Info Geek Enabler: PubSub
Ah PubSub, where have you been my whole life? I think I found out you through Micropersuasion and now belong to a scret club of my own sinister and pathetic question.
Question to the gallery: Are you the kind of person who gets angry when you discover your favorite had an Op-Ed in the paper two weeks ago and you missed? Of course you aren’t. You have a life to lead.
PubSub lets you create a "Subscription list" of phrases (in my case, names like Susan Orlean, Nelson George and Sarah Vowell) then sends you, via RSS, whenever their names are mentioned in a blogosphere. It’s a fabulous tool for writers who leave very few trace elements online or who don’t have their own websites. Which is most of them.
I’m going to be using it for my name when my book comes out.
Continuing living. Nothing but Info-Geekery here.