I’ll admit, I never really liked AllTop.com to begin with, so the new My.AllTop.com could have been a win, but it isn’t.
Too bad.
A number of people have hailed it as the “best” place to find new blogs on certain topics. That’s “true” in terms of yes you can, indeed, find good blogs on there but unfortunately it’s become a dumping ground of the “great” to not-so “great.” The result has had to “weed” through them, one at a time, researching them… one at a time.
Seriously, how do you really know if that blog is worth your time if you’ve never heard of it? You don’t. Typically, most people I know go off recommendations from their friends. So, the new AllTop would help satisfy that, right?
Almost.
Although I’ve created a http://my.alltop.com/churchcrunch site, I’m extremely limited on the choices of blogs that I can add since I’m completely dependent upon AllTop first having that blog in their network. As TechCrunch has noted, it’s not truly personalizable.
Fail.
But what really gets me the most is that AllTop, as a continual landing page and site for news and info is a complete waste of time, since you have to click each link independently and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll. A RSS Reader, like GoogleReader, is a far better choice. I’d never use AllTop as my daily goto source, I goto my Reader.
Are you using AllTop consistently? What are, for you, the pluses and minuses?