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A couple days ago I mentioned Ryo and his pet hermit crab: BlogMatcher. It appears that the crab has moved into a roomier conk shell, as Ryo stated:

I completely rewrote the searching/matching code in C (instead of PHP), and results pop up in less than a second now (in fact, often < 0.5 seconds). I've also added pagination for easier navigation.

I've refined the search algorithm a bit, partially inspired by your comments. I added some very basic statistical analysis in the scoring algorithm so that common URLs are scored down while uncommon URLs are marked up (at least in theory). It's still a little skewered for your blog, but I think the results have been improved somewhat. Also, the index has grown to 2900+ blogs (and I'm sure it'll continue to grow).

I gave it another whirl and was impressed with the results — best of all there was no bitter aftertaste: Pure, Clean & Fresh.

Ryo was good enough to put enough an FAQ for your reading pleasure as well. The only major change that I would like to see added, is some sort of static page, to where people can click and automatically see the search results (as opposed to typing it in everytime).

In addition to BlogMatcher scanning Weblogs.com, no less than three other services do as well: Organica, Metaweblog and Penthouse (notice how everything semi-important with me always degenerates into something to do with sex).

RSS Search - as the same suggests, it is a search engine that scours RSS feeds. Now just like Feedster, typing in my name reveals that Tim Robbins is the Big Man on Campus. Again, he’s a great actor, but in the blogosphere he best step down. Submit your blog here and hope for the best.

While looking for some dirt on the Opteron, I stumbled upon this article at ExtremeTech discussing the research and development projects over at Microsoft. Yes, despite my disdain for their business model they still work on some neat-o projects. One that I was particularly interested in was the StuffI’veSeen project. This software basically tracks and tags every bit of digital information you bump into throughout the day — I’d like to see this installed on John Poindexter’s computer.

Be sure to also visit Microsoft’s Research Project page, the Terraserver is the same one I used to come up with my GeoURL.

HTML Tidy - This handy piece of software fixes those annoying incompliant markup schemes that people like myself create. In addition to the downloadable open-source version of the application, you can also use this browser-based online copy.

I’ll end this with a remembrance for Sebastian, the pet hermit crab my younger sister gave me 7 years ago and I forgot to feed… Let us never mention his name again:

I found 3 more blog rings for your betterment (or embetterment [sic] or embezzlement)

Skinned Blog Ring - This is for blog owners that have the uber 1337 skinning ability. Notice I do not fit into that illustrious category, yet.

Oklahoma Sunrise Blogging Ring - if you blog and live in the land of OK’ians, then join. Side note: Oklahoma has some really nice parks & camp sites, if you live in the Southwest area, be sure to visit Beavers Bend, Lake Murray and/or Turner Falls.

Tampa Bay Bloggers Ring - I’m not sure why anyone would want to be around Bucs, but for those poor souls living and blogging out in the Other Other Bay area (not Cisco or Green), sign-up.

Tampatantrum is apparently one of those ‘In’ places to visit online. I’m not sure if anyone is familiar with what a Sooner looks and acts like in public, but good golly, miss molly… they ain’t a pretty sight. Of course, as an Aggie I do enjoy their decimation of t.u.

In addition, Sooners bleed two (2) colors (Crimson & Cream). Aggies only bleed one (1), Maroon, and we’re at the top of the pack (creme de la creme). Imagine if Aggies bled two colors, the world and baby Jesus would cry.

I must say however, despite the various inferiorities Sooners are known to have, one of them is not Boobies, and furthermore I believe Ms. Robyn promotes a worthy cause that both men and women can partake in.

Lastly, I’ll leave you with this poignant two-part comic I found here:

Yes, I do have a “plan” to move all of the information I’ve been collating to another blog (more on that in a few days), until then though, you’ll have to make do (or due or dew).

All Things Blog - is a webring for bloggers from all over the world. It doesn’t matter what your blog is about, where you are from, what age, sex, race, religion you are. We are open to all. This is probably the 27th one of these I’ve found.

Argentinian Weblogs - la comunidad de weblogs argentinos. For all my Argentinian readers, check it out, they also provide a translation for the installation guide for MovableType.

PhillyBlog - for those bloggers living in the Philadelphia area.

Random Acts of Journaling - it’s not strictly for blogs, but inclusive with journals. Members of Random Acts of Journaling have a set of prompts to work on each month. The prompts will be photos, digital art, quotes, lyrics, passages from books, maybe an entry from another journaler or a directed question or two. Here are a bunch of collab projects at Fractured Atlas.

No Wil Wheaton Ring - Have you ever wondered why Wil’s blog is so popular? Me too. Someone once said he got 99 comments for taking a bite of a sandwich. It’s scary how many comments he’d get if he really did something. I have nothing against the guy personally, but like that quote says, I can find everything he discusses at Slashdot, 2-3 days before he’ll talk about it. It’s not a ring exclusively for blogs either.

Paper cut - your website has to be a journal, please make sure your site is not a clique, fanlisting, collective, etc.

Photoblogs webring - This is another photoblog ring. I actually enjoy visiting these because they tend to be designed cleanly and elegantly (a guy can use that word). Check out Fotolog.net, Photoblogs.org and Picture This.

Off topic: I know everyone has gotten one of those Nigerian scams in the email by now. I bumped into this great [M]adlib generator that creates a similar template that is customizable.

I found some more Blog-based Rings, none of them beat that Michael Jackson one though : (

Seyed Razavi, the man behind Bloggshares has a ring up for all the bloggers that want to be associated with Monkeys.

San Francisco Bay Area Bloggers, as the name suggests it is for Bay Area Bloggers.

Geeklog - Yup, a ring for geeks that blog.

The “I Talk Back” Ring - a webring for bloggers and journallers who can’t help but comment when they read something good. People should comment more often - it connects us, and helps promote good writing.

