I was looking at blog books in Amazon and came across Way Path. Way Path’s Topic Streams “automatically aggregate topic-specific information feeds with content from around 3 million weblogs. We're still perfecting Topic Streams in the Waypath Labs. Keep an eye out for changes, as well as new Streams. Topic Streams are available in RSS feeds, as well.”
They offer among other things, Movable Type Plugin
“This is a plugin for Movable Type that works in the MTEntry context and inserts a "related posts from Waypath" section, containing links to and abstracts of posts that discuss similar topics to ones in your weblog, even when those posts aren't linked to yours. It's a great complement to trackbacks and blogrolls.”
They also have a blog. It covers: “Contextual Navigation, Semantic Search, and all things Waypathic.” It is very techny in a personal way if you like that stuff.
Dennis Kennedy at the Blawg Channel offers this comment on Waypath. "The Waypath It! Bookmarklet is a great example of the family of cool and useful little tools known as bookmarklets. " He goes on to say, Here's the money quote:
"Waypath shows posts that are discussing the topics in the story that you were reading, not just posts which link to the story. That means that you get posts from bloggers who may be linking to the BBC or NYT version of the same story. And it works on those interesting fringe stories that no one is linking to at all. Neat, huh?"
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