DISQUS

You might find this site useful for swine-flu coverage:

http://swine-flu.alltop.com/

It includes the Center for Disease Control, New York Times, World Health Organization, NPR, and BBC.

Thanks,

Guy Kawasaki

"But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts." Jacques Derrida

There will be RSS for a person's MyAlltop page shortly. We may even do it for every page.

I think the most important list to be on is this one:

http://retweetist.com/users

Especially now, the number of followers is meaningless. What counts is how many people think what you post is worth retweeting. Mark my words, "Retweeting is the sincerest form of flattery."

My college degree has been very valuable--it taught me how to think and just as important brought me in contact with people who have helped me (and I have helped) to this day. Eg, if I didn't go to Stanford, I would have never me the person who hired me at Apple, and my life would have taken a very different course.

For sure, go to college. Study what you love. You have decades to work for bozos after college.

Guy

Dave,

Holy kaw! You're much too kind. I was just "doing my job"--finding great software to show why people should dump character-based interfaces.

Indeed, one could make that you, Peter, Alice, and the rest of the Living Videotext crew made me!

Guy

Honestly and modestly, this book of mine does exactly this:

http://adjix.com/apug

I interviewed about 130 people to find out their hindsights in life.

Guy Kawasaki

When I click on "here" I get a Java Script page of code.

Is it searching the headlines on the Alltop page, the bodies of the stories on the Alltop page, or the sites/blogs of the Alltop page? I don't understand what it's doing.

Here are two additional tips:

* Build a multi-media CV at Visualcv.com, so that event organizers can see you in action.

* ABS: Always be speaking. The more you speak, the more you get invited to speak, the more you speak. So accept every speaking engagement you can to get out there. Two benefits: you'll get more practice and someone will see you and invite you to speak at something else. Then upward spiral begins.

You can also get some great tips here: http://speaking.alltop.com/.

Guy

Couple of things: Alltop isn't "automated" in the sense that the feeds get added by some kind of technology. We (humans) craft it. We also don't "bookmark." We aggregate. Finally, "live" should be "life."

Thanks for the plug!

Guy

Thanks for posting this. Hope your readers find it helpful. They may also find this site useful: http://venturecapital.alltop.com/.

Thanks,

Guy

Josh,

Thnaks for the kind words. You're the man!

Guy

I don't speak Japanese. What is totemo? A Pokemon? Sumo wrestler?

Guy

Dex,

We couldn't handle your approach because we have too many topics to monitor in the way that you do. Our solution is to let people hide feeds that don't cut it for them by clicking on the "x" next to their names.

To each his own. It's a big pie. We can both have more than enough to eat!

Guy

Thanks for the mention of Alltop. You're in http://pr.alltop.com/ now.

Guy

If I had to guess, I'd say 5 million people have discovered/use RSS and 3 billion don't.

Guy

I wonder what people think of this, then?

http://vips.alltop.com/

Christine,

I try to help solve an issue, and all I get is crap for doing so from the FF totalitarians. :-) Life goes on...

Guy

Guys,

Frienderati.alltop.com is merely a starting point for people to find some folks to follow on Friendfeed. Think of it as our version of Tivo suggestions.

The list is sorted alphabetically by first name. We didn't put it in any kind of subjective order because we didn't need the hassle of one egomaniac wanting to know why another was ahead of him.

We compiled the list by looking at the various blog entries about the most popular people on Friendfeed. That's the algorithm. Nothing more. Sorry to disappoint you.

We display the last five entries in these people's Friendfeeds. We display nothing older than 28 days, so if Scoble stopped blogging, his feed would disappear. If he kicked back in, his feed would reappear.

I suppose you want to know the scientific foundation for 28 days. I don't think it has anything to do with menstruation. The guys at Electric Pulp picked that out of the air. Maybe it's 2x longer than any active blogger should ever be on vacation?

When it comes to stuff that I'm doing, always pick the simplest explanation. Generally speaking, I don't use any algorithms other than gut and alphabetical sorting, and I almost never participate in conspiracies.

Thanks,

Guy

The purpose of Frienderati is to provides examples of people you might want to follow. It's a menu in a restaurant. You pick and orchestrate your own meal.

You can, by the way, hide feeds by clicking on the "x" should you want to return to a customized menu.

Guy

We update the feeds every ten minutes. If there's nothing new, we have nothing to show.

Thanks,

Guy Kawasaki

Thanks for all the comments. One very good rule of thumb for our positioning is this: If you use TechCrunch or Digg, then Alltop is probably not for you.

:-)

Guy

Ed,

Within a few weeks, there will be a search function. Lijit is helping us out.

Thanks!

Guy