Tuesday, June 04, 2002

Radio Userland: New tool: Weblog Neighborhood "Now that Radio weblogs can tell us how they're related to other weblogs, through the blogroll and subscription lists, we can start harvesting information from those links. The Weblog Neighborhood tool only looks at subscription lists. It visits all the sites you're subscribed to, looking for sites that point to their subscription list, and then harvests those, and recurses up to three levels deep (this is configurable). Each time it visits a site, it bumps its count. If it can go into a site, it will appear in bold on your neighborhood page." Wow, I've got a lot of work to do to catch up! comment []  4:20:24 PM

We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs Book to be published August 8. Blogs go bigtime. comment []  4:18:19 PM

How to create a Blogroll with Radio's outliner "Blogrolls are a collection of links on the home page of a weblog that point to sites that are somehow related to yours. They serve several purposes, they direct readers to the sites that are important to you, and serve as a set of bookmarks for you. They also help build page rank in search engines for sites you wish to bestow page rank on." I've been quite remiss in not adding a blogroll to my weblog(s), so the time is now. It's pretty hard to expect people to link to me if I don't link to them. And hopefully I'll get a little boost on the Google rank with a cool choice of blogrolls (which probably violates the spirit of the whole exercise). comment []  4:11:22 PM

The RadioPoint Tool "The RadioPoint Tool turns the outliner into a presentation authoring program." Something else to play with. comment []  3:40:10 PM

Personal RSS Aggregators Jon Udell runs down some of the options for reading news published in RSS format. Aggregators read RSS files, which contain headlines, links, and short descriptions, mostly, and allow you to click and browse to the full article. This site publishes in RSS (see the orange XML icon on the side). I use Radio UserLand as both my weblog posting and news aggregator tool, but when an install on each PC is not an option, some of these aggregators are an option. Or as Jon says: "And while the people most attuned to this new mode of communication are themselves bloggers, both reading and writing these information flows, there is no requirement that you write a weblog in order to tap into the collective mind. If you simply need to monitor the action, there are a number of personal RSS aggregators." comment []  3:09:19 PM