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A linklog is a blogging format where the post titles link directly to an external site and the content of the post offers commentary on the linked piece. This is commonly referred to as a "linked list" because of the The Daring Fireball Linked List which helped to popularize the format.
To publish a linklog with Octopress simply add the url for the item you want to write about to the external-url variable in the yaml front matter of a blog post.
---
layout: post
title: "Someone on the Internet is Wrong"
date: 2012-02-05 17:18
comments: true
external-url: http://opinionguy.com/post/uninformed-rant-vs-straw-man/
---
When you generate your blog, the title link will point to the external url. Also, each post will show it's own permalink, and in the feed there will be a permalink at the end of linklog posts.
Customization
In the _config.yml there are some configurations you can change if you like.
permalink_label: "∞"
permalink_label_feed: "∞ Permalink"
linklog_marker: "→"
linklog_marker_position: after
linklog_marker_position_feed: after
standard_post_marker:
The default settings were inspired by Marco Arment with one exception, in his RSS feed the linklog marker comes before the title to help readers better distinguish which posts are linklogs. To use that style simply change linklog_marker_position_feed to before.
John Gruber takes a different approach than Marco. Rather than mark his linklog posts, he adds the ★ character to the beginning of each of his standard posts. So for example if you wanted to copy Daring Fireball's style, you'd set it up like this.
permalink_label: "★"
permalink_label_feed: "★"
linklog_marker:
linklog_marker_position:
linklog_marker_position_feed:
standard_post_marker: "★ "