The blogosphere has more that 40 million blogs already and this number continues to grow at an exponential rate.
So how do you pick n' choose blogs quickly that track your favorite subjects like Fashion, Hollywood, Automobiles, Quantum Physics or even Food recipes ? Let's look at some good blog finding services here:
Technorati Blog Finder - To find a blog about your favorite thing, just search for it on the Technorati Blog Finder page. If a blog has been around for sometime, chances are that it is indexed by Technorati, the grandpa of blog search engines. [help here]
Sphere Featured Blogs - Sphere is a new blog search engine that is relatively free of spam blogs. You can search for any topic on Sphere and then choose the Featured Blogs link on the right sidebar. Sphere shows a list of the best blogs associated with that topic. I like their results. [blog here]
Ask.com Blog Search - Ask.com just yesterday released their Blog & Feed search engine which is also integrated with Bloglines, the most widely used web-based RSS reader. When you make a search on Ask, it displays a list of Top Feeds related to your query. You can pick and subscribe to the ones you like. The results are generally very appropriate. [ask blog]
FeedAdvisor is a blog finding service from FeedBlitz which lead the RSS-to-Email market segment. Since FeedAdvisor is limited to blogs and sites that use the FeedBlitz email update program, it doesn't cover too many blogs but FeedAdvisor delivers quality results completely free from spam.
Here's a sample search for Blogs that are about Microsoft. Clearly, the results are incomplete as there's no Scoble in the list but since you get an idea of how many subscribers a blog has, it immediately brings that level of trust.
FeedAdvisor related feeds shows matching blogs that tend to cover similar issues. The results are fairly good. See FeedAdvisor results for Digital Inspiration.
So how do you pick n' choose blogs quickly that track your favorite subjects like Fashion, Hollywood, Automobiles, Quantum Physics or even Food recipes ? Let's look at some good blog finding services here:
Technorati Blog Finder - To find a blog about your favorite thing, just search for it on the Technorati Blog Finder page. If a blog has been around for sometime, chances are that it is indexed by Technorati, the grandpa of blog search engines. [help here]
Sphere Featured Blogs - Sphere is a new blog search engine that is relatively free of spam blogs. You can search for any topic on Sphere and then choose the Featured Blogs link on the right sidebar. Sphere shows a list of the best blogs associated with that topic. I like their results. [blog here]
Ask.com Blog Search - Ask.com just yesterday released their Blog & Feed search engine which is also integrated with Bloglines, the most widely used web-based RSS reader. When you make a search on Ask, it displays a list of Top Feeds related to your query. You can pick and subscribe to the ones you like. The results are generally very appropriate. [ask blog]
FeedAdvisor is a blog finding service from FeedBlitz which lead the RSS-to-Email market segment. Since FeedAdvisor is limited to blogs and sites that use the FeedBlitz email update program, it doesn't cover too many blogs but FeedAdvisor delivers quality results completely free from spam.
Here's a sample search for Blogs that are about Microsoft. Clearly, the results are incomplete as there's no Scoble in the list but since you get an idea of how many subscribers a blog has, it immediately brings that level of trust.
FeedAdvisor related feeds shows matching blogs that tend to cover similar issues. The results are fairly good. See FeedAdvisor results for Digital Inspiration.
