wikipedia on blogs

blog lists

• The Blogosphere Power Rankings -- The Most Popular Political Blogs On The Net (by rightwingnews.com)
• Blog resources: http://www.blogroots.com/resources.blog
• BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs and a portal into the world of blogs.

blog search engines

• NEW! Name: 2RSS
  URL: http://www.2rss.com/
  Description:RSS Feed Directory
  Add your blog here: On front page
  Note: Requires RSS Feed
• Name: Bligz
  URL: http://www.blizg.com/
  Description:Focus on "Metadata"
  Add your blog here: On front page
  Note: Two step-process where you have to "Ping" site once listed
• Name: Blogarama
  URL: http://www.blogarama.com/
  Description:Small search engine
  Add your blog here: http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
• Name: Blogdex
  URL: http://www.blogdex.net/
  Description: Hot topics listing and search engine - a research project of the MIT Media Laboratory tracking the diffusion of information through the weblog community.
  Add your blog here: http://blogdex.net/add.asp
  Note: Requires email confirmation
• Name: Blogdigger
  URL: http://www.blogdigger.com/
  Description: Small search engine - Supports returning results in xml
  Add your blog here: http://www.blogdigger.com/addFeedForm.jsp
  Note: Need RSS feed
• Name: Bloghop
  URL: http://www.bloghop.com/search.htm
  Description: Small search engine
  Add your blog here: http://www.bloghop.com/addblog.htm
• Name: Bloglines
  URL: http://www.bloglines.com/
  Description: Search and aggregate RSS feeds
  Add your blog here: No submission process, users add feeds they wish to track
• Name: Blogmatrix
  URL: http://www.blogmatrix.com/
  Description: Blog tool provider, offers search as well
  Add your blog here: http://www.blogmatrix.com/join
• Name: Blogrunner
  URL: http://www.blogrunner.com/
  Description: Hot topics listing and search engine
  Add your blog here: http://www.blogrunner.com/docs/partners-register.html
  Note: Some sore of revenue share program going on
• Name: Blogsearchengine
  URL: http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
  Description: Blog search engine
  Add your blog here: http://www.blogsearchengine.com/add_link.html
• Name: Blogstreet
  URL: http://www.blogstreet.com/search.html
  Description: Metasearch
  Add your blog here: http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/add.cgi
• Name: Blogvision
  URL: http://www.blogvision.com/
  Description: Small search engine
  Add your blog here: Doesn't appear to be any way to add a site
• Name: Blogwise
  URL: http://www.blogwise.com/
  Description: Categorized Blog search
  Add your blog here: http://www.blogwise.com/submit
• Name: Bloogz
  URL: http://www.bloogz.com/
  Description: Blog search engine
  Add your blog here: http://www.bloogz.com/man_en/add_your_url.php
• NEW! Name: Boogieplay
  URL: http://www.boogieplay.com/
  Description: Blog search engine in "Newspaper" format.
  Add your blog here: Doesn't appear to be any way to add a blog.
• Name: Daypop
  URL: http://www.daypop.com/
  Description: News oriented search - Search 59000 News Sites, Weblogs and RSS feeds for Current Trash.Events and Breaking News; Supports returning results in xml
  Add your blog here: http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm
  Note: Requires your site to be "frequently updated"
• Name: Eatonweb
  URL: http://portal.eatonweb.com/
  Description: Blog search engine
  Add your blog here: http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
• Name: Fastbuzz
  URL: http://www.fastbuzz.com/
  Description: Search and aggregate RSS feeds
  Add your blog here: http://www.fastbuzz.com/channels/insert_public.jsp
• Name: Feedster
  URL: http://www.feedster.com/
  Description: Blog search engine using RSS feeds
  Add your blog here: http://www.feedster.com/add.php
  Note: Need RSS feed, Supports returning results in xml
• Name: Get Linked
  URL: http://fried-spaghetti.com/links/
  Description: Small search engine
  Add your blog here: http://fried-spaghetti.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
• Name: Globeofblogs
  URL: http://www.globeofblogs.com/
  Description: Blog search engine
  Add your blog here: Click "Register" in upper-right corner of front page
  Note: Strange site, requires extensive classification of blogs
• Name: LocalFeeds.com/GeoURL
  URL: http://www.localfeeds.com/ , http://www.geourl.org/
  Description: Blogs and headlines by geographic region. GeoURL is by lat/longitude while LocalFeeds is by ZIP or country.
  Add your blog here: http://www.geourl.org/add.html (for both)
  Note: Complex instructions, you must edit your blog's meta tags prior to submission.
• NEW! Name: Memigo
  URL: http://www.memigo.com/
  Description: Customized news portal
  Add your blog here: http://www.memigo.com/feed
• Name: NewsIsFree
  URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/
  Description: Search for RSS feeds
  Add your blog here: http://www.newsisfree.com/contact.php
• Name: Pepys
  URL: http://pepys.akacooties.com/
  Description: Geographically categorized blogs
  Add your blog here: http://pepys.akacooties.com/cgi-bin/links2/add.cgi
• Name: Popdex
  URL: http://www.popdex.com/
  Description: Hot topics listing and search engine
  Add your blog here: http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
  Note: "Fast Track" if you link to Popdex
• Name: PubSub
  URL: http://www.pubsub.com/
  Description: The service monitors over one million weblogs and information streams to find the content you're looking for, in real time. API etc supported NOTE: http://www.pubsub.com/elections/ (!)
• Name: RDF Ticker
  URL: http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/findchannels.php
  Description: Search and aggregate RSS feeds
  Add your blog here: http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
• NEW! Name: Rootblog
  URL: http://www.rootblog.com/
  Description: RSS Aggregator
  Add your blog here: http://http://www.rootblog.com/Ping/
  Note: Can also be pinged automatically with every post.
• NEW! Name: Search4Blogs?
  URL: http://www.search4blogs.com/
  Description: Blog Directory
  Add your blog here: WIthin each category
  Note: A lot of adult blogs.
• Name: Sindic8
  URL: http://www.syndic8.com/
  Description: Search and aggregate RSS feeds
  Add your blog here: http://www.syndic8.com/suggest.php?Mode=data
  Note: Need RSS feed
• Name: Technorati
  URL: http://www.technorati.com/
  Description: Index of links between millions of blogs - provides search and notification services for active content on the World Live Webtm. We monitor over 1.8 million sources (weblogs, RSS) with over 10,000 new sources added each day, all with a median index update time of under 9 minutes.
  Add your blog here: http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
  Note: Programmatic interface available as well.
• NEW! Name: Waypath
  URL: http://www.waypath.com/
  Description: Keyword searches and "find similar" searches - incl. buzzmaker
  Add your blog here: Automatically adds blogs through a spidering process.
• NEW! Name: Zopto
  URL: http://www.zopto.com/
  Description: Index of links between millions of blogs
  Add your blog here: No submission process, Zopto indexes all pings to blo.gs into a search engine.

