13. A method for delivering author specific content, comprising: crawling open content across multiple online resources to identify content that appears to have been generated by a specific author; building an author database that stores an identification of a first author along with a string provided by a content site having content generated by the first author, the string identifying a key that encrypts the first author's identification and the Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the content site; receiving input from a user that registers the user and identifies a specific author that the user wants to follow; and generating an activity stream based on the user input to notify the registered user of content from the multiple online resources generated by the specific author.
18. The method of claim 13 , further comprising: registering authors with the author database; and accepting input from registered authors to identify their respective content.