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David Gilmour

Thursday 29 June 2006

We always like to know who's talking about Exc-el. And what they're saying, of course. But we haven't got Trackback to help here - at least so far - so we'd need to trawl a number of blog search engines to find out. And that's a pain.

Talk Digger ( www.talkdigger.com ) makes this easy. Give it a web page, and it queries a bundle of blog search engines (technorati, googleblog, bloglines, feedster, msnsearch, google, yahoo, digg - you can choose) and returns a usefully formatted summary .

Here's the example from the home page, showing how you can embed it in web pages.

Who's talking about Exc-el?

It's got great potential for quickly getting a variety of perspectives on anything in the news. Here's an example:

Who's talking about A Curriculum for Excellence?

In teaching, it could have value for:

  • quickly finding who's talking about specific student blog posts, but might not have left comments
  • quickly generating a variety of perspectives on a big news story (using, say, specific BBC page URL) or a web site (using site URL).
  • demonstrating the power of blogging to enable an individual's voice to be heard

Here's a final example using the recent BBC story about Blair's sudden enthusiasm for nuclear power .

Who's talking about PM 'convinced' on nuclear future

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