Let me tell you what I really want for my web site. I suspect there are others out there who want this same thing, but they don’t know how to go about it either. These are people who, like me, love books and music, and would love to have offsite links to them, but don’t want to turn every page of their site into a shill for Earth’s Biggest BookEverythingstore.
I’m not a camgirl or a professional columnist, and the miniscule amount of money I could potentially make if someone clicked the links is not worth as much as this space being devoid of commericals or shilling apart from the occasional Mac freeware.
Maybe you know where I’m going with this. I want to be able to code a link that I can code that takes the clicker of that link to a listing not for a store, but for a library of their choosing, whether it be nearby, down the highway, across the plains, or in, well, ??stfold County, Norway.
I have thought a bit about how this would work. Although it seems clear to me that there are more than one but fewer than a billion ways for libraries to make their catalogs available and accessible, I don’t see them suddenly standardizing their URI methodology — not because of bpdw.commentary demanding it be so — I think some sort of server would have to be put in place to do the translating. I fear that it would take lots more work than I have time or brainpower for, to make this a useful technology, so I would like to put An Evening of Drinking up as the prize for such a technology. [Winner can not have already been working on such an infrastructure; bpdw.commentary reserves the right to use the evening as blog fodder.]
Okay, now that I’ve gotten all that onto a page, time for bed.
