If you want to find a great selection of sites in any given niche, alltop is a great place to start. BTW there are over 20 b5 blogs listed there (more than anyother single network) and there are also b5-ers on the Twitterati (Colleen Coplick) and Frienderati (me).

One draw back of Alltop is that is doesn't have a combined feed for each niche, but you can visit the sites and get them.

Have a great week.

Tris

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Alltop, all the top stories

Another great post from Chris Brogan. This is an index post of sorts with all his blogging tips. Which, btw, is a great thing to do as a post when you're on vacation and advance posting.

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Ten Secrets to Better Blogging | chrisbrogan.com

• There’s lots of information and advice hidden in the archives of this site, and I admit that it’s not especially easy to find it all. To that end, I’m going to put up a series of posts from time to time where I’ll give you links to 10 of my posts about a topic that might be of use to you. Today’s topic: blogging. Let me know if this is helpful. In reading through these posts a bit, it’s funny how I sometimes echo themes, repeat advice, etc. But I believe repetition is a good teacher. Plus, I’m forgetful. It’s a perfect mix.

Don't misread this to say that linking isn't important anymore, because this isn't what Louis is saying at all. His point is that back in the day one link from Scoble or similar was like getting a link from Digg today. The power wielded was tremendous. So linking to other blogs might not be the traffic boost it once was, but from an information connector standpoint it is just as, if not more, important as ever.

Tris

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louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining

• I am a strong believer in the power of linking between blogs, and I still go out of my way to link, especially to peers, to smaller blogs, and to developers of services I write about. At one time, I thought being linked to by the most prominent bloggers could have a significant impact on my traffic. And for a short time, it did. But now, I've seen traffic from other blogs to be driving an ever-declining percentage of visits to my site, swamped by social media tools, aggregation sites, and of course, Google search.

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See my bookmarks at http://www.diigo.com/user/trishussey

See my profile at http://www.diigo.com/profile/trishussey

This is a fun one (we need them once and a while)...enjoy.

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Send Messages That Self-Destruct With Privnote - ReadWriteWeb

Yes, Blog This in WLW will work in FF3.0, you just have to do some editing. Now. It didn't appear to work for me at first, but did after a restart. Tris

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Blog This for Firefox 3.0 Beta « whateverblog.

Chris Brogan, fellow Boston boy, has posted his blogging workflow for all to read. I've given you my workflow (as scattered a it might be) and Darren has shared his, not you have Chris'. The take-away from all of these is that you have to find what works for you.

If you're surfing from say work (tsk, tsk ;-) ) you might want to set up a private Diigo set to bookmark things for later. Why Diigo? I like their options better like this handy little emailing tool.

Try stuff. See what works for you and go on from there.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Tris

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A Sample Blogging Workflow | chrisbrogan.com

Tim Ferriss post by Shel.

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Global Neighbourhoods: 4 Hours with Tim Ferriss

Dunno ... multi-coloured Sangria seems so, so wrong. But ...

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Red Sangria | White Sangria | Sangria Recipe

Okay so I didn't really want to send a lot of emails, but I started to play with toluu when it launched a while ago. It is a way to share and find feeds to subscribe to. The recommendation engine is pretty interesting. I do more sharing than finding there, but I think that will change with these improvements.

I think toluu is still invite only and I do have invites to share. Tris

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Toluu Blog

• We have just launched a re-aligned ‘Match’ page with a cleaner UI and greater functionality. We have also made updates to ‘Contacts’ and feed ‘Subscribers’.
  We recently made major changes to the architecture of matching to make it load dramatically faster. Today we have made design and functionality improvements. The new design is simpler and cleaner which should make it easier to hone in on the people and feeds that matter to you. 
  We have also introduced 3 filtering options. Now you can see your matches based on when they joined Toluu. Filtering by ‘This Month’ or ‘This Week’ shows only users who have joined in that period who match with you, surfacing fresh feeds and people. This makes matches more useful for users with many feeds or those who have been with us since the beginning.

One of the issues we face is info overload. Frankly, our brains just haven't caught up with the amount of data that we're trying to grok. Noiseriver (I've been playing with it this morning), helps to focus FriendFeed.

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louisgray.com: New NoiseRiver App Adds Interest Filters to FriendFeed Stream

• As FriendFeed has grown its user base, the number of people to follow and items they add to their personal streams is increasing. Some are finding the resulting noise to be too much in its native form. While I've aggressively approached this issue by using the "Hide" function, others are looking to new services to take the next step, highlighting, in advance, those items that are most likely to draw your attention. NoiseRiver, a new service released yesterday, updates your stream based on instructions you give, including your liked and hated keywords and individuals, helping draw your eye to the best stuff fast.