The ‘Go Fuck Yourself‘ Blog Ring - A ‘burb for journallers and bloggers who revel in the chance to swear up a storm and/ or write about their kids, their cats, their dogs, their gerbils, whatever the hell they feel like writing about at great length whenever they feel like it, and if YOU don’t like it? Well, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Hehe, check out the pic, situational comedy that can be used on forums to fend off trolls/flamers.

The “I Am [Canadian] Online Journal Registry” - Any Canadian online journal or weblog keeper may join. Canadians in exile are welcome, too. Hmm, can’t say that I know any Canadians in exile, but there is an Expatriate Blog Ring.

Obscure Logs - a webring for just that - obscure weblogs. You can’t be famous, so Cheyenne, no dice for you.

And I leave you with Blogatron. I asked if any of you knew of a blog entitled that and you all failed miserably (D- actually). Anywho, it’s “The observations of Hilatron, a space-age robot sent to study the Earthlings… by living as one of them.” Sadly, she doesn’t discuss sex or violence, so there really is no reason to visit. Any other Blogatrons out there?

I finally plowed through the last directory on my list. It is housed over at Northern Lights Internet Solutions (they do a lot of the same things Dave and I do… except they aren’t in their early 20s nor do they reside in Texas [Canuks]). I tried to find out the actual creator of the compendium and discovered it is authored (and maintained) by Peter Scott, who is the editor for other web directories. In addition, he created Libdex which is a “worldwide directory of library homepages, web-based OPACs, Friends of the Library pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links.” Note: I really don’t know what an OPAC is, here is the only English-based reference where OPAC is the centerpiece of the site. Also, he updates a blog discussing the latest news of the happenings in the wild & crazy online world for libraries.

Before I get to those links, here are a few I found interesting.

Blogtimes - This is a plug-in for MovableType (sorry to all the users of unprofessional publishing systems) and “What this plug-in does is to create a chart which plots the time of your posts(in a specified period) on a bar of the 24 hours of the day.”

So it looks something like this:

Well I’ve somehow managed to create 37 (this is number 38) posts since April 1, so my barcode would be gappy. Note: I win. You lose.

Oh, and check out the semi-official MT Plugins Directory. If you aren’t using MT yet, now would be a good time to switch (although Nucleus is about to hit 2.0, Pivot is just about done with their new version and Michel is back on Cafelog).

Weblog History - If you haven’t read a history on blogging or weblogs, be sure to read Rebecca Blood’s overview of it (it’s old too, alot has evolved since).

Indian Bloggers Ring - Anyone of Indian origin. As in the country of INDIA located in the continent of Asia. And who maintains a journal/diary/weblog that is frequently updated. This is the third one I’ve found, visit the other two (non-rings).

Sarcastic Geek Ring - This isn’t strictly for bloggers, but I thought there are plenty of geeks that use sarcasm bumping around on my site (in my dreams) to point it out.

Blogging Ecosystem - This is similar to Organica and Metaweblog and even Popdex as it keeps track of who is linking to who. I’m actually doing better on it than any of the aforementioned sites (even better than Technorati). Oh, and I’m pretty sure I’ve linked to more than the 38 sites it says I have ; )

Bloggando was listed in the Light’s Blog Directory for Italian-based blogs, but as you can see, it’s just one guy updating once a month or so. I found some good Italian blogs the other day, like Blog-It and BlogNews. Visit those for more [insert stereotype about pasta, pizza and the Mob here] fun.

Diary of a Madman - (warning: nudity) this isn’t just some guy’s blog, it’s some guys blog that linked to me a couple days ago and I don’t know where (something distracts me each time I try to find it). It reminds me of Dr. Grabbe’s site.

Blogging Network - another Diaryland/LiveJournal, somehow though not only do you get to host your journal there (I don’t consider proprietary solutions where they close you into their system to be blogging), but they also pay you a few ducats for posting your ramblings (I don’t see any ads, strange).

BlogKomm - another commenting system for your blog (for those less fortunate, for as little as $10/year you can digitize all the needs of a poor blogger). Similar to Haloscan and Enetation.

The Lefty Directory - A central directory of politically-oriented blogs who identify with liberals and/or the left. I doubt they get along too well with the Beltway Bloggers.

Librarian Blogs - I mentioned these guys earlier, but now I know the guy that compiles them (Peter Scott)… and I just wanted to poke fun of them again.

Popblog - a tiny directory for all blogs on pop culture, from music to movies to the plain weird stuff. I could register but was unable to log in and sent an email to the man in charge requesting assistance. I’ll let you know if he gets back with me.

Last 50 Pita’s - I don’t know why anyone would, but if you wanted to see a list of Pitas (50 of them), you can (I wouldn’t recommend it for health reasons).

Just to say I did, here is Jill Walker’s list of research blogs (I mentioned her earlier here).

If you want to see a large collection of weblogging software, here is Yahoo’s compendium. Check out Al Macintyre’s list too if you have a chance.

Blogathon - There really isn’t much information on this neat domain, other than a bunch of highschool-like kids staying up all night in a marathon of IMing (or some such Tomfoolery).

PHPWeblog - Yup, a PHP-based weblog. Stick with MT, Pivot, B2 or Nucleus. If you’re not using those then check it out.

Stay tuned for a quick-fun story (I can get away with using-hyphens-wherever I please-I’m an Aggie).

A couple days ago I was explaining how MSNBC Weblog Central was an embarrassment of a list (or something to that effect). Well I did a little more snooping and found more useful blog links based on your geography. In addition to those (below) I found some others you might like.

Blogging Equestrians - Although the subject matter of their blogs may not be entirely dedicated to the horse, they are admitting their obsession by belonging to the webring and allowing others to find likeminded souls.

Blogpoll - is to survey the opinion of bloggers everywhere. The idea is that you can have your say, see what everyone else thinks, and the results are freely available for everyone to use.

