I often have interesting conversations with my friends who know very little about the web. Last night as we were watching “Survivor,” I said something about my weblog. Wendy said, “So how do you find other people’s weblogs?”
Good question.
The traditional answer is, well, you follow links from one to the other. There are some small, limited-scope weblog directories, but none even approaching the scope of something like Yahoo or Amazon. After all, if you want to find web sites in a certain topic area, you go to Yahoo (or something like it); if you want to find books, you go to Amazon (or something like it). Wendy’s question made me more sure than ever that with the world of weblogs exploding like it is, a wide-scope comprehensive weblog directory would be a good project. No, it wouldn’t cover everything – but neither does Yahoo. I would love to go somewhere on the web to search a giant database of as many weblogs as possible, by all kinds of criteria. Thoughts?
Blogstart.com is pretty good. Unfortunately the page seems to be down at the moment 🙁 You might want to check them out later on.
i find blogdex interesting, although it’s not a directory. but how would you classify blogs? some, maybe, have a focus, but something like mine, for example?
BTW, these pop-up comments rule, Adam.
Miguel would fall under:
Weblogs; Personal; Austrian; Foot-Fetish
http://portal.eatonweb.com/
Miguel, I think there could be categories, but it wouldn’t be the primary way to find a weblog – so maybe Yahoo was a bad example. Authors could enter their own keywords, and you could also search for anything else in the database. So maybe IMDB is a better model.
kd, I’d like to take what eatonweb did and extend it greatly, in terms of information available. Comments, more searching, reviews, etc. Like a cross between IMDB and Amazon book listings.
I think you’d need categories like, “Lots of links,” “Chatty personal details,” “Conservative commentary,” “Liberal commentary,” “Gaming geek,” things like that.
i like this one:
http://www.daypop.com/