Track keywords all over the place with MonitorThis
Submitted by Merlin on November 11, 2005 - 10:52am.
Your ability to ego-surf yourself (or, I suppose, just track a favorite “non-you” topic) is now a lot easier.
Tell MonitorThis your desired search terms, and it obligingly spits out an OPML file full of RSS feeds for tracking your quarry on 15 different search engines, including, Ice Rocket, Technorati, Flickr, and more.
(This so aptly summarizes much of what’s both fascinating, powerful, and incredibly creepy about the Interweb today.)
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Hey, I wrote a little...
Hey, I wrote a little ditty about MonitorThis on my site.
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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.