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Posted in Reviews on: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 by Paul Boag

It’s hard to keep up with everything that is going online. Even with RSS web feeds, it is still impossible to subscribe to every cool site about web design. Things will be missed. However, what about if you use the power of digg.com to find things for you?


Digg.com

No doubt, you have already heard of digg.com. If you haven’t, digg is a news site that allows members to post technology stories they have read elsewhere on the web.

Not many people know this

What you might not know is that when you on the site you can save that search as an feed. For example if you search on the phrase "web " and subscribe to the associated RSS feed you will be undated every time a new story mentioning the words "web design" is added.

The limitations

Okay, so you knew that too! Clever bastard. Then no doubt, you are aware of the limitations of this service. Somebody might post a story on or AJAX and you wouldn’t pick up on it because it didn’t have the phase "web design" in it. What is more, at the moment you cannot search on multiple phrases at once.

The solution

However, there is a work around to this. Instead of adding each search individually to your news reader (which can get messy) you can use the RSS mix service to "splice" these various feeds together so giving you a single feed for all your chosen search phases.

The example

Here is one I prepared earlier (my Blue Peter reference of the day). This feed will return all digg.com stories that contain any of the following phases:

  • Web design
  • Web 2.0
  • Web standards
  • Accessibility

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Boagworld is produced by the web design agency Headscape founded by Marcus, Paul and Chris Scott. Headscape also has a number of other talented guys who blog. Check them out.

  • Craig Rowe is one of our amazing developers and writes some superb posts on everything from .net to AIR apps.

  • Ed Merritt is a Headscape designer who's blog contains examples of his work and a number of free Wordpress themes.

  • Dave McDermid is a Headscape developer who has an excellent blog. He blogs on everything from AJAX to security.

  • Rob Borley is one of our project managers and blogs regularly on client and project management issues.

  • Leigh Howells is our multimedia design guru (whatever one of those is). He blogs on a mixture of design and music.

Paul elsewhere

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