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'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 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 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.