One of my skills in life is knowing when people have been talking about me. I don't know how most of the time, I just know. I'm also really good at managing to interrupt the gossip. I can tell you how I know when you've been doing it online, though. I get emails sent to me anytime a web page links to burghbaby.com. Here's how you can spy on other bloggers as well:

1. Go to Google Alerts.
2. In the Search Terms field, enter the url of your blog.
3. Leave the Type as Comprehensive.
4. Tell it how often to notify you that someone is talking about you. I have Daily selected.
5. Enter the email address you want the alert sent to.
6. Click Create Alert.

If you use Blogger but publish to a .com address or use any other redirects, you may want to set up an alert for both addresses since you'll only get a Google Alert on exact matches of your search term. For example, the actual address that I publish to is www.theburghbaby.com, but you can also type www.burghbaby.com to get to my blog. Even though both addresses go to the same place, the Google Alert doesn't know they are really the same thing. So, if I want alerts for everything pointed to me, regardless of which url someone uses, then I need to set up an alert for both.