Michael Koby

Over the course of this week, I have really come to like AllTop.com, the latest venture from Guy Kawasaki.  AllTop.com is a news aggregator, but not in the way you think of.  It is not a replacement for Google Reader, Bloglines, or even Netvibes.  AllTop takes the "best" (read most popular) blogs and shows you the latest headlines from each.  Each one is categorized by subject and sub-topic.  So take for example, there is a section called "Geekery" it has sub-topics for Gadgets, Gaming, Linux, Macintosh, Popurls, Science, SEO, and Windows.  Then under windows you have links and headlines for all the more popular Windows bloggers.

But one extra cool thing about AllTop is the "People" section which has two sections of extreme interest: Egos and Twitterati.  Think of some of the most popular "internet celebrities" and you will find all their blogs under the "Egos" sub-topic.  This includes Fake Steve Jobs, Seth Godin, Michael Arrington, Fred Wilson, and many, many more.  The Twitterati section contains many of these same people’s twitter accounts and their latest posts.

AllTop allows you to skim the more popular blogs and egos of the internet in a quick manner.  It is great for finding interesting things to read and post about.  You can use it to contribute to the current conversation on the internets and since that is one of the major parts of blogging, it makes this much simpler.

AllTop is definitely one of my new favorite websites.

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At the moment, you can not use OpenID to leave comments on the site.  This is mainly due to some bugs in the OpenID plugin that I will sort out and figure out.  It might also be tied to the fact that my hosting service is upgrading to PHP5 and the version of PHP5 they are using causes issues with the current version of the OpenID plugin.

I’ll get it worked out here real soon (probably around the time I finish the new theme I’m working on).  And I’ll get OpenID comments working again.

I really wish that the Wordpress developers would just integrate OpenID into Wordpress so that Wordpress users can have an OpenID and they can integrate it into their sites with ease.

Matt Wood, over at 43 folders, wrote an article entitled, Re-evaluating Your Online Commitments.

I just finished reading the article and he makes several interesting points.  Earlier this year I suffered massive burn out from work, blogging, online reading, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace,  and even my radio show.  I replaced my job with a better one.  But it caused me to burn out faster on the rest of my online activities and even my radio show started to become routine.

The end result was I ended up stopping the regular updates on my blog, cut MySpace mainly out of my life, and even stopped Twittering (even though at the time I wasn’t doing it that much).  Derek (the host of the radio show) and I even started making changes to the format of our radio show and even added a new co-host.  Things have been looking up recently in the way of my online world. Read more »