11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the trust policy considers whether an alleged identity of an author of the content is presented by an online resource containing the content.
8. A method for delivering author specific content, comprising: crawling open content across the multiple online resources; identifying content in any of the multiple online resources that appears to have been generated by a specific identified author; determining whether the content is from an online resource that is trusted, based on a trust policy; authenticating that the author who allegedly generated the content is the author of the content if the online resource is not trusted under the trust policy; delivering to a subscribing user, via an activity stream, an indication of the content identified as being by the specific identified author from the multiple online resources; and storing 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.