In some respects I wish they were - I've got far too many and have to spend a few hours dumping all the obsolete ones from my browser occasionally (hint to any programmers out there - Firefox needs a serious Bookmarks utility!). But something that is on the increase is social bookmarking, with the likes of del.ici.ous, blinklist, My Yahoo, etc. it's easy to save a page location from any computer you are at and refer from it later as well as sharing that bookmark with anyone else. There is also the trend of sending pages to fast paced news sites such as DIGG, but without all that fiddling about in hyperspa.. err, I mean in an Add Post window on their site.
Here's a quick piece of Movable Type code to add some quicklinks for your visitors on any currently read post.
Disclaimer. This method works for me but it may not work for you depending on your server or the settings of your Movable Type installation. You will need to know how to use Movable Type, its plug-ins, templating system, and a little CSS. Secondly, I am not a professional programmer, only a professional designer (who has to make far too many compromises for his clients - hence this slightly experimental site) so everything written here should be taken with a pinch of salt, so if it does not work - don't panic! Backstep and try again - which leads on to my last point: back up everything prior to beginning any modifications to your site regardless of complexity.
In your Individual Entry Archive template, add the following to your <p class="entry-footer">
<a href="http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Description=&Url=<$MTEntryPermalink$>&Title=<$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$>" title="Submit <$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$ class="link-this" target="_blank"> to BlinkList">blinklist</a> : <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?title=<$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$>&url=<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="Submit <$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$> to del.icio.us" class="link-this" target="_blank">del.icio.us</a> : <a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="Submit <$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$> to DIGG" class="link-this" target="_blank">DIGG</a> : <a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=<$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$>&u=<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="Submit <$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$> to Furl" class="link-this" target="_blank">furl</a> : <a href="http://www.shadows.com/features/tcr.htm?url=<$MTEntryPermalink$>&title=<$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$>" title="Submit <$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$> to Shadows" class="link-this" target="_blank">shadows</a> : <a href="http://simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?title=<$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$>&href=<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="Submit <$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$> to Simpy" class="link-this" target="_blank">simpy</a> : <a href="http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?v=3&title=<$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$>&url=<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="Submit <$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$> to Spurl" class="link-this" target="_blank">spurl</a> : <a href="http://synergy2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=<$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$>&u=<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="Submit <$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1"$> to Yahoo Web 2.0" class="link-this" target="_blank">yahoo</a>
Rebuild your blog and you are done.
What's happening for those who are dying to know - simply knowing what the target URL is requiring to submit it to the database, we send over the permalink and the entry's name. I'm not 100% sure if I need the remove html bit, but as that works for the titles of pages, I'll leave it in for now.
In the above code there is a wide selection of social sites - add or delete any that you feel are relevant to your blog setup. You will also notice that each link has a class of "link-this", so you can modify your style-sheet to blend the links in. In my case just to make them a little smaller.
As an alternative, you can add the code to the Index template just after an entry's <p class="entry-footer"> as well. I didn't like the look of that so left it on my individual pages instead - also, as an afterthought, if you make long posts, you could consider having the links at the top of a page instead.
Good luck - and happy social bookmarking.
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