Questions to be asked of these search engines include:

• do they look at the content or only at the rss-feed
• what kind of metric do they use to rank the blogs
• ...

site statistics for weblogs and tracking tools

• http://www.alexa.com/data/ds/linksin?q=link: - Alexa (Amazon)
• http://www.allconsuming.net/weblog.cgi?url= - It has information gleaned from Alexa.com, Google.com, and Amazon.com.
• http://blogdex.net/track.asp?url= - Blogdex: incoming links to weblog homepage
  check most popular pages or outbound links.
• http://www.truthlaidbear.com/showdetails.php?host= - Inbound links by The Blogosphere Ecosystem (Truth Laid Bear). As I understand this is a kind of parallel effort to Blogging Ecosystem by Myelin which includes both Inbound and outbound links.
• Blogrolling
• BlogShares - incoming and outbound links next to all kinds of "financial" information. Some explanations of how it works.
• Citations at DayPop. Also includes: Daypop Blogstats (related and similar weblogs), word bursts and other interesting things across blogosphere
• Citations at Popdex
• Inbound links by Technorati (tracks inbound links only from homepages of other weblogs).
• http://www.google.com/search?q=link:
• http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q= by AllTheWeb, might be better than Google because Google only searches pages above a certain PageRank excluding smaller sites.
• http://www.blogmatrix.com/bloginfo?url= - Inbound links by BlogMatrix (and a bit more). Provides RSS generation, promises threading conversations between blogs and has few other interesting things that I don't have time to dig out.
• http://organica.us/ - Inbound and outbound links by Organica
• Blogstreet stats Includes: http://www.blogstreet.com/blogsqlbin/getBack.pl?url= who is blogrolling the site, http://www.blogstreet.com/blogsqlbin/neighborhood.pl?url= weblog Neighborhood (also visualised), http://www.blogstreet.com/blogsqlbin/getRSS.pl?url= RSS feed and more. Explanations of how it works. They are testing new service: RSS generator. It says "You can also use the RSS Generator to generate feeds containing only excerpts of posts for those blogs which put their entire posts in their feeds", but I wasn't able to find this functionality.