Technorati lets you monitor blogs according to how they’re tagged, via building live self-updating charts. This doesn’t capture everything of course. Not every blogger adds specific tags to describe the details of the posts; and people user different tags to describe the same concepts. However, these charts probably do give a pretty good [...]
There’s currently a discussion going on between Elizabeth Lane Lawley and Robert Scoble centered on the question: do we need tools that let help people deal with large numbers of RSS/Atom feeds. Robert believe we do need such tools, and Elizabeth disagrees; she believes Robert is an edge-case. Elizabeth has put forward an intelligent and [...]
Sam Ruby, Mark Pilgrim, Joseph Walton, and Phil Ringnalda have kindly made a free service available for helping developers of sofwtare that generate RSS or Atom feeds. It’s called Feed Validator for Atom and RSS. For anyone that develops this kind of software, it’s a really useful service; assuming you want your RSS [...]