Multimedia Trapping - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 175

audio blogs
A lot of us have very emotional connections to music. We have very strong
ideas about what we like and don't like and could talk for hours about what
we want to listen to and what we can't stand. So knowing that, you wouldn't
be surprised to discover that music has its own genre of blog called an MP3
blog . From here you can get all the new music RSS feeds you can stand, but
you'll probably have to do a little digging to ind what you like.
Before you can trap you have to ind the MP3 blogs that have the music you
want. Start by visiting Feedster (feedster.com) or Technorati (technorati.com)
and do a search for “MP3 Blog” . he number of results you get will be limited
enough that you can narrow it just a little further by adding a few keywords
for the kind of music you're searching for (try searching for genres of music or
artist names, but don't get really detailed) and perhaps an artist name or two.
he results you get will include blogs that just review music, and blogs that
post music, oten with the artists' permission (it's a great way to get exposure
for a lesser-known band).
I have yet to monitor MP3 blogs in a professional capacity, but I personally
ind them invaluable. I'm interested in all kinds of music, and just by read-
ing the RSS feeds of half-a-dozen MP3 blogs, I learn about music that I can't
imagine I'd have heard about otherwise. If you have some time and you're at
all interested in music, look around for some MP3 blogs and put their RSS
feeds in your reader. You'll get some nice surprises out of it.
Of course audio is not the only multimedia on the Internet. It wasn't even
the irst multimedia on the Internet, really. hat honor belongs to images.
And from images the Internet has exploded into more images—mainly pho-
tography—and even recently into video. Keeping up with all these images—
and avoiding the ever-present concern of naughty images—is tricky, but it
can be done. he next section shows you how.
Monitoring Images
When I refer to images, I'm referring to a wide territory—photographs, car-
toons, drawings, maps, illustrations, and so on. Photographs tend to have
their own search engines, but the other types of images are oten lumped
together in image search engines. If you use the special syntax that the