How to keep up with the best of the ‘net

Posted by Doug on January 8, 2009

I love Google Reader, and most weeks I like to spend at least two or three hours perusing the hundreds of articles that seem to pile up there much more quickly than I can read them.  I really like Google Reader’s “top recommendations” feature, which suggests sites that I might want to read, based on what’s already in my subscription list.  But recently I found a site that has helped me discover stuff I might not have found otherwise–it is apparently the brainchild of Guy Kawasaki, and it’s called AllTop.

AllTop is a site that aggregates the best of the Web–blog articles, Web sites, all sorts of stuff, all categorized and searchable by keyword and topic.  For example, if your interest is Web design, you can click on “W” in the alphabetic index strip and find “Web Design” in the list that appears–click on that and you’ll be taken to a page that lists up to five of the latest articles on more than fifty of the top Web design blogs and sites on the ‘net.

After just a short time of exploring AllTop, I was pretty impressed.  But the site acknowledges that the inspiration for AllTop comes from another similar site called PopURLS, which is also worth checking out.  PopURLS aggregates a whole slew of the most popular stuff on the Web, including the latest and greatest from sites like Digg, Reddit, Flickr, YouTube, Delicious, Slashdot, BoingBoing, Fark, Lifehacker, and many others.

With so much information available each and every day, tools like these can make it a little bit easier to keep abreast with what’s going on, what people are saying, what’s new and interesting–if you need an idea, or some inspiration, or if you’re looking for something specific, or if you’re just wanting to be entertained for a while, check these sites out.

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