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I found a very cool Internet tool via the always rockin’ BoingBoing.

BlogDigger is a search engine for RSS and Atom feeds from blogs and other websites that update via the text feeds. My blog has one here, for instance.

You can even search media feeds from PodCasts (and a good explanation about how to set that up can be found here).

The idea is to narrow the search universe. Google is great, but it often produces way more results than you want. With BlogDigger, you can pare that search down.

For instance, I typed “Blagojevich” into the RSS search and found several snarky posts about the governor on blogs I’d never heard of.

From Catallarchy comes this:

Illinois Governor Launching Program to Reimport Windows

Despite opposition from Microsoft, Illinois will soon become the nationâ€™s first government to help residents buy cheaper software not only from India but from Russia and Malaysia as well.

Microsoft has forcefully objected to efforts to formalize software purchases from India and elsewhere, saying it cannot vouch for the quality of its software once it leaves the country. In addition, according to a Microsoft spokesperson, if everyone purchased the low cost version of Windows, they would not be able to pay their huge R&D costs.

â€œWe have taken every possible step we could think of to convince Microsoft, the Congress, and anyone and everyone who will listen, that people across Illinois, and across our country, deserve access to safe and lower cost software,â€ Blagojevich said in a statement. â€œThe federal government has failed to act. So itâ€™s time that we do.â€

Blagojevich went on to claim that the lower-cost reimported version of Windows would only be resold to schools, the poor, and the elderly. â€œIf the Indians can get Windows on the cheap, why shouldnâ€™t needy Americans?â€

And from Nacho comes this:

The questions going around my office todayâ€¦

Would you rather go on a date with Rod Blagojevich or Richard Daley?
Would you rather go on a date with Maria Pappas or Judy Baar Topinka?

Discuss.

The discussion is pretty funny.

Blogdigger has some other features, so definitely go check it out.

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Dec 8, 04 @ 9:01 am

Comments

>Would you rather go on a date with Maria Pappas or Judy
>Baar Topinka?

Maria.

I’d think she’d put out before Judy.

Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Dec 9, 04 @ 6:40 am