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January 27, 2004
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 There are several new and improved tools available that make blogging a bit easier:
Technorati, the tool that tells you how many inbound blogs link to your
blog, has now released its beta of its improved version -- faster
loading, better looking. The old version is no longer spidering for new
inbound blogs, so if you want to see where you stand go to the beta page.
Technorati also includes the valuable Interesting Recent Blogs list
(smaller blogs getting an unusual amount of attention, and why) plus
Breaking News (hottests memes in the blogosphere today). They're not
yet moved over to the new beta yet. For status on the changeover and
other interesting info on the blogosphere, blogroll Technorati founder David Sifry's Alerts.
Next up is David Winer's Share Your OPML, a tool that will answer the question "Who subscribes to my blog's RSS feed". It also lists the Top 100 most RSS-subscribed blogs, and How to Save the World
briefly made the list, but now I'm hovering just under the cutoff
point. Some other cute tools worth exploring as well, like a page
showing all the graphics in the Top 100 blogs in the last two days.
Finally, quite a few bloggers are using Bloglines, a "a free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite
blogs and newsfeeds. With Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds
of your favorite blogs, and Bloglines will monitor updates to those sites.
You can read the latest entries easily within Bloglines". I haven't tried it yet, but it looks interesting.
And if you haven't already discovered Blogstreet, which ranks the Top 500 blogs in different ways, and the Waypath Buzzometer,
which tracks how often different words and phrases are appearing in the
blogosphere, you owe it to yourself to check them out too.
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