming as popular as the big league sites of today like Digg.

However there is one concern. I wonder if it will only be the posts of big blogs with the largest number of readers that will always make it to the front page. This way, it becomes very obvious which posts will be rated higher than another, and it becomes just another plain news aggregator.

Check out Spotplex here.