The PutPlace Blog

Here at PutPlace, we were looking for ways to keep an eye on the technology blogger zeitgeist. Obviously there’s Digg, Hacker News and the like, but we wanted to gather a big aggregated feed of the top tech bloggers.

Fortunately, Henry from TechCrunch assembled a big list of the top 100 tech bloggers. We spent a few hours going through that list and gathering as many FriendFeed subscriptions and RSS feeds based on the list. Generally, if we found a FriendFeed, uh, feed for somebody, we assumed that would cover the blogs they wrote and so forth.

We assembled them into three OPML files:

• Only FriendFeed feeds
• Just tech blog feeds
• The whole shebang–all of the feeds in one OPML file

Why are there not 100 feeds in the third file? Because a lot of the FriendFeeds replicate a lot of the top blog feeds, and we saw no point in including them twice.

We’re not exactly sure what to do with all this data–any suggestions? Maybe a big river of news somewhere that interested readers can, you know, swim in?

While working on this little project, we discovered two other sources of similar data:

• Techmeme’s firehose feed
• Alltop’s Frienderati page