Lazyfeed: A Great Tool for Poetry and Everything Else

There are thousands of poetry blogs on the Internet, and more are created every day. All around the world, people are self-publishing their creative work in what has become a revolution in the world of poetry publishing. It's impossible to keep up with all the new poetry that's put online each day. Traditional tools, like subscribing to every blog via RSS, can create an overwhelming barrage of reading material, more than a single person can get through. And even if you do subscribe to a lot of poetry blogs, how do you find new ones? Some poets are kind enough to post their work on Twitter, but this doesn't work well for longer poems and still has the same problem of discovery.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a tool where new articles from poetry blogs would come to you with minimal effort, and all in real time? Enter Lazyfeed: a relatively new tool in the world of real-time blog searching. The concept is relatively simple. Lazyfeed allows you to search the internet by tags on blog posts. It brings up the most recent posts that have the tag you're looking for. There's been a considerable amount of buzz about this service over the past couple weeks, most of it stemming from the enthusiasm of tech blogger Louis Gray. Here's a screencast from the site's creator that provides a more in-depth summary of the service:



Obviously, Lazyfeed is useful for any number of topics, but it's a great way to solve this aforementioned problem of finding and reading a large number of poetry blogs. By simply adding "poetry" as on of your saved tags, you can use Lazyfeed to retrieve all of the new posts written on the topic. From there it's very simple to share your finds on Twitter or Facebook, and to add your new favorite poetry blogs to an RSS reader. If you're looking to explore the ever-expanding world of poetry blogs, then Lazyfeed is definitely a tool for you.