The Bloggers’ Bulletin is currently listed under both the Blogging and the Social Media Categories at Alltop.com (“Alltop”). 
If you are unfamiliar with AllTop, it is a very popular, selective RSS aggregation site (not a mere “RSS feeds list”) started by renowned writer, blogger and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki. Kawasaki was was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984.
He is also noted for having brought the concept of ”evangelism,” initially focused on creating passionate user-advocates for the Apple brand, to the high-tech business.
You may ask: what is Really Simple Syndication, or “RSS?”
According to Wisegeek, “RSS or Really Simple Syndication is a useful tool for keeping updated on your favorite websites. RSS makes use of an XML code that constantly scans the content of a website for updates and then broadcasts those updates to all subscribers through a feed.”
What Alltop does with RSS feeds is group the feeds of the sites it has selected in to an “A-Z” array of categories.
Now, in my opinion, Alltop potentially offers a great deal of value for business bloggers who, for the purposes of spending more time on their own social media endeavors, seek a way to spend less time tracking down all the pertinent news of the day. And “MyAlltop” — the name for the user-customized news profile in AllTop– enables a business blogger to do just that.
All one needs to do is select up to 100 news feeds from Alltop’s A-Z listing. These feeds are then aggregated at the MyAllTop page associated with one’s username.
Of course you might argue: “Wait a minute, Alltop just sounds like NetVibes or PageFlakes — two RSS aggregators that have been around for a while. What makes AllTop any different from them?
Well, Netvibes and Pageflakes include practically every news/blog feed that has an address. In contrast, Alltop’s small review team is selective, making sure Alltop displays, “only the top news websites and blogs for any given topic.”
And the site itself states the following: ”If you’ve gotten the impression that Alltop is not based on Computer Algorithms or popular voting, you’d be right. We are highly subjective and judgemental.” So, it’s pretty safe to say that Alltop.com is not just another RSS Feeds List.
What this means for the business blogger using AllTop is that s(he) doesn’t need to waste time gauging thousands of topical feed sources of unknown quality. If it’s listed on Alltop.com, its already a news/blog feed worth reading. Check it out!
