Head over to alltop.com, enter the word "Law" into the search box, and a page will open on your browser listing the five most recent topics of 180 law magazines, journals and blogs from around the world. Move the cursor over the topics and a live window opens with the first 150 words of the article. Click on the link and you go straight to the source for the full text of the article you wish to see. You'll see content from all the usual sources, but you might also stumble on more unusual sites, such as Blackprof.com, Tax Girl or the Biker and Motorcyle Lawyer Blog.

Or if law is the last thing you want to read about, do an alphabetical search for your favourite topic: Atheism? Beer? Cricket? Each page shows an astonishing aggregation of the most up-to-date news and commentary. You see just the nuggets, not the 850,000 hits that a Google search would deliver you.

The Alltop home page describes itself as "an online magazine rack." Since its launch last March, Alltop has been adding new categories almost every day. As of this writing, the current count is 387 topics on such diverse areas as Vegan, Nintendo and Inspiration. The site uses RSS feeds from the different content providers to update its aggregate pages, so the articles are the most current each site has to offer.

And for Twitter followers, Alltop.com issues tweets every time new topics are added. As well, marketing evangelist, Guy Kawasaki posts a steady stream of tweets with links to random and off-the-wall articles off the Alltop news feeds.

A small caution, however. This site is highly addictive and could be harmful to your billable hours.

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