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Web Page Update Notification

[imbri]

For blogs, using feeds is also very helpful. Most of them contain at least one type of feed (you'll sometimes see them listed as RSS or XML or Atom and sometimes you'll just see a 'subscribe' link). You can get the feeds in a variety of ways as well. I'm most familiar with getting them in my browser (firefox's Sage extension) or through a program such as FeedDemon, but you can also get them online through various sources including the new personalized google page. Also, to be clear, blogs aren't the only websites that contain feeds and I use feeds for these forums as well as dozens of other sites.

Another point, sometimes update notification works against you. In both Mu and Lockjaw, we made many updates that that players that relied on such tools missed and, also, they found many "updates" that weren't true updates (such as fixing a typo or other such mundane task rumor has it we also occasionally made changes just to thwart such activity so as to not give away things we didn't want given away). So, while they may be helpful, I don't think that they're necessarily reliable if you're just hoping to further automate your ARGing. A better bet is to check in on the forums (perhaps with using a feed reader) as the vast majority of times, updates were mentioned there well before any tool found them.

Also, if you are looking for such a tool, this one may not be the best for ARG purposes.