Blizg - is a blog index that focuses on metadata. We want to promote the use of metadata in the blogging community. Try it out, I redid some of my metadata so I could be categorized easier in their directory.

Blog Meetup - provides the technology to enable Bloggers to Meetup with each other locally. We hope this strengthens the Weblogger community.

Calgary Bloggers Ring - is the website-slash-community blog for bloggers in the Calgary region.

Colorado Bloggers Ring - A blog ring for Colorado-ites/artians/antz

Colorado Bloggers List - A list of bloggers in Colorado.

Houston-Galveston Bloggers List - Do you keep a blog or on-line journal and also live in the Houston/Galveston area? Join then.

Vancouver Webblogers List - For bloggers in Vancouver.

Hawaiian Bloggers - a gathering place where web-savvy islanders and islanders-at-heart share their thoughts - be they random epiphanies, poignant observations, anecdotes, rants, questions, lyrics, poems, or anything else, really.

Ottawa Bloggers List - for Webloggers, Journallers and Other Geeks in Ottawa

Boston Blogs - hosts social events and more for Boston-area web writers & webloggers. This is in addition to Bostonites and these Boston Bloggers.

Beltway bloggers - Are you a bloggabee? Do you believe in individual rights and limited government? Do you live in the D.C. Metro area? Then join.

DC Metro Bloggers Map - Welcome to the incredibly spiffy map where you can find bloggers in the D.C. metro area, arranged by metro station. Similar to the London Bloggers Tunnel Map.

New Orleans Bloggers - Bloggers in New Orleans.

Lousiville Weblogs - Weblogs by people living in Louisville, Kentucky.

Minnesota Bloggers - Bloggers living in Minnesota.

German Bloggers - Bloggers in Germany. Note: I pointed out this site a few days ago, great layout.

Dutch Bloggers - Note: many of the developers and users of Pivotlog live there in the Netherlands.

Dry Heat Ring - for webloggers of the desert southwest and mountain states of the U.S., including Texas and Oklahoma.

Midwestern Melodies Ring - if you were raised (or currently live) in either Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, or Wisconsin - then this is the ring for you.

Virginia Bloggers Ring - For those that live in Virginia and have a blog.

I’m still trying to organize all the links I have on the right, I’ve basically just thrown up a whole list of them and placed them by broad topics (if any). I’ll see what I can do to make it look Feng Shui.

Many of you are probably familiar with the Eatonweb Blog Portal. They have an entire section on webrings for blogs that I went through. Here are the results (Note: some of them are not exclusive blog rings).

Europeans in America - For either Europeans in America or Americans in Europe that have a blog.

Asian Blogs - For weblogs by Asians.

Blinkie Lovers - The webring for all you blinkie lovers. Do you create or collect blinkies? Then this is the perfect webring for you!

Blog Mums - Are you a Mother? Do you have a blog?

BLOG the Brunei Way - People who blog with their individual and different styles with one thing in common, Brunei.

Blog This! - If you own a blog, created through blogger/pita…then join the ring.

Bloggers with content - If you’re a blogger and you provide content then this is your ring. You have to provide original content, not just links to other blogs and sites.

Bloggers Anonmous! - This is a Web Ring Focused on thoes of you who just can’t seem to get away from your web blogs! I mean like you just *have* to post at least once a day or your day will not be complete. Join.

Blog Cams - Do you keep a journal, a diary, a weblog/blog, or a rambling account of your life activities? Do you publish it on your web site? Do you have a webcam that chronicles the comings and goings in your life? Then join.

Christian Bloggers - If you are a Christian and work a Blog, PITA, or online journal, this webring is for you!

CollegeBlog - is network of weblogs that are maintained by college students.

Expat Express - with the intent to bring together people who have migrated from their country of origin (permanently, or temporarily), and who now maintain a journal, diary, weblog, log, photolog, or blog.

Girls Blog UK - Is a webring for women/girls/female bloggers who live or were born in the UK.

Montreal Blog Ring - As its name indicates, this is a webring for sites containing blogs, diaries or journals mantained by Montrealers (citizens, residents, etc).

YULBlog - YULBLog was originally a local group news blog and is now portal to all manner of Montrealaise bloggy goodness.

LABlogs - For those in and around the Los Angeles area that blog.

I will not be silenced - This is a collection of web diaires and blogs which are written free from the fear that they will be silenced by censors. These are sites written by people who are aware that such sites are being censored, and who have chosen to speak out against this.

Positives - participation positives… a way to start monday. every monday morning, i post a list of positives in order to start the week on a positive note. please feel free to contribute your own positives in the comments of the most recent post, or in your own blog. a link back would be nice if you post ‘em on your own blog… that way other people can share their positives too! :) Make sure you ping here with your positive statements (half-full).

Lord of the Rings Blogs - For bloggers who like Lord of the Rings.

Naked Bloggers - People who have blogged at least once while naked.

Scarlateen Blogs - This ring is for the blogs & diaries of all registered users of Scarleteen.com

University of Waterloo Bloggers - Open to University of Waterloo students, faculty, grads, etc. who have a web log, journal site, or something of the ilk.

Veggie Blogs - Blogs by Vegans and Vegetarians.

Webmasters That Blog - Blog site for webmaster bloggers interested in sharing personal stuff, knowledge, tips and tricks, etc. with other webmasters. Note: Only one person belongs to the ring.

Women of Australia - Women of Oz is a webring for Australian women (and women residing in Australia) who keep blogs or online journals.

Brain Food - If you offer any kind of tutorial, for graphics or code and have a blog, then check them out.

Creative Chicks - This is a webring for women that are creative with crafts, decorating or photography.

Indoblogs - For Indonesian bloggers.

Michael Jackson Forever Blogs - If you’re a Michael Jackson fan, list your blog in this webring. It’s sites like that which help SomethingAwful pay the bills.

Poetic Bloggers - For those bloggers who love poetry and post them in their blog.

