For the Information-alholics

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Bruce Keener

If you just can’t get enough information, you may want to check out Guy Kawasaki’s new feed service: Alltop. I just gave it a quick tour, and must say that I don’t think I have ever seen so information in one place. If you are information junkie, here’s another good way to get your fix.

It’s not a site that interests me, because I prefer to filter information as much as practical. For example, over the past couple of months I have finally cut the number of feeds in my Google Reader account from over 150 to 90. There are a few more that I will likely cut out, too. Of course, this process is a dynamic one: I will occasionally add a new subscription, and in time will be back to over 100 feeds, and then I will probably cut some more.

But a lot of folks prefer to have a lot of information, and then to mentally filter it themselves … if you are one, check out Kawasaki’s new launch.

Update: Well, I guess I am an information junkie, because I find myself checking Alltop every day now. So, I do recommend you give it a look. You can pick up a lot of info in a quick glance.

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  • Thomas R. Hall

    Wow. 90 feeds from 150? Nice. I need to do some pruning as well. I have 271 active feeds right now. A lot of duplication in there. Thanks for the info on Alltop. I would have thought it was a splog site or something that was just listing links.

  • http://www.keenerliving.com/ Bruce

    271 feeds? Maybe we should share OPML files to see what we can pick up from each other, and then cut down from the merged list.

    The duplication is the problem. Just today I have seen over a half-dozen headlines, different blogs, with exactly the same title “iPhone SDK downloads top 100,000″ (or something like that). I don’t mind having a lot of information, as long as it is the right information and non-duplicative. But, it can take time to figure out which blogs are not really adding any value and are nothing but “me too” blogs.

    Back to Alltop: Kawasaki is a sharp guy, so I was surprised to see him invest so much into such a site. Perhaps he has researched ‘the market” enough to know that there are a lot of info junkies out there … he forgot to ask my opinion, though ;) And Michael Arrington and Paul Stamatiou have foo-foo’d Alltop as well. Could turn out to be a success, though.