Daily Archives: January 13, 2006

Yet another BlogWatcher change

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I know – you’re all getting tired of this.

I’ve added a facility to make it even easier to subscribe to feeds. There’s a new link, “QuickSub” with instructions on how to add a button to your web browser to automate subscriptions. Once you’ve installed this button, you just need to click on it when you’re on a page that interests you. As long as there are feeds available for that page, the software should hopefully pick it up and subscribe you.

Of course, there will probably be problems with it, but give it a try.

(I’m also trying out a new publishing tool, so I’m not sure how this post will turn out.)

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Some esoteric options for BlogWatcher

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There are a couple of feed options I’ve added for BlogWatcher that might require a little explanation. They both work with the concept of “tagged” content.

Tagging is one of the “hot” new topics in blogging. When new posts are made in a lot of software (including mine) the author can tag it with whatever keywords seem relevent to them. There are then services that allow you to search for content that has been tagged with words that interest you.

I’ve added two new feed types that support tags. “Tagged posts” and “Flickr photos” For each one, you can enter the keyword that interests you in the target box, and you’ll be shown content related to your tag. The “Tagged posts” option is for blog entries (it searches technorati.com), while the “Flickr photos” will bring up pictures that people have uploaded to flickr.com .

This gives you the chance to find content from people you know nothing about, if they happen to write something that might interest you. For instance, if you happen to really like pictures of waterfalls, you could create a new “Flickr photos” feed with the keyword waterfall, and then, whenever anybody posts a public picture to flickr.com that they tag as a waterfall, you’ll see it in your Blogwatcher list. Pretty cool, huh? Cool

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