Sara Smile - This is a webring for women with the name of Sara, Sarah or another derivative of Sara. Note: it’s not blog specific enough to make the list.

Wisconsin Blogs - If you live in Wisconsin and have a web log or journal, you’re more than invited to join our happy, and sometimes hardly amusing, internet clique.

I feel much better now that I found these, I want to be like Mike.

These links finish off all 3 directories, the DMOZ Weblog Webrings, Google Weblog Webrings (nearly identical) and the Google Webring Directory. Also, Fractured Atlas appears to have gotten their list of journal rings from the Diarist database (or vice-versa).

I think I’ll let some other adventerous soul go through the rest of the Fractured Atlas Journals index to find blog specific syndication sites. Very slim pickings.

Here’s one for Catholic bloggers - St. Blog’s Parish.

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I mentioned Fractured Atlas as having a large group of blog rings, well I was mistaken. I went through all of the links found here and could not find one that was dedicated to simply bloggers. Below is all of the ones that worked, I will not add them to the syndication list on the right. All of them are for web journals, but none for blogs specifically.

Before I do that, I did find two blog specific sites that you might be interested in:

Name That Blog! is a new game / link exchange / advertisement system for use on any blog! Playing is simple: if you see Name That Blog! on a site, just guess which blog you think the post comes from. You’ll find out if you were right or wrong, and have the chance to visit any of the possible answers. Go ahead and submit your blog into the mix.

A Clique for Bloggin� Web Designers - a clique for web designers with a passion for punishment. Each member must create a new blog design each month … for someone else. Requirements can be found here.
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I went through the DMOZ Weblog Webring directory.

AmeriBlogs - A ring for weblogers from the United States.

Aussie Weblog Banner Exchange - Want to get your weblog or personal site viewed for free? Want to see more sites of a similar nature to yours? Sick of banner exchanges that won’t accept personal site? Don’t want to fill your page with ads about casinos and other junk? Join our banner exchange and share banners with other webloggers and ordinary people with personal sites. Get recognised.

BigBlogs - This webring for the blogs of BBW and BHMS. Your blog doesn’t have to have a lot of fat content, but you should be size accepting. I hear their nemesis are the peeps at WeighBetter.

Black Blogz - For black bloggers. The intent is not to necessarily exclude non-black bloggers, it is meant to showcase journals written from a black perspective. He�s no longer accepting members but might sometime in the near future.

Blawg Ring - A blawg (pronounced as you think it should be) is a frequently-updated website dealing with legal issues, or the issues of people in the legal profession, or both.

Blog Domains - This ring was created with the intent to bring together the domains that are only or mainly blogs.

Bloggirls - A webring for girls addicted to BLOGGERS!

Blog Gerl Ring - They didn’t mention specifics, but it�s probably for gerls, gals and girls.

Blog-A-Rama - This is a ring for group weblogs. If you are in a group weblog, please sign up below to place your blog in the queue. A group blog is a blog that has more than 1 person posting to it.

Bloggers of Ontario Ring - A blog ring for those in Ontario.

Bloggers over 40 - The webring is for all bloggers who have made it into at least their fourth decade of life, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc. A bunch of agists I tell you!

Blogging Bitches - Check out the requirements page to see if you can join. (Hint: you have to be a little bitchy).

Christine Blog Ring - Your name must be Christine (or any variation thereof, see below) This is like the Jen/Jenn Blog Ring.

Blogmania - This is a webring for blogs only. Are you addicted to blogging? Love your blog? Or just crazy about blogs? This is the webring for you.

The Blogrolling Webring - You must be using Blogrolling as your links management system.

Blogs by Pagans Ring - So if you’re a pagan, there you are. There is also Blogs for God, just to show that I’m balanced in linking.

Blogs that Cook. Love to cook? Love to blog? Well, this is the webring for you! Don’t forget to check out The Red Kitchen.

Blogster Webring - A ring for the blogging community. If you have a blog (short for weblog), join us! Blogger, Greymatter, Movable Type, PHPNuke, it doesn’t matter how you update. The Webloggers Paradise = Blogster Webring.

Bostonites - Do you live in or around boston? Do you blog? Then join.

Boylogs - If you’re a boy and own a weblog, then this is the ring for you.

FiberBloggers - A webring for craftsfolk in textiles and the fiber arts with blogs.

Fiction Bloggers - Websites containing blogs, live journals or online diaries operated by people who write fiction. It doesn’t matter the kind of fiction you write (fan fiction or original fiction).

Gamerlogs - is a ring which brings together gamers with blogs, journals or logs. so if you play console and pc games and love blogging about anything under the sun, then this ring is for you.

Otaku Blog Ring - the purpose of this site is to unite all the people out there who share two common interests: love for all kinds of anime/manga, and the habit of writing in Online Journals. Note, I am helping to start up OtakuBlog.com which is hoping to bring the Anime, Manga and Otaku communities together.

Log Revolution - Are you an anime fan? Do you blog with a passion? Then join the ring.

Geek Goddess Ring - Here is a list of requirements, paging Gnome-Girl.

greyLOGS - This is a ring for people who use Greymatter to power their blog.

Glasses Wearing Blog Ring - For bloggers that wear glasses. Note, it’s the same guys that run the Military Blog Ring.

Pro-Choice Blog Ring - For all the bloggers that are Pro-choice (in the abortion sense).

Cliquetastic Ring - This clique are for people who own a clique blog ring.

Diamond Rings - Must be the owner of a blog ring, like Cliquestastic.

Static Cling - A ring for blog webrings owners.

Net Sisters Blog Ring - You must belong to the Net Sisters Organization before you can join. Damn.

Leftie Blogger - for bloggers who are left handed.

Ooooner - Ooooners are unique, interesting, inspiring, thought-provoking, witty individuals who STAND OUT from the general Internet community.

Verbosity - Just read their requirements. Basically, for general bloggers, though you need to update on a regular basis.

