I have done away with my Bloglines account. At its peak, it maintained 206 feeds that I would review nearly every day; just shoot me.
The thought of it still irks me because the simple process of logging in to see >1,000 unread articles was mind numbing. It was reminiscent of having a task list that regenerated every morning no matter how much you accomplished.
What I have decided to rely on now is a new site named Alltop. It has an incredibly simplistic design and well, they provide the best description of what they do so here it is:
You can think of an Alltop site as a “dashboard,” “table of contents,” or even a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. To be clear, Alltop sites are starting points — they are not destinations per se. The bottom line is that we are trying to enhance your online reading by both displaying stories from the sites that you’re already visiting and helping you discover sites that you didn’t know existed. In this way, our goal is the “cessation of Internet stagnation.”Essentially, you go to Alltop and click on the section you want (see below).
From there, the site displays today's headlines from 20+ sites and blogs in that category. It's very clean, look here:
I will still probably use iGoogle for a handful of specialty feeds. However, Alltop will be the place I hit up for the lion's share of my reading. I personally like it because I can stop cleaning out my RSS subscriptions and getting rid of dead blogs. It will also stop my trigger finger from subscribing to things that are simply time killers.By the way, be sure to check out the Lifehacks section. I was pretty pleased to see that DLM was included!
