tool to reblog and share a collection of web pages?
May 21, 2013 8:54 AM

Is there a tool that will let me store/archive web pages or parts of web pages, and then create a little mini library of reblogged content along with navigation links?

I'm planning a road trip with some friends, and I am collecting information from various relevant websites—national parks, campgrounds, Google Maps, etc.

I want a way to easily share this web content with my friends.

All the obvious ways to do this seem suboptimal:

1. Send an email with a bunch of links (they have to click through to see the content)
2. Copy/paste web content INTO an email, which gets long and cumbersome and is hard to reference/search/find later on
3. Build a website from scratch with relevant content

Is there a tool that will let me store/archive web pages, or parts of web pages, and then create a little mini library of archived content that we could all refer to and browse through? I'm envisioning a little mini website, with hierarchical navigation links in the left pane, and the reblogged web content in the right pane.

Sharing an Evernote notebook kind of does this, but there doesn't seem to be much control over the navigation on the left, nor the ability to easily add my own content.
posted by incandescentman to Computers & Internet (6 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
Any blog? Tumblr? Wordpress? Use categories or tags for your navigation.
posted by DarlingBri at 8:59 AM on May 21, 2013


DarlingBri, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Wordpress or Tumblr provide tools for capturing existing content from the web and reblogging it. (Tumblr allows you to reblog content from other Tumblr blogs, but that's not what I need.)
posted by incandescentman at 9:14 AM on May 21, 2013


getpocket.com will do the archiving thing. I think there's some kind of social networking available on it, but I don't use it. The easiest thing since its sharing among friends might be to share login credentials for the site.

It doesn't really allow for comments on it, but it would get you local copies of shared content.
posted by rmd1023 at 9:18 AM on May 21, 2013


Here is a collection of online tools that do this. Here is another.
posted by rada at 10:26 AM on May 21, 2013


Wouldn't a facebook event do this easily.
posted by BenPens at 11:41 AM on May 21, 2013


incandescentman: "correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Wordpress or Tumblr provide tools for capturing existing content from the web and reblogging it. (Tumblr allows you to reblog content from other Tumblr blogs, but that's not what I need.)"

You can copy and paste content from a web page into a Tumblr post just as easily as you could into an email. Each thing/place/activity could get its own post (much easier to deal with than in an email), and it's easy to have it link back to the source in case anybody wants to read further.

This is pretty common with recipe Tumblrs, I think (mine are probably 25% reblogged from Tumblr and 75% things from elsewhere on the web).
posted by Lexica at 8:44 PM on May 21, 2013


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