Library clips

A while back Micro Persuasion had a post mentioning building your own category feeds for a blog with IceRocket, reason being is you might only like some content of that blog, and not all posts, so your options are to generate a site search feed or subscribe to a category or tag, but not all blogs have a feed for their categories/tags, hence the hack.

Just thought I’d mention that I’ve included this hack in a blog post I always refer to when it comes to re-mixing feeds…here is a section from that post:

“MAKE A CATEGORY FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH (category feed for your blog)

A more manual approach is to bookmark every post in a social bookmark manager with the tags labelled the same as your blog categories…the tag RSS feeds can be used as your blog category RSS feeds (del.icio.us allows you to combine categories)”

Here is an example with Blogdigger:

1. site:libraryclips.blogsome.com subject:folksonomy (60 hits)
2. blogID:239657 subject:folksonomy (27 hits)

Here is an example with IceRocket:

1. author:johnt tag:folksonomy (58 hits)
2. +blogId:1859961 tag:folksonomy (41 hits)

So it seems a site search on Blogdigger, and a author search on IceRocket give more results, and there is no noise either…I wonder why blogID doesn’t cut it.

Some related earlier posts.

[ADDED: Technorati profile page now has a tagcloud for your claimed blogs, if you just have one claimed blog this can act as categories/tags for your blog.
If I click on the folksonomy tag in my profile it will show all my posts just from my blog within the folksonomy category…now where’s the feed…Blogdigger and IceRocket lead in this feature.

Also when you click on the blog source from any result in a Technorati search it will show you the users profile, from here you can click a tag to see results just within that profile.

It would be good if you could do this sort of search from scratch,

eg. SEARCH IN THIS BLOG URL: http://libraryclips.blogsome.com
SHOW POSTS THAT HAVE BEEN TAGGED: folksonomy

SUBMIT

But you can’t do this as these 2 search fields are in different search panes…this is a pity as you can get the results the long way via the profile page why not be able to use the search interface to generate these kind of results…and spitting out a feed would be only standard.]

A while back I posted on how to generate a Bloglines ego feed using a webpage monitor (WatchThatPage), Micro Persuasion points to another post illustrating this idea.
You don’t have to use a Bloglines email to turn the email content into a feed, you can use other tools.

For more on webpage monitoring services in general see Marshall Kirkpatrick’s post, and a post from SEW.

Now it is even easier if you use WebSite-Watcher as results can be returned not only by email but by RSS, so all you have to do is monitor your page and get results in your RSS reader, simple.

Then there is the other option to use a HTML scraping tool like FeedTier.

As I mentioned in my TalkDigger re-vamped post you can now generate a spliced ego feed from many engines in one go, first you have to select the engines you want to be included, so simply just select Bloglines, and you will get an ego feed…why don’t Bloglines just make one themselves, it’s been a while now.

Concerning TalkDigger I’m not sure if you can get rid of the duplicates in the RSS version, I know you can, via options, but this seems to be only when viewing results in TalkDigger, and not in the RSS version.
[ADDED 14/1/06: Rather than duplicates what I meant to say is get rid of links from my own domain in the RSS version].

[ADDED: egoSurf would also seem to provide an answer but the problem is that you have to include a search term, you can’t just do a blank search to see who is linking to you, isn’t this the idea. I like that you can choose from multiple engines and it generates a feed, if you could do blank searches and select just one engine (Bloglines isn’t listed) then this feed could be a hack for a Bloglines ego feed.

Also if I could do a blank search to see all links to my domain I could just tick del.icio.us and see all my posts bookmarked in del.icio.us, in one go, instead of having to do a search for each post…Spurl does this well.

Maybe TalkDigger could add some bookmark engines or a separate module called BookmarkDigger, to see who is bookmarking your posts…something I’ve mentioned:
“Imagine doing a link search on your blog domain to see which posts and how many times they have been bookmarked by the various services, and what tags people used to describe/file your various posts.”

…I’ve also mentioned it way back here.]

…continue…update.

[ADDED 12/05/06: Ponyfish : scrape a Bloglines citation feed]