Liberal Blogs - Nope, they don’t give out stuff, it’s for liberals in the American political sense.

Redhead Blog Ring - Hey, this is no ordinary webring. It’s special.. we’re special.. we’re redheads! Are you a redhead? Finally a ring I can join.

Self-Improvement Blog Ring - You need to have a blog that deals with your own personal self improvement. Be it weight loss, or excercise, or whatever. Relatively frequent updates would be a good thing as well.

Southern Blog Ring - This is strictly a southern blog webring. The definition of southern in Websters Dictionary is: In or toward the south. So with that definition, you can be in the southern hemisphere, have a blog and be in this webring. It’s not just for people in the southern USA. If you are in the southern USA, Africa, Australia, South America, or anywhere South of the equator, you can be in this webring.

Waterblogged Ring - The Waterblogged netring seeks to connect online journals and weblogs maintained by those born under the water signs Pisces, Scorpio and Cancer, as well as all other diarists who feel an affinity with water.

Button Exchange - Got a weblog or other personal site? Want to be linked on other similar sites? Don’t want stupid flashy commercial ads on your site? Join our button exchange and share buttons with other webloggers and ordinary people with personal sites. I should submit one of mine I made for Blogstickers.

Weblog webring - anyone who has a weblog or web journal can join this ring.

Wedblog Ring - A ring especially for engaged and newlyweds who talk frequently about these things in the weblog. I had no idea how many projects these gals sponsor, check them. They host blogplates and bloginality.

Weekly Memes - This is an elite webring, meaning that only those who run one of these memes are eligible to join. This is NOT for those who are just participating in them.

More webrings can be found here: DMOZ Journal Webrings. I’ll look through those to find out which ones you can submit blogs too.

Bourque Blog Log - Got a Blog? Want a link? Not a ring but a normal listing of blogs in cyberspace.

Scottish Bloggers - if you are Scottish born or currently reside in Scotland and are sensible then you can apply.

Dead - Blog Log, Webloggers, Domain Lovers, Love to Blog, Indie Blogs & Note Pad Blogs.

That’s one down, oh so many more to go.

You can’t keep a good man down. Well after 36 hours of no sleep, I’m back and have some more syndication sites for your blog. I found a large treasure trove at GeekPhilosopher.com which itself updates daily with news from pertaining to the blog world.

Austin Index - is for Austin Texas webloggers, writers, photographers, artists, web designers, and others who share a common passion for publishing on the web.

Xenoblogs - for weblogs outside of America (that’s an unsubstantiated rumor, sorta like a spherical earth).

Indian Bloggers List - This is another list of blogs for those of Indian origin, residing in any part of the world. I found Blogs of India earlier.

Phoenix Bloggers Ring - If you have a blog or journal and live in the Phoenix area, sign-up.

Canada Blog Ring - If you’re from that other part of America, then join up. (Yes, I have lots of relatives up there, aboot 15).

Atalanta Blog Ring - This ring is all about Atlanta, Georgia. We aspire to link together all the fabulous journals & photologs on the web that are kept current and maintained by someone who lives in the Atlanta area. The only thing they should change on that site is the color for the scroller, it blends in with the background.

Brazillian Blogs - I don’t speak any Portuegese so it’s up to you to prove me wrong.

Xanga Blog Rings - Join an Existing Ring! Join a circle of Webloggers who write about the same things you do! Create Your Own Ring! Start your own circle of Weblogs focused on a shared topic of interest! It’s Xanga, it’ll at least bring in that highly sought-after (for disposable income reasons) 14-18 year old audience [wink].

Weigh Better Blog Ring - This webring is for people on the journey to health and fitness through diet and exercise. Any and all sites related will be considered. Weightloss/fitness journals being the prime focus of this ring. Paging Jason DeFillippo (please don’t hurt me).

Weblogging Women Ring - This ring is for women with weblogs, blogs, online journals or diaries.

Military Bloggers Ring - This is a site dedicated to those of us who are related to the military, either by active duty, reserve duty, retired duty, or family and friends.

E-Male Bloggers Ring - For guys, check out the requirements page to see if you can make the cut (nothing really strict).

Blogging Mommies Ring - Do you have a weblog, journal or diary that you update at least a couple times a week? Do you write about parenthood, children, pregnancy and/or family life? Dads can also join (I’ll start the official Blogging Daddies Ring once the results come back).

Blogplates Ring - This is a webring of weblog/journal designs plus some information on how to implement them for your own personal journal. I completely forgot about these guys back when I started this endeavour into blogdom. Great resources for those looking to spruce up your site (so is OSWD and Blogskins).

Blogomania Ring - This webring was created for all weblogs hosted by Blogomania — including your personal online journals, photologs, group blogs, news blogs and more! Despite the fact that I work for a competitor I’ll still mention them.

Fractured Atlas Blog Ring - I’ll go through these and let you know which ones work and which ones I haven’t listed.

Fractured Atlas Blog Index - I’ll go through these and let you know which ones work and which ones I haven’t listed, there are a ton.

Fractured Atlas Collaborations -
Some of these sites allow you to join up and submit your own. I’ll have to go through them one by one for more information.

Fractured Atlas Collections - Again, some of these will let you join and list your blog. I’ll go through them to find out more.

California Blog Ring - You must have a blog/journal and reside in the sunny state of California. I need to find the Texas one.

DMOZ Weblog Webrings - I’ll go through these in the next day to see which ones are active and give you the 411.

Google Weblog Webrings - Same deal, I’ll look through these to find any/all that are active and let you know.

Google Webring Directory - This is way down my priority list, but I’ll look through them too (sometime).

Dead links (to cover my back in case they come back): BlogginNoggin - Is no longer active. It housed the Windy City Blog Ring apparently, so you’ll have to use this one until further notice. And, Blogs of Color is down for the count, but the message on their site hints at a comeback.

