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!
译文:
别再为大量的帖子劳神，Alltop可以帮你搞定
我已经扔掉了自己在线阅读器的帐号。最高峰时，它为我保留了206份几乎天天都要看到的帖子，简直要了我的命。
我现在想到这件事时仍然感到头大，因为，光是登录查看1，000多份未读帖子就让人头昏脑胀。这就好比每天早上一睁眼，就要面对重新生成的长长的任务单，无论你之前已经完成了多少。
我现在打算使用一个名叫
Alltop的新网站。这个网站的设计简单到不可思议，而对其功能恰如其分的描述如下：
你可以把Alltop网站想像成“仪表板”，“目录”，甚至“数码刊物架”。说的清楚点，Alltop网站只不过是起点——它本身不是目的地。说到底，我们是希望通过提供你已经在访问的网站的内容，并帮你发现你以前不知道的网站来提高你的在线阅读。我们希望以这种方式做到“打破互联网的缺乏灵活性”。
实质上，你需要访问Alltop并点击你想要了解的类别（见下表）。
在这里，只要点击上表中的某个类别，Alltop就会提供20多家网站和博客当天相关内容的标题，非常的整齐，请看：
我仍有可能会用谷歌来搜索少量特殊的帖子，但是，我的大部分阅读要靠Alltop了。就我个人而言，我喜欢这个网站的原因是，我不再需要费神清理所订阅的在线阅读以及摆脱已丧失生命力的博客了。它还可以阻止我订阅纯粹消磨时间的阅读材料。
顺便说一句，一定要查看
Lifehacks section。当初，看到DLM 也在其中时，我非常高兴！