Tool for tracking new posts on blogs I enjoy?

#1

Post by Skywing » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 11:09 PM UTC

Are there any tools that will allow me to track new posts on blogs that I enjoy? I frequent a lot of blogs, hoping to see new content. I'd rather just be notified when new content is available.

Are there tools for this? Thanks.

Re: Tool for tracking new posts on blogs I enjoy?

#2

Post by pierrefar » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 11:27 PM UTC

Yes. It's called RSS and you need a reader like Google Reader among others.

Re: Tool for tracking new posts on blogs I enjoy?

#3

Post by Skywing » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 11:32 PM UTC

pierrefar wrote: post #2

Yes. It's called RSS and you need a reader like Google Reader among others.

Yea, RSS is nice but some of the blogs don't have RSS feeds. I was just curious if there was some website that had some way of tracking non-rss blogs.

Re: Tool for tracking new posts on blogs I enjoy?

#4

Post by pierrefar » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 11:36 PM UTC

Skywing wrote: post #3

pierrefar wrote: post #2

Yes. It's called RSS and you need a reader like Google Reader among others.

Yea, RSS is nice but some of the blogs don't have RSS feeds. I was just curious if there was some website that had some way of tracking non-rss blogs.

Yes there are services that monitor web pages and email you if the content changes. Sorry their names escape me right now but I know they exist.

Also don't think some blogs are RSS-free: they might simply be not advertising their feeds well and not enabling autodiscovery.

Re: Tool for tracking new posts on blogs I enjoy?

#5

Post by Andrenid » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 12:26 AM UTC

Skywing wrote: post #3

pierrefar wrote: post #2

Yes. It's called RSS and you need a reader like Google Reader among others.

Yea, RSS is nice but some of the blogs don't have RSS feeds. I was just curious if there was some website that had some way of tracking non-rss blogs.

What blogs these days don't have RSS?

Unless they rolled their own CMS, just about every blog these days has at least basic RSS feeds. They might not advertise it, but throw the website's URL into Google Reader and it'll detect the feeds and add them anyway.

Re: Tool for tracking new posts on blogs I enjoy?

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Post by jkjeldgaard » Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 1:08 AM UTC

Skywing wrote: post #3

pierrefar wrote: post #2

Yes. It's called RSS and you need a reader like Google Reader among others.

Yea, RSS is nice but some of the blogs don't have RSS feeds. I was just curious if there was some website that had some way of tracking non-rss blogs.

I use this service for creating RSS feeds from sites that don't have one: http://page2rss.com/