Power 150 Gets Extreme Feed Makeover

February 4, 2007

As most of you know, a few weeks back I launched the Power 150, a ranking of top marketing blogs in America. The list was widely discussed and appreciated by fellow marketing bloggers; however, it was only a static link library for people to bookmark and browse.

Starting today, the Power 150 is a living, breathing list and a much more resourceful tool. You can search and subscribe by keyword, browse the combined ‘River of News’ feed, or openly explore feed-to-feed. The “subscribe to your search” feature is ultra-slick in that you can grab the RSS URL for your custom search and instantly see when your keyword is mentioned by blogs in the Power 150.

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The official ranking can now be found at either toddand.com/power150 or power150.com. Icon navigation has been added to the ranking header (as pictured above - click on the kitchen sink icon). If you prefer not to navigate the icons and just go straight to the living version, everything but the kitchen sink can be found directly at toddand.com/power150/kitchensink.

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The life given to the Power 150 is all thanks to RSS expert Marjolein Hoekstra, author of CleverClogs, who contacted me two weeks ago to help add more functionality to the list. Via Skype and email (and between seven time zones), Marjolein and I mapped out the Power 150 remix with several valued contributions from Grazr Head Developer Mike Kowalchik and mySyndicaat CEO Giovanni Guardalben. For an inside perspective on the tech-side of the new Power 150 functionality, read Marjolein’s post at CleverClogs.

If you want to give your page the Grazr Power widget, just click here or on the Grazr icon at the bottom right hand corner of the kitchen sink.

My career in marketing and PR is very rewarding in that I help companies and individuals grow and connect. This Power 150 experience has been equally rewarding as oddles of bloggers have emailed me saying how thrilled they are to discover so many new marketing-related reads.

Again, special thanks to my new friend Marjolein at CleverClogs for making the kitchen sink (perhaps Power 2.0) a reality.

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8 Responses to “Power 150 Gets Extreme Feed Makeover”

  1. Patrick Schaber on February 4th, 2007 10:13 am

    Todd - thanks for doing this! What a great resource to keep up on related blogs. Great work!

  2. Grazr Blog » Blog Archive » Todd And’s Power150 RSS feed application by Marjolein on February 5th, 2007 9:59 am

    [...] Here is Marjolein’s post about the application, as well as Todd And’s post. I think it turned out really great! [...]

  3. Open The Dialogue on February 5th, 2007 4:03 pm

    LOTD: 2/5/07…

    I’m completely in denial over the fact that Rex Grossman appeared to have suffered a sharp blow to the head right before yesterday’s game. Did his teammates wear Colts jerseys during practice? I more or less agree that the editing……

  4. Chip Griffin: Pardon the Disruption on February 7th, 2007 7:32 am

    Reading from a Marketing Fire Hose…

    A few weeks ago Todd And released the Power 150 — 150 top marketing blogs, as determined by a formula that combined several measures, including Google PageRank, Technorati Links, Bloglines subscribers, and Todd And’s own subjective rating. I didn’t …

  5. Kim Mickelsen on February 10th, 2007 2:40 am

    Todd,
    This is an awesome addition. And a terrific resource. Thanks so much for all the hard work!

    Kim

  6. links for 2007-02-08 at Bryper.com on February 10th, 2007 7:04 am

    [...] Todd And - The Power To Connect Todd Andrlik gives his “Power 150″ list of top U.S. marketing blogs an “extreme feed makeover.” Create customized RSS feeds based on keyword search terms of the blogs, or setup a “River of News” feed. (tags: ToddAnd’sPower150 marketing blogs blogging) [...]

  7. Todd Ebert on February 11th, 2007 9:52 pm

    Todd, I love your Power 150! I was doing some research for my own marketing blog (I’m a total newbie to blogging) and I came upon your site. It is great to find such a definitive list of marketing insight and thought leadership. I’ve sent it on to my friends and colleagues. Keep up the great work.

    Todd Ebert
    P.S. would I ever run into you at Chicago area marketing association meetings?

  8. Todd And - The Power To Connect on July 23rd, 2007 5:02 pm

    [...] Marjolein donated her time and expertise to help develop the “Kitchen Sink” feature, which added tremendous functionality to the Power 150 - including a “river of news” combined feed and a search-and-subscribe function (read more). Mark saved me hours upon hours by generously donating hours and hours in order to write code and automate the Power 150. Thanks to Mark’s automation, the Power 150 went global (read more). Also thanks to Henri van der Hoof for the custom Power 150-Google Toolbar Button that he created. [...]

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