Site seeing: Easy access to travel blogs

Published 4:11 pm Friday, November 7, 2008

Travel blogs in one bag: It can be a chore to stay on top of all the travel blogs out there. Even if you’re Web-savvy enough to customize an aggregator or load up your Google RSS feeder, do you remember to look at it? They are easy to forget, posts back up and news gets old. Travel.Alltop.com is here with its big green cape to save you.

What’s hot: This is the ultimate experience in news scan-ability. Travel.Alltop lists 133 of the best travel blogs and includes headlines for each of the blogs’ five most recent posts all on one page. Just scroll down the page and read the latest from Rick Steves’ blog, as well as Travel+Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler’s the Perrin Post, the Cranky Flier, and FareCompare’s Rick Seaney. Don’t stop at the travel category. If you are taking a trip, Alltop might have a page devoted to the region you are visiting.

What’s not: I’m still hoping there are plans for a “My Alltop” function through which I can customize a page. If I could combine a travel page with select Geo pages, plus my favorite topics from the Living, Culture and Tech pages, I’d be happy. If you are trying to use Alltop instead of your RSS feeder and see one of your favorite blogs missing, just let Alltop know. The site is open to considering additions.

Jen Leo, special to the Los Angeles Times