In a previous post I talked about My Online Wonderland, and how I use Netvibes to aggregate content around the topics that help me stay relevant in the online space, and are also of personal interest to me. I recommend for everyone, regardless of industry or predilection, to do the same.
If you’re looking for blog posts and news stories related to celebrities, fashion, politics, science, sports, and gaming, but don’t know where to start, then check out Alltop, a new site from Guy Kawasaki and the creators of Truemors. If you’re looking for more tech and web related content, Alltop might be able to help, but you’ll have to look under the Egos category, which happens to be the category most relevant to me, not because of the name, but because many of the blogs I read are listed in this category (including Guy’s own blog).
My personal thoughts on Alltop are:
- It’s a good place to start for all the top stories…
- …if all the top stories you’re looking for are blog posts or news stories from one of the 30 (per category) site-identified sources. Here’s where I take a little issue. I checked out the About page and I couldn’t seem to find an explanation for how content sources are identified as “top” in each category, and what makes certain sites appear higher on the page than others. I’d like to know if this is just one person’s definition of the top stories, or if there is something more scientific or data driven going on here.
