Bloglines Citations RSS hack re-visited
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.]
[ADDED 12/05/06: Ponyfish : scrape a Bloglines citation feed]
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Thanks for the link over to my site, I hadn’t been to yours in awhile and it was a nice reminder.
Here’s how I’d do what I think you’re aiming for:
I’d grab the RSS feeds for searches for either “link:http://marshallk.com” (my url) or just the URL itself, in Google Blogsearch, IceRocket, Pubsub, Technorati and Search.MSN.com. That way you’ll never miss anything. Then I’d splice all those feeds together through FeedDigest.com where there’s a very simple option to remove duplicates by either title or URL. That generates you one meta-feed (if you will) that can be subscribed to in Bloglines or any other feed reader. FeedDigest also generates a javascript code snippet you can plop into your own site to automatically display your RSS feed in HTML. I do that a lot - like for my Web 2.0 definition page I just posted yesterday. http://marshallk.com/web20
That’s how I’d create an egosearch feed without duplicates, if I understand what you mean to do. I just subscribe to the various search engine feeds and put them into a folder in my feed reader (newsgator). Sorry to take up so much space!
Comment by Marshall Kirkpatrick — January 13, 2006 @ 2:23 am