Technorati

I just gave the web service Technorati a try. One of the things that appealed to me was the feature whereby you give it a subject (eg. "Glastonbury Festival", "iPod" etc) and it provides you with a list of blog posts regarding the subject. I thought if it was good enough, I could take an RSS feed of each 'Watchlist' and include it in my Google Reader feeds.

So I tried this, but sadly almost all of the posts suggested are spam. Shame as its a good idea.

One good thing about Technorati though is the homepage. Using a nifty ajax interface, it provides a stream of new blog posts, sort of in real-time. It's something Delicious would benefit from. A few posts in I found a good YouTube video which was about a help desk setup to support the Death Star, manned by down-to-earth Storm Troopers. It crashed my browser though :-(

The strange thing is, since signing up for the service I can't seem to find that real-time feed! Typical.