AlexH

I never had much use for the blog tracking tools like Blogpulse, Icerocket, Technorati, ad nauseum, until recently. I was using them as search engines, which they can be used for, but the more useful thing IMO is for keeping your finger on the pulse of the blogosphere.

For example, I’m interested in the ‘Hundred Mile Diet‘, but it’s impossible for me to find all of the blogs that talk about it, even with trackbacks.

But with these blog tracking services, they let me create my own queries, and they make an RSS feed out of the search results. I pop those in my RSS reader, and all of a sudden I can keep track of the conversations spread across the web!