It just occurred to me that since there are literally hundreds of thousands of blogs in the "Blogosphere":http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogosphere.htm, quite a number of them would be updated fairly regularly. Perhaps, at least, tens of thousands of blogs are updated at least once every 24 hours. Simple math tells us that thousands of postings are created every minute!
Mind boggling when one considers the amount of human knowledge that is created, distributed, shared and digested with each passing minute, with every single posting that is made on any particular blog. Wow.
Is there a way to keep track of this knowledge is real-time? Yes, there is. Its called "Daypop":http://www.daypop.com/.
bq. "Daypop is a current events search engine. Daypop crawls the living web at least once a day to bring you the latest information relevant to your searches.
bq. The living web is composed of sites that update on a daily basis: newspapers, online magazines, and weblogs. Weblogs are a new form of personal journalism. Think of them as opinion columns or slices of life. Newspapers give you the international headlines and weblogs give you both a subjective view of current events and a personal view of the author's life.
bq. Currently, Daypop indexes over 14600 of the best news sites and weblogs on the net every day."
The power of real-time blog indexing is obvious with the reports that such an index can provide (and remember, this info is constantly updated through the scheduled use of web-spiders):
# "The top 40 links":http://www.daypop.com/top/
# "The top blog postings":http://www.daypop.com/posts/
# "The top weblogs":http://www.daypop.com/blogrank/
# etc.
Value-added is created through RSS/XML feeds that allow the LIVE syndication of this data. One such feed has been incorporated in the VOI on the right hand bar, under the "Web's Best Blogs".
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