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November 11, 2005
Search and Enjoy
We are very happy to announce two new, related features that have just been added to the site.
The first is the ability to search our database of blogs by title and url at the search and discover page. Not only can you search -- it also show a list of twenty highly-subscribed to blogs to get you started.
When you find a blog, you can find out more about it on our new detail pages, including the number of subscribers, when it was added to our database and the last time it was updated. If you like the what you see, you can click the "Subscribe" link to start receiving notifications. Pages exist for everything from mortgage fraud to Sikh philosophy. You can also get to there from your account page. Just click on the info link next to any blog link.
The most exciting part of the detail page is a list of other blogs read by people who read this one. Use it to find other blog that you might like to read. Like knitting? Then maybe you'll like the blogs relating to Fibermania. Prefer your blogs in Spanish? Find a dozen at El Blog de Enrique Dans. Whatever you are looking for, it's more fun when your fellow blog readers help you find it.
So search, and enjoy!
How to put up a Subscribe Form
In the spirit of making everything about our service easy, we've added instructions on how to add our subscribe form to your own blog. Using the template system of your blog can be confusing, so now we provide step-by-step instructions for many of the most popular blog authoring systems, including:
You can generate a subscribe form at our blog tools page.
November 03, 2005
"RSS is Plumbing"
This is what we're talking about! Until you never have to worry about whether a website you want to track has an RSS (or Atom, etc) feed, RSS is going to be a stumbling block for most of us.
Brad Feld says it nicely here.
One option is to wait until every website provides an RSS feed (hint: you'll be waiting a long time). The other option is to use Blogarithm.