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Track Hot Topics On Niche Blogs With FeedVis
Want to put your ear to the ground and find out what any group of bloggers are talking about? Some types of bloggers link out to each other a lot, making it easy to see what the hot topics are (see Techmeme, or Technorati). In some circles, though, blogs don't link to other blogs' posts regularly. That's why there will only be so many variations of Techmeme and why we need other tools if we want to track conversations in other parts of the blogging world.
That's what a new service called FeedVis offers. Give it a bundle of blogs (in OPML format) and it will give you a scrollable, searchable tag cloud - a visual representation of the most-used words in a given period of time among a defined group of blogs on any topic.
Finding Interesting Feeds Just Got Easier: Toluu Adds Tags
The OPML sharing and matching service Toluu provides a great way to find and share interesting RSS feeds. One feature that had been missing so far, however, was tagging. In its latest update, which was released today, Toluu has made tagging one of the central features of the service, which will make finding new and interesting blogs through Toluu even easier.
Tag Clouds R.I.P.?
I loved tag clouds from the moment I saw them, and I still do. Two years ago, they roamed the social web like buffalo on the pre-Columbian plains of North America... huge, thundering herds of keywords of all shades and sizes. And you'll see them to this day on many of their earliest adopters - from Delicious.com (makeover and all) to 43 Things.
These days, though, I'm noticing that on more and more sites the tag clouds have evaporated. I'm not saying they're dead (okay, granted, that's exactly what the cartoon's saying, but that's why they issue artistic licenses), but they're getting scarcer.
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