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Trapping Flickr streams is easy, as RSS feeds are ofered for searches. (Look
for “Feeds for photos tagged with keyword. Available as RSS 2.0 and Atom”
at the bottom of a page of results.)
Would you rather get your alerts by e-mail? Notifyr (notifyr.com/) will
send you an e-mail whenever a Flickr page in which you're interested is
updated—this can be any kind of Flickr page—a Flickr user's page, an indi-
vidual picture's page (in case you're watching for new comments), or a page
of Flickr search results. You don't need to register to use Notifyr; all you
need is an e-mail address.
Have you been seduced by Flickr yet? Spent hours and hours looking at
sunsets, lightning, and cute kitten pictures? I know. Time to go look at
something else. Blogs, for example, have such an extensive presence on the
Internet as a whole that it shouldn't surprise you that there are tag searches
for them as well.
Searching blogs with tags
You've already seen that blogs in general have plenty of search engines. But
in addition to doing regular searches for blogs, you can also do tag searches.
hey're like the Flickr searches: sometimes blog tag searches give you a
shortcut to resources you would not have found otherwise. Technorati and
IceRocket are two major search sources.
Technorati Tag Search
Technorati's Tag Search page (technorati.com/tag/) starts with a list of “hot
tags” and the hundred most popular tags, but if none of those interest you
there's a search form. his is the place to try all those blog searches you
wanted to do in Feedster but which got you too many or too many irrelevant
results. You'll see when you get the results back that you're actually getting
results from many diferent sources.
At the top of the results list are tags related to the one for which you just
searched. Keep those in mind for later. (Also note at the top of the Search
Results page that there's a tab for searching photos!) You can get your trap
down at the top of the search results where there's an orange button linking
to an RSS feed. Play and experiment with general blog searches here, and
then take your experiments to IceRocket.
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