All of these have been added to the proper Syndication lists. Expect that list to grow immensely (especially since I found more directories). Feel free to send me a link of sites that syndicate your blog (English-speaking and blog-centric primarily, but it’s all good)

Where to begin with this batch of blogtastic list of links.

Every other day or so I’ll come across a blog that has a several links that require me to pore over, today’s was from a site with the motto: Trust me, I’m a librarian. I don’t speak a lick of Norwegian or any Scandanavian language at that, but that is not needed when scouring blogs for links — you just guess and check, just like chemistry class. I originally found this subsite of links from Anders Jacobsen’s Part 3 on Optimizing MovableType.

Here they are in no particular order:

The Red Kitchen - Now this is a fun side for food aficionados and people that like food aficionados. You can submit your own recipes here manually, or those of you who have a TrackBack enabled blog (like MT), ping them here - you can now show the world your families secret delicatessen. So out of the 27 visitors, 6 can’t read English, 11 can’t cook, 7 will look at the recipe and mess up the measurements, 2 will attempt to eat the print out and 1 will successfully bake an apple pie (when it was How to make a Glazed Meatloaf).

Book Review repository - This is yet another Anders Jacobsen blog. Here he lets anyone (MT-users specifically) ping his server regarding a book they reviewed. In his own words:

“The idea is simple: other MT users can “ping” this site whenever they write a review, and the site will automatically link back to the entry. There is a list of categories and each category has a different “Ping URL”.

The benefits to the author is: The content remains on your server, not mine, or amazon’s or anyone elses. This way we can collectively gather a nice collection of reviews and still own the content ourselves.”

I know quite a few bookworms out there, too bad most of them are computer illiterate & blog deficient, so you guys need to work double shifts to make up for their inabilities.

Norske blogger - Inactive as of August 2002, a group Norwegian-based bloggers (I need to cover my back in case they become active again).

Nettdagbok - This is a webring for Norwegian bloggers. I’m not sure about you, but that name sounds Klingon than anything else (all offense taken).

Librarian blogs - Well, not only do they guard the Holy Temple of Humanity, but they also plot their plans of conquest and domination for the world (usually other librarians) to see.

Popdex - This free service allows you to find out just how popular your blog is. Based on my current stats I should actually try more of the syndication services I blog about. I found it off of royby’s blog which I found off of Jill Walker’s blog — the Six Blogging Degrees of Tim Swanson, who will I find next?

Blogphiles - I came upon this site (blog ring) a few weeks back but I thought it was inactive. Apparently not however, as royby has an active link to the blog ring. Blogphiles was also nominated for a Bloggie Award under the Best Weblog Ring category (it didn’t win however).

Windy City Bloggers - This is for bloggers in and around the Chicago area. I pity you and your weather (I expect your pity during the Texas Summers).

Blogs & Pets - A weblog webring dedicated to the bloggers whom are owned by pets. It is the hope of its creators that you will be able to teach your master some new tricks along with the ability to leave the lid down. If I had a photogenic mammal within my domain I would join, so should you.

Picture This - A general photoblog webring for GreyMatter & MovableType users.

Blogging Brits - I mentioned Birmingham and Londoner based blogs yesterday, so here is the all inclusive Briton weblog webring. If you make me an honorary anglophile I would be very obliged [insert stereotypical statement regarding scones and tea].

Aussie Blogs - For Aussies, By Aussies - FABA. In addition to bringing Oz to other Ozians, they have a great picture of Sydney (you can always tell by that Opera House).

Aussie Weblog Webring - I don’t know the name of that particular landmass pictured, however it looks similar to Devil’s Tower in Wyoming which was in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (as opposed to the 5th).

MT Webring - For MovableType users only. This is similar to the MT Blog Ring which still has yet to add me to their list (add me).

Yahoo Weblog Directory - Yes, I stumbled upon them. Add yourself to the list of luminaries - they aren’t too discriminatory it appears as somehow Fark got on there (not a blog site). The submission button is in the inconvenient top right part labeled as “Suggest a Site.” I’m not sure how long it will take to process, but if you do the “free” service, expect many moons.

BlogPromo Yahoo Group - “Dead On Arrival” will there be a sequel like a video game? If you’re into Yahoo Groups then and you want to resurrect it, let me know, I’ll make another gratuitous post regarding your endeavour.

Bookwatch - These guys just watch books to see how they operate in their natural setting. Occassionally one will get up and walk off, but that only happens when one of those librarians at Libdex reshelves them. Bookwatch doesn’t really syndicate per se, they just collate the books pinged onto Weblogs throughout the day - so maybe you do get syndicated, if you do that wild thing.

Blogfodder - No real syndication takes place (although viewers could be inspired by your musings and visit your site). It is, a daily micro-mail that contains a word, phrase, link, or image that could spark an idea that could lead to a train of thought that might someday become the seed of a weblog post. It’s actually pretty fun, you just need to have either an imaginative wordsmithing capability or a large vocabulary.

Meerkat - I see this all over the place, it really doesn’t do syndication for “normal” blogs, you have to be syndicated by a larger “more important” website already. So, either become famous now or fool them and add your own feed somehow (please your plan worked).

iQuality - Think you have a slick website that oozes with both simplicity and intuitiveness? Well, if Apple isn’t hiring you could at least submit your blog to these guys for further review.

And I leave you with a funny Googlewashing story from TheRegister. My favorite quote:

“Pew Research Center’s latest research says the number of Internet users who look at blogs is ” so small that it is not possible to draw statistically meaningful conclusions about who uses blogs.” They peg it at about four per cent. But we’re looking at a small sub-genre of blogdom, the tech blogs, and specifically, we’re looking at an ‘A list’ of that sub- sub-genre.”

Will this revolution be televised? (Hehe, I can just hear Chris Rock say that).

