Blog Relations
My most delicious hack
I thought I would share my favourite del.iciou.us hack with you. If you use del.icio.us you probably know that it’s great for spotting webpages and blogs with buzz , as its popular function tells you what’s being bookmarked in large quantities now. If you are regularly hunting for a particular topic, you can set up an rss feed to keep you up-to-date.
I’m starting to blog more about kids stuff for our other site (sorry to bore you with Storynory but it gives my every day practical experience). So I went to http://del.icio.us/popular/kids to see what people are book-marking with that tag. But because it’s a pain to return to that page every day, I have taken the RSS feed off that page and put it into my Bloglines feed reader. I’ve done this with some other popular tags and it’s a great way to keep up to speed. It throws up goodies all the time. I recommend it.
Brilliant use of two of my favourite tools. I’ll try it out – it may be time to see if some of my Google alerts can be replaced by monitoring Blogline tags, to up the quality control and convenience.