One of the things that helped people find weblogs in the very early days was weblogs.com, which was acquired recently by Verisign. All it is really is a ping server. Bloggers would ping it when they posted something new, and it contains a list of the recent posts. When there were only a handful of Bloggers, you could basically keep up with it by keeping up with weblogs.com.
I think Aggregators help too... people subscribe to the blogs they find interesting, and then find more simply through word of mouth, reputation filters, and search engines. There is no one-stop-shop for blogs, though there are popularity indexes... stuff like Blogdex, Daypop, Technorati. I think directories are helpful, but there may be better ways to find something when the data set gets large other than by browsing hierarchical categories in a traditional directory. The directories we're seeing these days are something different as they are organized more with tags and other social elements as opposed to hierarchical categories. -Josh On 12/3/05, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is interesting. > its a list of known blogs circa 2000: > http://www.jjg.net/retired/portal/tpoowl.html > > there's no really directory for text blogs that i know of...did they > not think to do it? > how will we be more successful? > > jay > > > -- > Adventures in Videoblogging > <URL: http://www.momentshowing.net> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/Momentshowing> > <http://getFireAnt.com> > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
