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Tracking one author across multiple publications. Possible?
Let us say I like an author. Ed Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard. He contributes regularly to Economix (economix.blogs.nytimes.com), but he also writes for other publications. E.g., an article in TNR ( http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/what-city-needs?page=0,1 )
Unless Glaeser maintains a Twitter feed or a blog and updates it when he's written something new, there's no comprehensive way to track his mainstream publications. (He has neither.)
Has someone developed a method of aggregating content like this and consolidating it in the form of an RSS feed or tweet stream?
- onreact-com 17y agoCreate a FriendFeed account dedicated to him and add his RSS feeds :-) Or try Yahoo Pipes.
- rwolf 17y agoYahoo Pipes is yummy for this sort of the thing--the Willy Wonka GUI will make your day. It's what I use to gather my favorite webcomics into a single massive feed.
- eisokant 17y agoThis covers news sites: http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&hl=en&q=author:%22Edward+L.+Glaeser%22&scoring=n http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&hl=en&q=author:%2...
- rianjs 17y agoCool, that works pretty well, actually. Except that it doesn't index quite a few blogs. I did create my own RSS feeds for a couple of people, though. Double excellent that if the entries are dupes in Google Reader, reading an entry in one section causes it to disappear from the other.
- pclark 17y agohi, my startup will allow you to track authors across multiple sources - not at launch - but within the next few months.