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Finding Blogs, Blog Posts, RSS Feeds and RSS Entries
Compiled by Darlene Fichter
Find Blogs
- blo.gs
- 1,482,503 blogs (March 20, 2004)
- Directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs
- Lists of updated weblogs are imported from antville.org, blogger.com, pitas.com, and weblogs.com.
- Keyword or alphabet
- Monitor weblogs via the web, email, and instant messenger
- Directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs
- Blog Search Engine
- Resource for finding blogs
- Yahoo-style subject directory to locate blogs
- Blog Finder
- "a tags-based way for people to find the most authoritative blogs on a particular subject, allowing bloggers to tag their blogs with the subjects they felt were most relevant for themselves"
- Lists about 850,000 blogs adn 2,500 categories (February 2006)
- BlogHop
- 22451 blogs on file (March 20, 2004)
- Blogrunner Microcontent Publishing
- 200,000 feeds that track weblogs, news stories, etc. (March 30, 2004)
- Trying to be a portal and search engine for weblogs by offering directory browse plus filtering content into areas like top posts, top authors, top blogs, top books
- Limit search to Press news, blog posts, Press Op/Ed Pieces, Opinion, or Books,Movie, Video, Music
- Date range - 3 days, week, last month, 3 months
- Trying to be a portal and search engine for weblogs by offering directory browse plus filtering content into areas like top posts, top authors, top blogs, top books
- BlogTree
- Genealogy site, tracing the inspiration to start blogging
- 15438 blogs in 44 languages
- Search by name, language, birthday
- 15438 blogs in 44 languages
- Blogwise
- 16748 blogs (March 30, 2004)
- Collection of categorized blogs from around the world
- Country and keyword
- Collection of categorized blogs from around the world
- Diarist.Net Registry
- 9541 sites (March 20, 2004)
- The definitive directory of journals, diaries & personal weblogs
- Keyword search; browse by country
- The definitive directory of journals, diaries & personal weblogs
- GeoURL - blogs and more
- Find URLs by their proximity to a given location
- Map interface, Latitude, Longitude of creator, UTM
- Globe of Blogs
- 9,618 weblogs registered (March 20, 2004)
- Author name, birthday, gender, age, and topic
- Blogarama - the blog directory
- 9024 entries (March 20,2004)
- Extensive Yahoo-style subject directory
- Keyword search
- Extensive Yahoo-style subject directory
- Weblog Review
- 1445 blogs reviewed
- Keyword or category
- Open Directory - Weblogs
- By language, region, theme
- Photoblogs.org
- 3,303 photoblogs in 55 countries and 25 languages (March 20, 2004)
- Keyword, browse by country, language, alphabet
Find RSS Feeds
- Try some of the RSS Search engines listed below and search for topics that interest you and the RSS feed.
- Search4RSS
- Search view and aggregate 25,000 feeds (July 26, 2004)
- Newsfeeds
- Blog of interesting new feeds
- Moreover
- Prebuilt categories from other feeds
Search Blog Posts
- BlogPulse
- Search blogs
- Track trends such as most cited but also uses data mining to indentify key phrases, BlogBites and people
- Create your own trend graphs
- Track trends such as most cited but also uses data mining to indentify key phrases, BlogBites and people
- Blogdigger
- Included blog and RSS feeds
- Feeds are submitted or found via sites like Weblog.com
- Search keyword or link search, find posts that include a link
- Feeds are submitted or found via sites like Weblog.com
- Blogstreet
- Search by keyword individual blog posts
- Blog Neighborhood - others blogs like this
- Visual Neighborhood - view / explore relationships (java plugin)
- BlogBack - who is blogrolling you
- RSS Discovery - does your blog have a feed somewhere?
- Blog Influence Quotient - blog influence in the blogosphere
- Top books - books linked in blogs
- Blog Neighborhood - others blogs like this
- Technorati
- 1,920,190 weblogs watched, 254,799,040 links tracked
- Monitors what is being said, by whom, about whom, when
- Uses Tags
- Monitors what is being said, by whom, about whom, when
Search Contents of RSS Feeds
- Bloglines
- 102,463 blogs
- Search RSS feeds
- Blogdigger
- Included blog and RSS feeds
- Feeds are submitted or found via sites like Weblog.com
- Search keyword or link search, find posts that include a link
- Feeds are submitted or found via sites like Weblog.com
- Feedster - RSS Search Engine
- 26,000 RSS feeds (March 20, 2004)
- Search by keyword
- News is Free
- 8760 sources (March 22, 2004)
- News map with Hive Group - sectors
Other Blog Sites
- Popdex
- Popularity calculated based on linking. Your score can be boosted by popular blogs linking to yours.
RSS Alerts
- Feedbeep - Text Message alert
- MSN Search
- Yahoo Search
- Customized PubMed feeds will soon be available direct from the source
- HubMed
- MSN Search
Convert those RSS alerts to email?
Blog News and Links
Related Resources
- Using Weblogs in the Workplace
- Library Weblogs
- Weblog Compendium
- Weblogs - Organizational, Workplace and Enterprise Blogs
Articles and Presentations by Darlene Fichter
- Blogging for Knowledge
Exchange[Articles] Sep/Oct 2003 - Intranet Professional
- Blogging Basics[PowerPoint Slides] Cybertour March 2004 - Computers in Libraries
- Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library's Services - Nov/Dec 2003 Marketing Library Services
- The Blogging Explosion —Libraries & Weblogs Nov 2003 - Internet Librarian
- Blogging for KM[PowerPoint Slides] - Oct 2003 KMWorld/Intranets
- Using Weblogs to Spread the Word About Libraries[PowerPoint Slides] - October 23, 2004 Hawaii Library Conference