Acts of Volition

I spend a lot of time reading on the web, but much of that time is spent (or starts) on a small collection of great sites. Some of these sites update every few hours (Slashdot), and others only every few days (Blogzilla).

A friend of mine, Jevon, has put together a great little tool to keep track of updates on your favourite sites. Blogtrack will scan a list of sites for you and notify you of which sites have updated.

There are other good tools along these lines. Most notably, Dan Sanderson's similarly named BlogTracker. Sanderson's tool works well, but is limited to monitoring sites that register their updates with the Weblogs.com services. Jevon's tool works on any site.

Give it a shot (be sure and read the 'bt Tips' section once you’ve signed up).