I'm checking out Blogshares, a fantasy stock market for blogs where users trade with $500 of notional currency. It creates an artificial economy by allowing participants to buy and sell stakes in their favorite weblogs.
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 highlight prediction markets like Hollywood Stock Exchange, Innovation Futures, and Blogshares. These platforms leverage the wisdom of crowds to generate remarkably accurate forecasts across entertainment, technology, and blogging domains.
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.
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 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.