Tara’s now talking about RSS feeds. Who offers RSS feeds? Everybody. Static or keyword-based feeds. The latter gets you more precise information because it’s targeted. Examples are news discovery (like from Google news or Feedster), resource discovery (del.icio.us or flickr), or Web watching (IceRocket or MSN search). Web watching is particularly useful for academic information, largely because you can build a really exact search. Her example is titanium mining limited to .edu sites. Now she’s limited it further, to sites from South Africa. That takes her down to 3 results.

Now she’s on to doing things with feeds. To manage the feeds, try FeedShake or Feed Digest. Searches from multiple engines mushed together. I’m convinced, Tara. I’ll go play with these last two, neither of which I’ve used.