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A search for “action igure” on NewsIsFree brought no results—you might
ind you have to stick with Syndic8 or Feedster for more speciic searches.
hat's because NewsIsFree doesn't seem to have as many sources as Feedster
or Syndic8. However, I've included it here because it has been around a long
time, it ofers a unique way of looking at what's available, and it's an invalu-
able resource for keeping up with newly available feeds, which is a topic we
return to when we discuss pruning, reevaluating, and adding sources.
Technorati's Bloginder
Technorati has a service called Bloginder (technorati.com/blogs/), which at
this writing is still in beta, but you can use it to ind RSS feeds as well. (Most
blog-creation sotware nowadays automatically generates RSS feeds.)
Technorati lets you search for blogs using “tags,” which are simply key-
words describing the blog. his type of tag search means you need to use
more general search words than you might use to search the full content
of a blog. “Action igures” is general enough, and you'll probably get some
results. Figure 2.12 shows what those search results look like.
Figure 2.12
Using technorati's
Bloginder, you can
sort your results
two different ways.
the freshness option
works well if you're
looking for frequently
updated blogs for your
information traps.