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Creating a Vanity Folder in your News Aggregator of Choice isn’t difficult to do. Here’s how you do it:
1. Create a Folder in your feed reader and name it ‘Vanity Folder’ (or anything else you want to call it)
2. Fill it with ‘watch feeds’. These feeds might include:
- Technorati Watchlists - a ‘watchlist’ is a tool that Technorati offers for you to watch different keywords or URLs. Simply login to Technorati and go to their Watchlist page (http://technorati.com/watchlist/) and enter the keyword or URL you want to monitor. It will then give you an RSS feed that you can subscribe to for each term or URL. Subscribe to it and add it to your Vanity Folder. Tip: make a watchlist for your name, your blog’s URL and even your blog’s name (if it’s unique).
- Google News - Google News allows you to track different search terms via RSS also. Simply go to Google News and do a search for the term you want to track. You’ll get the latest appearance of that term in the results - but at the bottom of the left hand sidebar are some feed options including an ‘RSS’ link. This link is to a feed for the search term you’ve just entered. Subscribe to it and you’ll see any time that anyone’s mentioned that term in a mainstream news article.
- Google Blog Search - the same service is available to you Google’s Blog Search (http://blogsearch.google.com/). The only difference is that Google Blog Search tracks blogs only whereas Goolge News tracks mainstream media (and some blogs). As a result if you use subscribe to the same terms in Google News and Google Blog Search you’ll get some double up - however you’ll see some results in each that are different from one another.
- Bloglines Search - if you use Bloglines as your news reader it has a nifty little search feature that allows you to be notified of any mention of certain keywords. When I used Bloglines I used this. It would usually give similar results to the above methods - but occasionally picked up something that the other tools didn’t.
A Trackback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles. Some weblog software programs, such as Wordpress, Movable Type and Community Server, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published. The term is used colloquially for any kind of Linkback.
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| WordPress | |
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 WordPress's default configuration | |
| Developer | Matt Mullenweg Ryan Boren Donncha O Caoimh |
| Latest release | 2.3.2 / 29 December 2007 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Platform | PHP |
| Genre | Blog publishing system |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://wordpress.org/ |
WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg.
The latest release of WordPress is version 2.3.2, released on 29 December 2007. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
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Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by California-based Six Apart. It was publicly announced on 3 September 2001,[1] and version 1.0 was publicly released on 8 October 2001.[2] On 12 December 2007, Movable Type was relicensed as free software, under the GNU General Public License[3].
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