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title: Blogdex
date: "2001-08-06T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1719
description: I checked out MIT's Blogdex, which crawls weblogs to find trending links and provide current information. I also shared resources for finding active weblogs and a detailed essay on the history of the medium.
keywords: [blogdex, mit media lab, weblogs, link analysis, rebecca blood, internet history]
---

MIT's [Blogdex](http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/) crawls weblogs (like mine) for popular links. Nice concept -- somewhat like Google's, except more "current information" based. The [page of only weblogs](http://www.jjg.net/portal/tpoowl.html) has a good list of weblogs (not as comprehensive as [Eatonweb](http://portal.eatonweb.com/)), and Rebecca's written a good [history of weblogs](http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html).