After working down the list of suggested search tools, I
found that Google blog search was the easiest of the bunch. Although you need to be somewhat specific,
the results of the search are almost all content related and after some
additional searching, you are bound to find what you were looking for.
Topix.net
was great because it automatically generated an entire page of news, topics,
and events that were specific to my current location. After playing around there I subscribed
immediately. The page is not too busy,
is easy to navigate, and most of the content is highly relevant to anyone
living in the selected area.
Technorati
is a very blog-specific site dedicated to everything “blog”. The site is very user friendly and they have
a very good help tab if you do run into any problems while negotiating the
content.
I am
somewhat of a movie buff and I was able to find some pretty good film-related
feeds. Instead of having to visit
multiple websites dedicated to movies, these feeds roll up multiple stories and
consolidate them right in one spot. Some
of the more unusual blogs were sort of politically centered and had to do with
topics that were very ideological. The
bottom line is that there is a blog for almost any interest and although the
content is almost bottomless, the blogosphere must be travelled with the
knowledge that some of the content is based on point of view, opinion and
bias. As a tool for rapidly locating
specific content-based information however, RSS feeds are unmatched.
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