Alltop: A Music News Dashboard
If you're like most musicians, you've probably subscribed to several music feeds via RSS to keep your finger on the pulse of the music industry. About two weeks ago, I learned of Alltop, a free "digital magazine rack" that aggregates music stories, among other types of news topics from leading sites and blogs into an easy-to-scan page, displaying the five most recent music headlines from each content provider (e.g. Paste Magazine). You can then place your cursor over any headline and part of the story will be displayed, allowing you to quickly decide if you want to continue reading it.
What's interesting about that, you ask.... A great deal actually, as Alltop becomes an eloquent, content-specific, "table of contents" on today's music news, updated every 10 minutes. More importantly, it's a great tool for discovering new feeds, part of the company's mission - "the cessation of Internet stagnation.” Here are just a few sites I discovered for the first time by going to music.alltop.com:
