Keeping track of radio content using Technorati
I’ve recently been digging Technorati (Peter describes it as “Google for weblogs“). I’ve set up a watchlist for CBC Radio, so everytime somebody blogs about our national public broadcaster, it shows up in my Bloglines.
And tonight, I learned about Technorati tags, which allow bloggers to categorize their posts. Apparently you can search by tag, so I tried to set up a watchlist for tag:radio. Presuming it works, I’ll get radio photos from Flickr, links from del.icio.us and Furl, and blog posts from Technorati, all in one feed categorized by human beings.
I like when information I want comes right to me.
Update: the watchlist I created for “tag:radio” kept coming up empty, so I emailed the folks at Technorati, and they told me that tag watchlists haven’t been implemented yet.
Their full reply, including a workaround, follows:
Dan,This is on our “short list” for feature extensions. We hope to have it
soon.There’s one thing you can do in the meantime: You can create a watchlist on URL for the tag, for example:
http://technorati.com/tag/radio
The limitation is that you’ll only get posts with Technorati tags in them, not blog categories. But perhaps you’ll find this useful until we get our act together
Hope this helps. Thanks for your interest in what we’re doing, and for taking the time to write to us.Adam Hertz
Vice President of Engineering
Technorati, Inc.