Somehow MT posted the same blog twice, please pardon this, I’ll try to refrain from doing it more than once a week. To make the best of an OK situation, here is the FAQ for BlogFodder. Also, here is a javascript program I found to list referrers (as you can see I’m getting traffic hand over fist). Here is Disenchanted a similar concept but only cache’s for 20 minutes. I couldn’t find a similar plug-in at MT-Plugins, however I did find this one that could do the trick so as long as you have access to root. Just install AWStats and the plug-in and you’re good to go (it’s a better version of Webalizer and Analog).

And since I’m really grasping at straws, here is large compilation of RSS readers.

Mining through sites like a search engine bot, that’s what I’ve done throughout the past week (I didn’t go to bed at all last night either).

Devious, an Independent weblog directory. Site submission is down temporarily, until after April 9th (or so the administrator claims).

AntiBloggies - You’ve seen the “Official” Bloggie Awards - here is the unofficial, counterculture, iconoclastic, avant-garde group unpromoting their antiawards.

Blogcontrol.com - A review of tools for blogging software and blog utilities.

BlogTrack lists and dispays blogs as they are updated, letting you read many blogs in a fraction of the time you would normally use. BlogTrack displays all the current entries from the blogs listed in a blogroll. You can either create your own Custom Blogroll or use the Blogroll of a reference blog. A current entry is either a posting made in the last 24 hours or since the last time you took a checkpoint. Oddly enough, that info was found here and not at the BlogTrack homepage.

Blogdexter will help you jump to the page on blogdex that displays the web addresses of people who have linked to your url.

A Large Head - Great name and some useful information as well. She spearheaded the Antibloggie Awards and apparently is the gal in charge of DFW Blogs (add me por favor).

backBlog is a feedback system for bloggers and web page owners. It allows you to receive feedback from readers for entries you write in your blog or web page. Similar to Popdex and Blogrolling ([ed.]backBlog is currently not taking new members, so I’ll have to look at it later for a final call).

You know how I was bragging about how one doesn’t need a translator to mine links on the web? Well, that still is true, but it is awfully hard to navigate and submit your own site to say, an Italian-based blog directory. I managed to run into four of them: GNUeconomy.net, Blot-It, BlogNews & Bloggando. Even with Babelfish I had difficulties trying to figure out how to submit my blog (I have no clue what I submitted it to, spam here I come). Wrapping up our tour of the boot-shaped landmass is the Italian Blog webring.

The Jen/Jenn blog webring. Whether you are a Jen, Jenn, Jenna, Jennifer, Jennita, Jennalyn, Jenny, Jendaya… something with Jen and a weblog, join up. Haha, the most creative one I’ve seen so far.

Santo de Casa - To all of my Brazilian readers, pay close attention to the buttons on the left, I think they mean something and link to someplaces (actually I do know 2 people in Brazil, neither blog though).

The University of Florida Blog Webring created by Leia: All I’ve got to say is: Gig’em Aggies.

Rutherford High School blog webring (also by Leia — I’m trying to suck up to her): I actually went to an RHS myself, Richardson High School.

B2 blog ring - if you aren’t familiar with Cafelog, check it out - it�’s basically a lite version of MovableType (Michel apparently has come back too).

BLOGware - simple yet detailed graphics and icons for your personal weblog (I should probably do something to jazz up this blog, any suggestions?).

The Ageless Project, their goal: We’re sending the message that the personal, creative side of the web is diverse and ageless and if each of you personal website builders out there will openly share your date of birth with us, we’ll be on our way to proving it! The application is quick, easy and harmless. Dolphin-friendly.

Need some sites to ping after you update (in addition to Weblogs and blo.gs), try Wander-Lust (join their ring too) and Rootblog (basically it’s Blogarama with a ping form)

David sent me this link of Chris Pirillo. Yes, that is the same Chris that runs LockerGnome. Yes that is the same Chris on TechTV. Yes that is the same Chris who, well I don’t know much more about him. I do know that Jason DeFillippo (a friend of Chris) is now toning up for the Gnomedex Olympics.

If you hablas en espanol muy bien, then head on over to the Blogdir, because they are a directory of Spanish-speaking blogs. Additionally, Bitacoras is also a comunidad de weblogs en espanol (glad I learned Spanish instead of German now).

BlogMatrix - is a blog tracking system that is still in beta. You can add your blog to their directory , however they insist that you rewrite the template to meet their needs. I added mine without rewriting the template; I’ll look into what exactly they change to make their bots happier when they index my site with the rewrite.

Inventory - another independent blog directory, but with a twist. They take a snapshot (literally) of your website, so be creative or at least non-vanilla (I’m one to talk) when joining the directory.

Blog of the Day. Nominate yourself (I did) or someone you know - they are simple and consistent with their plan, give it a shot.

Z-List is trying to build networks for “the underblogdexed.” Signing up is pretty simple, just post once on their forum and they’ll add you to their list.

For those just can’t wait for more places to syndicate their thoughts and erotic fantasies, try Memepool, Fark, Madville or Catch. I can’t promise they’ll accept the links, but I do promise that you’ll have to fill out registration forms, can you handle that? (Note: I’ll talk about those 4 sites in the next week or so).

Sometime in the not-so-distant future, visit Metaweblog. It is creating an SQL database to collate thousands of blogs each day (off of Weblogs.com). In the future they hope to add a “Submit site” to their feature list.

Organica - Still in the crawling stages, and makes statistics on what’s popular right now, related sites, who links to who, which tools are being used, webservers being used for weblogs and so on. In particular there will be a useful xml feed of “interesting stuff right now”. My blog has uhh, [lowers head in shame].

Vecindario - Spanish-speaking community of bloggers, looks nice enough (I�ll try to stay English-only, just giving my yearly output of bilingualism today).

Microdoc’s News is a weblog magazine dedicated to discussing personal power in the Information Age. Check out the article “Blogging is not Journalism.”

Enetation - This is a 3rd party utility for implementing a comment system on your blog — similar to Haloscan.

