rssHugger Launches
For quite some time, the sentiments expressed throughout the blogosphere regarding Technorati have been less than picture perfect. Bloggers are unhappy with a number of things going on with the popular site, and one of those things is the spam.
rssHugger is apparently the answer, according to guys like John Chow. We’ll get to why in a moment.
What does the rssHugger service provide?
For the $20 that you pay - it’s $10 if you write a post about the service first (that’s not why I’m writing this, by the way) - you basically get a listing in a web directory for RSS feeds. Feeds are ranked and promoted in a variety of ways, and the goal is to send more readers in the direction of rssHugger’s members.
The service makes use of a Top 100 list, though these are only good for ranking stuff and supporting existing hegemonies rather than giving newbies or unknown bloggers using the service half a chance.
To make up for this, there is a Random Blog feature that takes you to the contents of a completely randomly chosen feed, and a New RSS Feeds page.
How is rssHugger supposed to replace Technorati?
The main complaint bloggers make about Technorati is the amount of spam and splogging going on there. rssHugger hopes to avoid this problem by charging a $20 fee that will allow them to manually review each blog that is submitted, as well as deter the cheap n’ dirty spammers from applying in the first place.
If it beats spam, my best wishes for the success of their endeavor.
PS - for those who have been asking, I am still using Dvorak on the laptop and getting faster - if improvements continue at this pace I will switch the Mac mini’s keyboard too.
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December 21st, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Nice review. I’m using rssHugger too.