Comments on: A New Way to View Travel News … Sort of

By: Karen Bryan

Karen Bryan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:18:26 +0000

I think that Travel Alltop is great, not just because my blog, Europe a la Carte is listed near the top. Travel Alltop offers a simple easy way to scan the recent entries of more than 60 travel blogs. As a non techie person I think that most of the negative comments about Alltop appear to come from techie types who are well versed in RSS feeds who don’t appreciate the benefits of Alltop to a good proportion of current or potential blog readers.

I notice that Mike didn’t appear to take up Guy’s offer to remove the Vagabondish feed from Travel Alltop

By: Mike Richard

Mike Richard — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:52:28 +0000

Sean: Yeah, I know what you mean. I guess it all depends on how you read the web. I happen to “bookmark” everything I read – no matter how infrequently – in my RSS reader, but I can understand how that might be cumbersome for other people.

Guy: Good points. I honestly meant no disrespect in asking what the benefit was. Again, it all comes down to how one reads the web. And I can certainly appreciate that not everyone – in fact the majority of internet users – has adopted RSS feeds as part of their daily web routine.

By: Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:19:54 +0000

Mike,

Our point is that the vast majority of people don’t want to or can’t figure out RSS feeds and feed readers. If someone asked you how they can follow travel news, is it easier to tell them to go to travel.alltop.com or “go get Google Reader, type in ‘travel’ in Google, look at the 100,000,000 sites Google finds, pick the ones you like, look for the little orange RSS icon, click on that, click on XML, and maybe create folders in Google Reader.”

All this said, I will be happy to remove your feed from Alltop because you think there’s no benefit.

Thanks,

Guy

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:27:23 +0000

I, too, love my Google RSS feeds. The benefits of something like Alltop at least for me is that it will list sites that i don’t want to subscribe to, but may have some interesting content everyone and a while.

It also helps that it points out popular sites in the same nitch that I might not be aware of.