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Looks like the site has gone down in flames for the moment.

Very interesting, but really rough around the edges. I tried it out and got lots of resuslts, some related to the keyword, some not. A quick (10 minutes) skim of some of the feeds yielded nothing of interest.

Though perhaps the fault is the sources’ (blogs) rather than MonitorThis itself. The more I think about it, actually, the more sense that explanation makes.

How is this different from http://gada.be/about?

Maybe I’m missing something, but how do I make a .opml file with the code this thing gives me? I’d like to end up with something I can open in Safari. Tahnks.

I found a script hosted at:

http://public.yabfog.com/opmlBrowser.php

That would parse an opml file (has to be hosted on your web space, natch)

Here’s an OPML browser which shows the items of the rss files inside: OPML reader, example with MonitorThis

Hey, I wrote a little ditty about MonitorThis on my site.

Thanks for coming out.

For me , MonitorThis is an amazing tool for tracking concepts I’m interested. I found that I get a lot of really surprising connections through it, especially by keeping the search term as vague as possible. These sorts of random, magical connections are similar to what Steven Berlin ist talking about in his artical Tool for Thought, about the way he uses DevonThink to give him surprising yet relavant connections between seemingly unrelated bits of info.

In that sense, MonitorThis is a great way to make lateral connections between the way a great many different minds think of a similar topic. cool stuff

Dave.

woops… flubbed the link to the SBJ article, it’s here:

Tool for Thought,

Dave.