The left hand frame of BlogTrack now displays all the blogs that don't have current entries. This is part of a move to allow users to add arbitrary, non-tracked, blogs to their blogrolls.
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BlogTrack displays old entries (i.e. before your last checkpoint) if there's an followups. I've modified the code that does this such that it will display a dash-lined between the new entries and the old entries.
-------- AUTHOR: David P. Janes DATE: 3:38 AM ----- BODY:Thanks, Doc!
A sphere of ends
Check out Janes' Blogosphere, by David Janes. He describes it to me as a "web based aggregator and search engine for blogs that works against RSS feeds and a large number of scraped blogs.
Pretty cool.
Here's the one for this very blog, and here's a search for its author.
Cross-posted from my day blog.
Is anyone interested in RSS feeds from the blogs I am scraping? Please mail me if you are.
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Best Weblog Directory or Update Monitor
1. Janes' Blogosphere
JUST WHEN YOU NEED TO KEEP TRACK OF STUFF This is a cool little tool. It lets you keep track of a bunch of different blogs at once so you can see when they're updated. It also displays recent posts with about the first sentence so you can jump right to them. Cool.
"Alex Knapp", Heretical Ideas
This is cross-posted from my day-blog.
First, the good news: Janes' Blogosphere now allows "full-text" (i.e. google- or altavista-like) searching of blogs for content. For example, try the following likes (all will open in a new window)
OK, you get the idea. The database of text only goes back about a week right now, but it's being updated hourly with the latest posts and I'm going to start adding archives of blogs that have signed up with me.
Now, the plea: If you like this, please give me a mention in your blog, or better yet, add a Janes's Blogosphere button to your links. I've done a lot of work on this project and I think it's pretty damn useful. And I'd like more people to be using it!
If you haven't used Janes' Blogosphere before, please try out BlogTrack, which I think is the "core" function of the system: it tracks updates to the blogs you like to read and lets you read them all very quickly. I've found that it saves me an incredible amount of time per day in reading blogs.
And... if you really love me, nominate Janes' Blogosphere for a Bloggie under the category "best weblog directory or update monitor". There's only a couple of days left, so get going. I'd nominate you! In fact, I may have already!
-------- AUTHOR: David P. Janes DATE: 12:05 PM ----- BODY:We've been up since 7 this morning! I've been busy work on big changes which I hope to reveal later today or tomorrow at the latest.
-------- AUTHOR: David P. Janes DATE: 12:57 AM ----- BODY:There's something broken with the server's database. Hopefully, we'll be back online in a few hours.
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