{"id":76,"date":"2003-11-14T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/WebDev\/ThisSite\/inroads.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"inroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2003\/11\/14\/inroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Inroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added a new feature to the weblog, a boxlet called <em>Inroads<\/em>.  It&#8217;s a list of sites that lead to this blog in some fashion &#8211; blog indexes, update notification sites, rss feed search engines.  Upon reflection, I should probably add Google to the list.  For now, here&#8217;s a rundown of the sites listed currently appearing in the Inroads boxlet(on the right&#8230; acroll down if you don&#8217;t see it):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogdex.net\/\">Blogdex<\/a> &#8211; A project of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/\"><span class=\"caps\">MIT <\/span>Media Laboratory<\/a>, it tracks the disemination of ideas via links read from websites.  Collect data via spider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bloglines.com\/\">Bloglines<\/a> &#8211; A web-based News Aggregator.  Subscribes to <span class=\"caps\">RSS <\/span>Feeds, allows you to read your subscriptions from anywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogrolling.com\/\">Blogrolling.com<\/a> &#8211; A set of Blogroll (a list of web links) management tools.  Among other things, lets you know when a site you read has been updated.  Accepts &#8216;pings&#8217; (update notification messages).  This blog began pinging yesterday, thanks to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bulknews.net\/lib\/archives\/ping_weblogs_com_xmlrpc\">ping_weblogs_com_rpc<\/a> plugin for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\" title=\"The Blosxom Homepage\">Blosxom<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blo.gs\/\">Blo.gs<\/a> &#8211; Another site that lets you track sites you read for updates.  Offers various forms of notification.  Accepts pings just like Blogrolling.com; I&#8217;m pinging them the same way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dansanderson.com\/blogtracker\/\">Blogtracker<\/a> &#8211; Allows you to track sites you read, see recent updates.  Offers browser integration.  Gets update date from Weblogs.com (see below).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedster.com\">Feedster<\/a> &#8211; Feed search engine.  Indexes <span class=\"caps\">RSS <\/span>(and Atom) feeds, allowing you to search the content of nearly 250,000 blogs and other sites that offer feeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syndic8.com\">Syndic8<\/a> &#8211; Directory of <span class=\"caps\">RSS <\/span>Feeds.  Find feeds (news, sports, blogs, you name it) based on almost any criteria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogs.com\">Weblogs.com<\/a> &#8211; Lists weblogs that have changed in the last three hours.  Offers its data as <span class=\"caps\">XML.  <\/span>Accepts pings, which I provide as outlined above.  As far as I know, this is the  original &#8216;ping me when your site updates&#8217; website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are many other sites out there like these.  Why did I list these sites?  Each site listed links to <a href=\"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\">jclark.org<\/a> in some manner.  I have either registered with these sites (to be spidered or have my feeds polled), or someone else reads this site via on of these services, or I ping them when I update.  Some of these are services I&#8217;ve used myself (such as Feedster and Syndic8).  Some are sites I&#8217;ve found in my access logs (referer URLs of User-Agent strings), such as Bloglines.  Weblogs.com is one that I&#8217;ve been meaning to ping for a long time now, and it turns out that blo.gs and Blogrolling.com use the same interface for pinging.  Three birds with one stone; and each site offers something unique as well.<\/p>\n<p>This list may grow; I had intended to list Technorati but they seem to be having technical difficulties as of late.  If you find any of these helpful, drop me a comment.  Likewise if you want to recommend a similar service. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Fixed the link for Blogtracker.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added a new feature to the weblog, a boxlet called Inroads. It&#8217;s a list of sites that lead to this blog in some fashion &#8211; blog indexes, update notification sites, rss feed search engines. Upon reflection, I should probably add Google to the list. 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