Alltop

Want a way to keep up with various blogs and other sites that relate to (Modern) Church? Find it hard to pick and choose from all the results you get on Google? (Though let's not knock Google!)

Try Alltop.com. This site claims to take the 'nuggets' out of search results (presumably leaving the dross behind), and then it banks them up in a wide variety of categories. The one that might interest most readers of this blog would be Modern Church (Church doesn't exist on its own, interestingly enough, which might say something about the readership of sites on modern church, and the readership on sites related to church and church alone?)

But there are dozens of other categories, and more are being added all the time. The site is updated every ten minutes or so, and they have some complex approach to deciding what should go on there. It might be 'a patent-pending, semantic computational algorithm derived from the post-doctoral work of Guy at Stanford' but it's more likely to be the 'results of Google searches, review of the sites’ and blogs’ content, researchers, and our “gut” plus the recommendations of the Twitter community, owners of the sites and blogs, and people who care enough to write to us. Let us declare something: The Twitter community has been the single biggest factor in the quality of Alltop.'

Since Alltop is supposedly run by two guys and a gal in three separate places, their co-ordinating skills are fairly remarkable. The photo is of one of them: Guy Kawasaki.