Home Office Warrior Featured on Alltop

Featured in Alltop
Thats right, Home Office Warrior is featured at Alltop’s Startups section.

This from Alltop’s About Page:

We help you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web. We’ve grouped these collections — ”aggregations” — into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as environment, photography, science, celebrity gossip, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, we display the latest five stories from thirty or more sites on a single page — we call this “single-page aggregation.”

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.”

Go visit Alltop’s and check out the long list of great sites they are providing feeds too.

Alltop- What is it?

Alltop.jpgI have been watching and looking at Alltop for a few weeks now. And I have really been trying to figure it out. Thanks to chrisbrogan.com for putting up his post, Alltop - Encouraging the Mainstream today. I am including the main points of Chris’ post for you to read below. I think he sums it up better than I could.


What Is It

Alltop is an Internet magazine rack, fed by blogs. It is a site that aggregates summary content from multiple blogs into categories of interest. The source blogs feed information into Alltop by way of their RSS feed, but all of this plumbing is hidden away under the covers so that Alltop users don’t have to think about it.

Who Uses It

Alltop isn’t for you or me. It’s for friends and family and coworkers who aren’t yet surfing at the speed of light with Google Reader, or adding meta commentary via FriendFeed. It’s for our neighbor who still logs into AOL, or people who want to read a sampling of information without a lot of customization.

Why Should You Care

First, check out the various categories at Alltop. Is your blog a great representative of one of the categories? You might contact Guy and ask to be listed in that category. Second, this is another way to get people comfortable with using blogs as sources of information. Remember, you and I are IN this world. We forget that others still question the credibility of blogs.

Source for Post chrisbrogan.com.

RSS in Plain English

As you most likely know, I am on a crusade to increase the number of RSS and Email subscribers on Home Office Warrior. While I know I take it for granted that everyone should know what RSS is, that is just not the case. I have a LINK above which explains what RSS is. But, I know sometimes a picture is worth a thousands words. And this video is worth even more than that.

Take a look at the video and I do hope it answers any questions you might have about RSS. And when you are done watching it, if you don’t already subscribe to HOW, here are the links to do so.

  • EMAIL Subscription
  • RSS Subscription
  • Common Craft had this great plain English explanation of what RSS is. Check it out. If you have not jumped on the RSS wagon because you were not quite clear what it does or how it can help you. This video should get you to a point you will use it.

    There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.

    Enjoy!!!

    Full-Text RSS Feeds!!!!!

    I have written about full-text RSS feeds before. But, I must vent. There is nothing that is more troubling than reading my RSS feeds that come into my feeder and I am expected to “click” on the title so I can actually read it.

    There is no solid research out there that says your traffic will decrease if you are providing full-text RSS feeds. In fact, I have to say as an experienced blogger, I usually don’t read a post if I don’t get to read it in my RSS feeder. I very seldom go to a blog to read “the rest of the story”.

    For example, some of the “big boys” provide full-text RSS feeds. They include:

    I would venture to guess none of the above have seen a decrease in traffic since they offer full-text RSS feeds. Get with it people, offer full-text RSS feeds. It is just a matter of setting it in your blogs preferences. And you never know, your traffic might actually increase. Your Trackbacks might increase. And the commenting on your blog may increase too.

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