My blogging has been infrequent the last few weeks as I crank towards a book deadline and prepare for my annual summer sojourn to Prince Edward Island.…but please be assured that you’ll find more blog posts here shortly!

Well, while I’m here so to speak, I thought it might be worth mentioning a recent discovery: if you track comments on consumer generated video (eg YouTube, etc), I recently found out that an excellent way to do advanced keyword tracking of the title and description of a wide selection of consumer generated videos can be performed on the excellent audio video search site Blinkx



There are some particularly useful and valuable features too for creating really effective keyword feeds on Blinkx. For one, you can use an advanced search option to create more precise searches, using phrases, “all the words” and a “without the words” semi-Boolean search.

Furthermore, you can even limit the videos in your search to only the consumer generated ones if you so wish, which Blinkx calls the “Viral and Garage” videos. See the above screen shots for examples of how I set up an RSS feed on Blinkx to alert me to any “viral and garage” videos (which includes YouTube, as well as other popular consumer generated video sites) that contained the word “freegan”