IBM Announces "Blog-Spotting" Software

notesdude writes to tell us InternetNews is reporting that IBM has announced new "Blog-Spotting" software that will allow the monitoring of blogs, wikis, news feeds, consumer review sites, newsgroups, and other community-generated content. From the article: "People can share and spread opinions faster than ever before and that's accelerated the impact of public opinion on businesses"

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How is this new?

[twiddlingbits]

Sounds to me a whole lot like RSS just from IBM. RSS has been around a while and works pretty good. For those who don't know:

RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.

Aha!

[snib]

This must be what /. uses to get all their news from blogs!

Re:Blogspotting

[TedCheshireAcad]

I am so depressed that I squandered my mod points yesterday modding down trolls on the Intelligent Design thread. You deserve +5.

OK, how do I set "ignoreblogs=true"?

[Animats]

Now if we can just get Google to move blogs downward in searches, that will be a big help. I'm tired of having to track through three layers of bloggers to get to the actual info. Slashdot stories have been suffering from this problem lately. (Earth to Slashdot: we need the ability to moderate stories.)

Yes, sometimes news breaks on a blog, but mostly, it's just drivel.