How to use tags to make blogging part of your workflow

I'm a tagging fanatic is because it's allowed me to dramatically streamline my workflow so that I can track and share resources much more effectively. Thanks to my Vice President of Documentation, I now have a summary of my integrated workflow using Spurl, del.icio.us, WordPress and FeedWordPress. I use these tools together to:

• Store links to web sites I want to remember, along with an archive of each web page I store in case the original disappears.
• Blog easily about some of the sites I store, at the same time as I bookmark them.
• Make these blog entries look like regular blog entries, not like a linkroll.
• Keep my blog posts about a web site in the same categories that I use to tag that site in del.icio.us and Spurl.

• An account with Spurl
• A "spurl it!" bookmarklet in your browser, which you can find under Settings/Setup once you're logged into Spurl.
• A WordPress blog
• FeedWordPress installed on your WordPress blog
• Optional: a del.icio.us account. If you set up a del.icio.us account set your Spurl account to save any new links to del.icio.us, too.

1. Find a web site that you want to write about in your blog.
2. Spurl the page (i.e. bookmark it in your Spurl account) using the "spurl it!" bookmarklet on your browser toolbar.
3. Optional: Assign the bookmark a category, if you're using categories as well as tags (I recommend that you just use tags -- or at least, avoid nested categories.)
4. Tag the bookmark with "blogthis" and any other tags you want (I have some advice on choosing tags).
5. Enter a description or comment on the link in the "description" field. This description will become your blog entry, and can include full HTML code (though you should be careful about using special characters like dashes or quotations marks in your actual text). I've yet to encounter its upper limit in terms of post length or number of characters.
6. Go to your Spurl account and navigate to the page for your "blogthis" tag. Click on the "ATOM" button in the upper right-hand corner. Copy the URL that loads (it will look something like http://www.spurl.net/myspurls/library.php?p=atom&userid=XXX&c=259295 ) to your clipboard.
7. In WordPress Dashboard, go to Links / Syndicated. (We're assuming you have FeedWordPress installed.)
8. Paste the URL you've copied from Spurl into "Syndicate a new site" and click "Syndicate"
9. A confirmation page appears. Click on "Edit."
10. Change the link name to whatever you'd like, and add a description.
11. Click "save changes" at the bottom of the page.
12. In Options / Syndication, set "Unfamiliar categories" to "don't create new categories".
13. Load the URL http://www.YOURWEBSITE.com/blog/wp-content/update-feeds.php?shibboleth=fooble to update your feed. (You should have changed your "shibboleth" secret word" in the WordPress Dashboard under Options / Syndication; use your secret word in place of "fooble". And you may want to set up a cron job to run regular updates of your feeds.)
14. Go to your blog; your recently Spurled page should now appear as the most recent blog post. If not, try updating your FeedWordPress feeds again because it sometimes takes a minute or two for Spurl's feed to update.