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George Costanza

I am a contributing writer for Stepcase Lifehack, the popular Productivity, Getting Things Done, and Lifehacks blog. Here are some of my recent posts there:

The George Costanza Lifehack for Overcoming Fear and Anxiety

3 Ways to Stop Living Vicariously Through Technology

Three Reasons Why Alltop Kicks Ass

1) They “help out underdogs and undiscovered gems”

Check out this graph- I’ve plotted the Alltop sites/blogs listed under the Lifehacks category, by their Alexa (popularity) ranking:

Alltop Lifehacks Category: Alexa Rankings

Compared to other methods of getting attention/building traffic, there just aren’t a lot of options for new bloggers. Google largely bases search results on the number of sites linking to your site, so this makes getting traffic from Google with a new blog very difficult. Getting to the front page of Digg requires that you have 1) A Digg-worthy post (usually a list of some sort, or a somewhat sensationalized story) and 2) A strong network of other Diggers to help you make the story popular. Again, this is very difficult for new bloggers.

2) The sites and blogs listed on Alltop are hand-picked, with feedback from the micro-blogging community

The Alltop about page explains, “The Twitter community has been the single biggest factor in the quality of Alltop. Without this group of mavens and connectors, Alltop would not be what it is today.”

Alltop is basing the sites they list on the wisdom of the community. This gives them a much higher-quality selection of sites than any automated algorithm could produce.

3) The diversity of the content under each category gives you a macro view that you can’t find elsewhere

This ties in with reason #1, but when you have super-popular websites, alongside brand-new unpopular websites, it creates a whole new perspective that you wouldn’t traditionally see. One reason for this is because the writers of those different types of sites usually come from very different backgrounds and write about very different topics.

Google couldn’t get away with putting brand-new unpopular websites at the top of their search results, because part of the algorithm for determining relevance is the number of sites linking to a site. But Alltop can put unpopular sites next to super-popular ones, because they are hand-picked by the community.

Here’s a link to the post- Brighten up your life: 3 Tips from Thomas Edison on Living Optimistically

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Each person uses the site differently, but here is how I use AllTop: I have several topics that I’m really interested in, and Alltop aggregates all the best news/blog posts from those topics for me. I still use Google Reader to subscribe to my favorite feeds. But I also like using Alltop because allows me to have a macro level of a topic of interest, showing content that I wouldn’t see otherwise, and I can zoom in and browse that content if I find it interesting.