Google blogsearch is also useful. Not nearly as good as Icerocket--but it gets some stuff that IR misses. So does a standard Google search, once in a while.
Any phrase that pops up in several posts is worth searching for. Also, names of big-name bloggers + keyword helped sometimes. Deciding on a #fail tag early in a round of discussions helps tremendously, but isn't always feasible. (Tag should be unique to the event; "disabilityfail" is a bad idea. "Femdisfail" would've been possible, but sounds ridiculous, and I doubt it would've caught on.)
Nothing will consistently turn up posts on LJ that aren't searchable by Google. However, if you know the usernames of LJers who are outspoken on the topic, or just some of the controversial and heavily-linked or much-commented posts--visit their friendspages, and scroll through, looking for other people's reaction.
This is much, much more time-consuming than search engines. (And distracting. Reading strangers' f'pages is a fascinating game of its own.) But it'll turn up posts that you'd otherwise never find.
------- With signalboosts, if they had a good discussion going, I included them as standard posts. If I had time/awareness, I'd tag them as "signalboost w/discussion," but working alone, I often didn't bother.
If I were including other signalboosts, I'd probably separate them out, and leave them single-spaced so's not to overwhelm the other posts. (I considered posting them as bare links, rather than username + title-with-link, just to make it very obvious that they were different.)
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Any phrase that pops up in several posts is worth searching for. Also, names of big-name bloggers + keyword helped sometimes. Deciding on a #fail tag early in a round of discussions helps tremendously, but isn't always feasible. (Tag should be unique to the event; "disabilityfail" is a bad idea. "Femdisfail" would've been possible, but sounds ridiculous, and I doubt it would've caught on.)
Nothing will consistently turn up posts on LJ that aren't searchable by Google. However, if you know the usernames of LJers who are outspoken on the topic, or just some of the controversial and heavily-linked or much-commented posts--visit their friendspages, and scroll through, looking for other people's reaction.
This is much, much more time-consuming than search engines. (And distracting. Reading strangers' f'pages is a fascinating game of its own.) But it'll turn up posts that you'd otherwise never find.
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With signalboosts, if they had a good discussion going, I included them as standard posts. If I had time/awareness, I'd tag them as "signalboost w/discussion," but working alone, I often didn't bother.
If I were including other signalboosts, I'd probably separate them out, and leave them single-spaced so's not to overwhelm the other posts. (I considered posting them as bare links, rather than username + title-with-link, just to make it very obvious that they were different.)