Lazy Person's Guide to being a NewsMaster Part 1: Use PubSub to track your URL, name and topic
If you want to be a NewsMaster check out my <a href=”http://www.streamlinewebco.com/blog/_archives/2004/4/21/37574.html”“>Lazy Person’s Guide to being a NewsMaster Part 1:PubSub</a>, over on <a href=”http://www.streamlinewebco.com/”“>StreamLine</a>.
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This is part 1 of my new guide called The Lazy Person's Guide to being an NewsMaster. What is a NewsMaster? Robin Good (as far as I know) defined the term in his excellent post, The RSS NewsMaster as RSS Dolby. I would generalize this further and define them as Internet Dolby. That is, NewsMasters sift through the web, remove the noise and reveal what is pertinent and relevant to you and your organizations. NewsMasters aren't new; I think any decent librarian has similar skills. What is new, is the great amount of information, noise and chaos on the web that must be sorted and sifted through to find the nuggets of knowledge you seek. The truly paranoid and the truly egotistical (and no matter how selfless we try to be, we all have an ego and paranoia, right?) want to know what is being said by people about them or their organization and their topics of interest on the web To do this properly, you'd hire a NewsMaster like myself (or an Internet savvy librarian). I believe that organizations will have full-time NewsMasters eventually but until then since it's still early you can do it yourself cheaply and quickly by following the steps in this guide. The best way today to do this on the web is by checking out what bloggers say. Although bloggers only represent 1% of the current online population, their influence is considerable because they are mavens (experts), and connectors to (to use the terminology from The Tipping Point). The best way to track what bloggers are saying about you is to use PubSub to track what bloggers are saying about you, your organization any and your topics of interest. So here's how to use PubSub to find out what bloggers are saying about you, your organization and your topics of interest:
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