Earlier this week, I had an email from my friend Joe, pointing to an article he had written about a service Guy Kawasaki is involved with. Alltop is a location where sites of all kinds are categorized and then aggregated so that each section becomes a jumping point for the reader to dive deeper into the sites and subjects mentioned; a virtual magazine rack, if you will.
I was immediately intrigued, and went to take a look…
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, Muslim, celebrity gossip, military, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, we display the headlines of the latest stories from dozens of sites and blogs.
You can think of an Alltop site as 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 other words, our goal is the “cessation of Internet stagnation” by providing “aggregation without aggravation.”
Of course, the first thing I did was look at the Gadgets section, which is full of great sites that everyone who visits Gear Diary is probably already very familiar with…
Needless to say, I wrote Joe back and wistfully said “I would love to get on that feed.” Not content to let me pine, Joe fired off an email recommending Gear Diary to none other than Guy Kawasaki himself!
Joe tells it best:
I featured his new “Digital magazine rack” at alltop.com at 10:01 a.m. today and emailed him to let him know, also suggesting he consider adding bookofjoe to the “Gadgets” section (it seemed the best fit of the available categories).
In a few minutes he emailed me back, writing “Thanks for the mention, and we agree about adding your site.”
He added, “We’re always open to adding more high-quality feeds too. Please let me know your thoughts.”
OK, then — Judie Lipsett’s Geardiary immediately sprang to mind so I sent him a link to her site.
And lo and behold, what do I see over in Alltop’s Gadgets feeds (scroll down to the bottom) just a few minutes ago but the latest additions — Bookofjoe and Geardiary (top).
Like I said, Guy doesn’t mess around.
We were near instantly added, and now…this is what you see when you visit Alltop Gadgets:
Okay, so we are at the bottom of the Gadgets’ page, but we are surrounded by greatness; I would be lying if I didn’t say that our inclusion is a huge honor, and I bet that we will start rising upward soon enough. 
I was already enjoying the web interface, but Wayne pointed out that Alltop looks (and works) great on the iPhone as well…
…and a snap of Engadget‘s feed…
It it simply impossible to think that any one site could possibly cover all the news and reviews on every topic; having so many good sites aggregated into one starting point is handy, efficient, and since we are included…pretty darn awesome! Check out Alltop, and see if you don’t discover some sites that you didn’t know existed, mixed in with the ones you already enjoy. 
Link: Book of Joe – Alltop.com – ‘Digital Magazine Rack’
Link: Book of Joe – Guy Kawasaki Doesn’t Mess Around
Update: Joe just sent me an email pointing out that both of us have substantially risen on the Alltop charts. No longer relagated to the lower depths of Siberia, we are now firmly entrnched in the middle-lands of awesomeness. :happy sigh:
