I'm checking out Technorati Blogfinder, a service that tags and categorizes blogs. It’s a handy tool for organizing the blogosphere and helping users discover new content through community-driven metadata and specific topic search.
I tracked the 2005 tagging explosion by compiling this directory of Web 2.0 services. It covers early tools for organizing URLs, RSS feeds, source code, and academic papers before metadata became a standard feature of modern platforms.
I share Feedster's monthly list of the top 500 most influential blogs, a curated resource for discovering new voices, trending topics, and popular RSS feeds across the evolving blogosphere.
I automate my daily reading by matching del.icio.us tags from URLs I've blogged about against trending bookmarks. I score sites based on tag frequency and rank the top five, though I need better APIs to scale.
I'm sharing The Guardian's 2002 list of favorite blogs, which features Satish’s Random Thoughts. It provides a unique snapshot of the early blogosphere and the personal sites that first caught the attention of mainstream media outlets.
I look at the symbiotic link between Google and blogs, including tactics like Googlebombing. I found my own archives ranking for "imdbpro password" purely because I was one of the only people to mention those specific terms together.