Alltop

I recently discovered Alltop, which is a great site for looking at the latest posts on all of the most popular websites and blogs for any given area. For instance, you can find out all the news this week about health, or nursing, or branding, or books, or music, or gardening, or photography, or futurism (yes, futurism), or one of many other topics.  Not only is it a great way to get the latest news about your favorite hobby or professional inquiry, it’s an easy way to find out about all the best websites or blogs in your area of interest.  I’ve enjoyed checking out many of the different areas and found some new blogs to subscribe to myself, so I thought you all might, as well.  Enjoy!

Getting RSS feeds in your email

Not everyone has heard about or likes to use RSS to get their news. For those who prefer to get their information in their email like a good ole listserv, there is SendMeRSS.com. SendMeRSS allows one to get blogs, news, or other website updates in the form of email, instead of going to a separate reader or homepage to learn about new posts.  I don’t mind sending out email updates about the blog to those who ask for them, but I thought this might be a good tool for that same group in case they come across other blogs or websites with which they would like to keep up.

For those who don’t know about RSS yet, here’s a video on the concept.  I would be glad to teach anyone who is interested in RSS to use it and help them get started anytime.  It’s one of my favorite technologies out there today, and I try to tell people about it whenever I can.