I checked out MIT's Blogdex, which crawls weblogs to find trending links and provide current information. I also shared resources for finding active weblogs and a detailed essay on the history of the medium.
MIT’s Blogdex crawls weblogs (like mine) for popular links. Nice concept – somewhat like Google’s, except more “current information” based. The page of only weblogs has a good list of weblogs (not as comprehensive as Eatonweb), and Rebecca’s written a good history of weblogs.
After reading about the psychology of weblogs, I realized I had actually run out of things to say nearly a year ago. This reflects the common experience of creative exhaustion and self-reflection within the early blogging community.
I'm exploring Wiki Weblogs to transition my manual blog into a system organized by both dates and keywords. I want to combine chronological posting with the associative, non-linear structure of a wiki for better information organization.
I explain what weblogs are, categorizing them as discussions, narratives, or moderated sites. I share my favorite sources like Scripting News and SlashDot while noting Blogger's growing popularity for personal online journals in 2000.
I found another meta blog by Wacky Brit and noticed how quickly the concept of blog aggregation is spreading. It highlights the early evolution of tools like Blogdex in the MIT Media Lab's research ecosystem.
I explored Blogback as a remote commenting tool for weblogs but decided against going the full weblog route, leading me to speculate on what the next "new new thing" in technology might be.