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Technorati watchlists need work

Started by paulmwatson · 11 months ago

Watchlists are an important part of the future of RSS feeds. Unfortunately the Technorati implementation is quite poor though in fairness so are all the other watchlist systems I have used.
An example will illustrate this best. For ego and practical use I have a Technorati watchlist with the follo ... Continue reading »

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  • Dorion Carroll

    2 years ago

    Paul, although I cannot fix the specific problem re: Technorati Watchlists, I can offer an alternative. All Technorati keyword, URL, and Tag search results are available as RSS directly from the search interface and support complex queries including language filtering.

    An English language filtered query for "Paul Watson" -pirate -captain -whale looks like:

    http://feeds.technorati.com/search/%22Paul+Wats...

    If you wanted to further filter for blogs with A little authority, could run that search and either use the feed auto-discovery or the Subscribe button.

    I realize that you would have to unsubscribe and resubscribe each time you refine your search, but I do believe this solution will give you what you asked for as far as subscribed search results go.

    Good luck and thank you for using Technorati.
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  • Paul Watson

    2 years ago

    Thanks Dorion, that is an improvement. Now if we could just wrap that functionality into the Watchlist UI.
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