Monitoring weblogs on the fly

I have been thinking for a few days now that there must be a way to monitor web pages for changes automatically. I regularly visit quite a large number of weblogs on a wide range of topics. Having to load each page separately, when many of them may not have had an update, is very laborious and time-wasting.

So, I did a google search on ‘web page changes alerts’ and found a load of different approaches. They fall into two categories – web based and software based. I chose one which is web based, and free. It’s ‘WatchThatPage’ available here:

WatchThatPage – Monitor web pages extract new information

It looks really good. You can set it to send emails at a frequency to suit, with details of which of the pages have updated. Let’s hope it’s ‘as good as it says on the box’!