Tracking Blog Citations to NYT Articles

This weekend has the weekend for finding "nifty-as-all-getout" stuff. The latest on the plate is The Annotated New York Times, available at http://nytimes.blogrunner.com/ . This cool tool tracks blogosphere citations to NYT articles.

The front page is set up with the most popular current articles, articles and op-ed broken down by category, and pointers to the most popular articles of x time period (30 days, 7 days, etc.) There are also links to the most popular authors.

Pick a story and you'll get a summary, a pointer to the article, and a list of citations from Weblogs with extractions from the Weblogs. Since a lot of these extractions are commentary, they tend to be fairly long. Some of these citation listings went on for pages and pages.

The thing about The Annotated New York Times that makes me do a happy dance is their list of RSS feeds -- holy cow. There are dozens and dozens (hundreds?) of feeds here. There are feeds for headlines of the NYT, and feeds for citations of articles. They're in alphabetical order from Abortion to Writing and Writers. There's another set of feeds for NYT authors. Niiiiiice.

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