Comments on: I went willingly… to Alltop

By: A rising tide that lifts all blogs | Broadcasting Brain

A rising tide that lifts all blogs | Broadcasting Brain — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:24:08 +0000

[...] However, we need to keep emphasizing things like portals, indexes, and search engines. Alltop, as I’ve written before, can only help to promote the blogosphere and social media in [...]

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Sat, 10 May 2008 06:15:48 +0000

[...] noted in her blog…Sarah Perez was inducted, also noted on her blog…and Mark Dykeman was added…congrats to all, the recognition is well-deserved…please pass along updates on traffic [...]

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:55:12 +0000

@RJLeaman - well, thanks. Truthfully, Alltop seems to be fairly open to requests, too.

By: rjleaman

rjleaman — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:24:51 +0000

Congratulations on the inclusion, Mark. I know there are mixed feelings out there about the Alltop portals, but it seems to me that the same “selection by editorial discretion” (versus user-created custom start pages) that’s often criticized is also the strength of these portals: after all, DMOZ.org gained its (fading) status as the mother of all directories primarily because the listings were human-edited. We may not agree with all editorial choices, but at least we know someone’s been making an effort to sort through the wheat/chaff of the Internet haystack!

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By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:45:45 +0000

@Robin - your idea sounds awfully close to what Netvibes does already

By: Robin Cannon

Robin Cannon — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:51:43 +0000

Something along those lines. Although the ideal for me would be to sign up to any blog and have my page of subscriptions presented in the same way as Alltop. So effectively not being limited to those already on Alltop. Admittedly that’s probably unlikely, but something that lets you configure from among the blogs they’ve already selected would be a great start.

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By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:15:49 +0000

@Robin - when you say individually configured, do you mean where you could choose the Alltop pages that you’d want to see and then select the ones you want to read of the list of available blog? That sounds like a good idea, where the default view would be to see all blogs in that Alltop.

By: Robin Cannon

Robin Cannon — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:06:59 +0000

I’m a fan of Alltop, I think as you say it’s a genuinely accessible “in” to a lot of great blog content.

To be honest, while there’s a lot of chat at the moment about the increased functionality of Google Reader, what I’d really love is an individually configurable Alltop. I love its presentation style and it’d be a perfect browser homepage.

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By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:17:42 +0000

@BarbaraKB - BUSTED!

By: BarbaraKB

BarbaraKB — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:51:45 +0000

talk about a club…
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