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How do you use webogs.com? I would like to be able to set an alert for when certain weblogs update (that could be tracked through weblogs.com) and then for some flag to go up in my task bar. Rather like: “You have mail”.
Original article: Tracking Weblog.com
Doesn’t an aggregator serve essentially that purpose? Not only “pinging” you but actually delivering the new content? What would be the added value? I’m probably just missing something. You could certainly achieve this with a perl script that pulled down the page hourly (or “whatever”ly) and compared the list with a local list of things you want to be notified about.
Posted by: Mad William Flint on February 5, 2003 04:56 PMI have written a PHP script here(http://www.rightho.com/blog/links.php ) which does the same.
Also you can try http://www.hit-or-miss.org/projects/dailycrawl/ (see it in action at http://www.anitarowland.com/)
Posted by: Ram on February 7, 2003 06:32 AMBlogToaster will do this on MSN - advantage it’s already running just add it to your buddy list, or BlogAgent (MSN, AIM, ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo) - disadvantage you have to download the code and run it yourself.
Toaster:
http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/2002/06/15.html#a608
Agent:
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/20020701.html#070058
http://www.manywhere.com/Download.html