Social Aggregating

Social Aggregation seems to be the new cool thing in the web 2.0 world this week. The premise seems sound: Why follow folks via a dozen different services? Instead, pull them all into one service and follow there.

To that end, I’ve been experimenting with a couple of the apps this week. Both have great potential.

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FeedEntryHeader – Stop Scrapers?

One of my largest pet peeves has to be feed scraping. It is a habit lower life forms have of scraping my RSS into their blogs and presenting it as their own content.

That drives me nuts. Not that I have an issue with sharing what I write — this is all under the Creative Commons

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Ideas? Tracking Updates on Web Pages

Keeping up to date with a site that doesn’t offer some sort of notification system can be a real pain. While a lot of blogs and news sites will offer feeds and/or email notifications, the majority of sites still do not.

For both home and work use I’m trying to turn up a useful way

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Housekeeping – Using the Current Feed?

Rich asks, in a recent comment, what happened to my feed.  Good question!  Turns out I cleaned out an old .htaccess file a couple weeks ago and dumped some redirects that I didn’t think were used any longer.

So, if you’re using a feed that has “blogX” somewhere in it, time to update — just click

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Google Reader Shared Items

Somehow, someway, it seems there should be a way to see how many folks have shared an article with Google Reader.

Or for the narcissists, a way to see how many have shared one of my own articles.

Just seems like that would be a cool social aspect…