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Tracking one author across multiple publications. Possible?

6 points by rianjs ↗ HN
Let us say I like an author. Ed Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard. He contributes regularly to Economix (economix.blogs.nytimes.com), but he also writes for other publications. E.g., an article in TNR ( http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/what-city-needs?page=0,1 )

Unless Glaeser maintains a Twitter feed or a blog and updates it when he's written something new, there's no comprehensive way to track his mainstream publications. (He has neither.)

Has someone developed a method of aggregating content like this and consolidating it in the form of an RSS feed or tweet stream?

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onreact-com
Create a FriendFeed account dedicated to him and add his RSS feeds :-)

Or try Yahoo Pipes.

rwolf
Yahoo Pipes is yummy for this sort of the thing--the Willy Wonka GUI will make your day. It's what I use to gather my favorite webcomics into a single massive feed.
eisokant
This covers news sites: http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&hl=en&q=author:%2...
rianjs
Cool, that works pretty well, actually. Except that it doesn't index quite a few blogs. I did create my own RSS feeds for a couple of people, though. Double excellent that if the entries are dupes in Google Reader, reading an entry in one section causes it to disappear from the other.
pclark
hi, my startup will allow you to track authors across multiple sources - not at launch - but within the next few months.