TopicExchange - The first of its kind that I’ve seen. It is a TrackBack driven website, though a little light on the substance currently. Ping away.

eCuaderno - I have to plug this site by Dr. Jose Luis Orihuela of Pamplona Spain. Despite the language barrier, I found some great resources for syndication (that�s where many of the Spanish sites came from, you guessed that too).

The Weblog Review - Register and try to submit your weblog for review. Don’t be surprised if it is not processed, they seem to be continuously busy and in high demand. I’ll grade your site, for a price. They are also the same guys running BlogControls.

Inner Balance also assisted my travels as I had not seen several links regarding blog syndication.

I think that makes up sufficiently for the lack of links yesterday. Now enjoy this as I did (found it here):

As you know, in addition to educating clients and possible clients as to what blogs are, how they are useful and which software meets their needs, I spend a great deal of time perusing blogs themselves. Primarily to mine for potential blog syndication sites that help in blog promotion.

This brings me to something I haven’t said before, there is an extremely large amount of terribly designed/colored blogs. I’m not an artsy-fartsy type, but I do have an idea as to what clashes. What’s worse, is that some of them use MovableType, Pivot, b2 and Nucleus. Its one thing for a LiveJournal to look terrible (they just are) or even a Blogger powered ones (though, the default template is decent enough), but to have a un-Feng Shui, un-aesthetically pleasing MT-based blog built, maintained and linked to… there should be a law (heh).

Anyways, someone needs to register UglyBlogs.com or FatBlogsInPartyHats.com or BlogAwful.com — some definitive site that can keep track of the ugliness, so we can avoid them — BlackListedBlogs.com sounds more like it.

Now you’re wondering what I dug up today. Actually, I have to process another 20 or so links that I found useful enough to talk about, in addition to the ones below. So here we go.

Blogdex - I’ve seen this site listed all over the place, but the link would always time out on me. It worked this time and I added my site successfully (you receive a verification email). Go for it.

Bloginality - This is a site that analyzes your personality and gives you a 4-letter output as to what you are. I took it quickly and am an ISTP — don’t lose sleep over what you get though, they aren’t quite definitive… like the ink blots : )

Technorati - Another site I continue to see all over the Blogosphere. I don’t care much for building watch lists though. This is somewhat similar in concept to FreshBlogs and NewisFree. But if watching lists is your thing (and paying money to do so), then have at it.

A couple of dead links on the Google Blog Directory: Euroblogs, it has been inactive since May 2001. GBlogs - this I found on a blog (either Radio or at one of the Jacobsens sites), it’s dead and I think it was one for the UK.

BloggerLinks.com - Not a very extensive list of blog resources, but give it time. You can submit your blog too, not sure how long it takes them to process it though.

Birmingham blogs - For those that live in Birmingham UK, not exactly much of a list (I think more people have read my blog than are listed there), but the more the merrier (syndication that is).

Blogs of India - If you’re reading my blog and you’re from India, submit your blog to that site to be included in the coolest thing since Bollywood.

Toronto Area Bloggers - To my friends up in the great unarmed North, add your blog to that ever growing list. I actually have a friend that lives and works up there, but he is too afraid to blog (get a blog Cailean).

London Bloggers - So it’s not just Birmingham that gets represented today, Londoners can rejoice as they too have their own blog portal (blortal). I should add that the format for adding your blog on that site is pretty cool, check it out even if you don’t live there.

NYC Bloggers - To make Yankee friends up north (not just Canuks), here is a portal for your blogging needs.

DFW Bloggers - I actually sent them an email about a week ago to get added to their list and they still haven’t gotten back to me. Anywho, this is for the Dallas/Fort Worth area based bloggers.

San Diego Bloggers - Yup, for the San Diego-ites-arians-istans-etc.

Blogs for Xians - Yea, god-fearing members of the blogosphere (or at least ‘Christians’) now have a place of their own.

Photoblogs - This was really cool. Photoblogs have become their own subculture (I guess I’ll give them the stamp of their own real culture once I make one). Snazy.

Pitas - This is only useful if you use Pitas (which most don’t). If you are using Pitas and are for some reason not on Jennifers list, get on it.

The Octopus Files - If the owner got a real domain and got rid of the popup, I’d add this to the syndication sites column. Not a huge list of blogs, but it’s better than nothing.

Lastly is Get-Linked - They appear to be similar to Eatonweb and Blogarama — another collection of blogs. But at least they get to use the creative name: Fried-Spaghetti as the domain.

All of these have been added to the column on the right, bringing the list of syndication sites to over 40. Feel free to email me if you know of one I should add or check out.

Here are some more links I came across the last few days.

Another link Bobby sent me was this collection of weblog software, or rather a list of sites that have something to say about blogging software (RU stands for Radio Userland fyi).

To see if there was any blogging software I hadn�t seen or used, I went with door number one and found myself here.

Now that is what I call a list. Though, if you look closely, some of the links are to robust content-management systems than simple weblogging software (like PHP-Nuke and Slash versus Blogger or Cafelog). This is definitely one of the best compendiums I’ve found so far (even though it has just its name mentioned check out Pivot).

And here is Al Macintyre’s list of web syndication sites - I went through all of them and found the following sites useful:

This is part of the DMOZ project (the Open Directory) and you can submit your own personal weblog to be added (I do not know how long it takes). Mine still hasn�t come up and I submitted it on Tuesday evening.

I actually bumped into BoingBoing many moons ago and I might have even submitted my site this past week. Here is the suggestion form for you to add your blog to their database. Be specific, don’t be shy.

Bloglinker similar to BlogRolling, only I got it to work without any problems. If you do decide to try it out, click on mine and see how I modified it - the default version is very tacky, I just slimmed it down to a simple link to my stored list. The guys that made BL also are the brains behind mymedialist, which “lets you remotely manage a list of music, books, films or videogames on your blog or website. It can be embedded anywhere on your webpage and can be easily configured to fit