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Tool for tracking new posts on blogs I enjoy?
5 points by Skywing on Dec 15, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
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.




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.


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


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.




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