I’m Mike

I’ve been looking for a way to easily monitor stories from my website that appear on digg.com so that I can prepare if a story looks like it might reach the front page. My first solution was to simply subscribe to the RSS search results feed for my domain. Doing this is pretty simple: search for your domain using digg’s search utility, specifying “URL only” as the search criteria. Then subscribe to the RSS feed on the results page.

I’ve added the resulting RSS feed to my Google homepage, which allows me to keep tabs on upcoming stories from my site. But there are two problems with this method: it doesn’t tell you how many diggs stories have, and Google caches the feed results so you’re looking at old data.

After my recent foray into google gadgets I realized that a simple google gadget could solve both problems, so I wrote one. It’s based on the official Digg gadget with one additional option — monitoring stories for a specific website. If you want to try it out, you can click here to add it to your google homepage.