Blogging Tools at Blog Search dot com

We're working on new ways to increase the value of blogs for both readers and writers. Meanwhile, here are several of the most popular blogging tools organized by category. (Feedback welcome!)

Blog reading tools ("RSS Aggregrators"):

• Bloglines - Web-based
• FeedDemon - for Windows (now part of NewsGator)
• Feedreader - lightweight open-source aggregator, for Windows
• Findory - Web-based, personalized
• NetNewsWire - for Mac OS X (now part of NewsGator)
• NewsGator - for Outlook
• Radio UserLand - for the desktop
• ... plus several more news readers listed on Google's Web Directory (DMOZ)

Blog publishing tools:

• Movable Type - by Six Apart
• Radio UserLand - for the desktop
• WordPress
• ... plus several more tool publishers listed on Google's Web Directory (DMOZ)

Blog hosting:

• Blogger (and blogspot.com) - owned by Google
• Typepad (and blogs.com) - Moveable Type (Six Apart)
• WordPress.com - WordPress (Automattic)
• ... plus several more blog hosts listed on Google's Web Directory (DMOZ)

Blog advertising:

• Blogads "for opinion makers"
• Federated Media (fmpub.net) "support(s) independent website authors and audiences, by connecting them to marketers in an ongoing and robust conversation that feeds everyone involved"

Blog networks:

• BlogNetworkList ranks 75 blog networks in various ways.

Meme Trackers:

• Techmeme - the Web, social networking, mobile and more
• Tailrank - multiple categories
• Megite - multiple categories
• Memeorandum - politics
• Wesmirch - celebrities
• Ballbug - Major League Baseball

Technology:

• Atom is an emerging spec (more info on the Atom Wiki)
• RSS (or a later version) = Really Simple Syndication (previously: "RDF Site Summary")
• Feed Validator checks RSS and Atom

Big picture: what does it all mean?

• My Pajamasphere site talks about how blogs provide an important check to the mainstream media, using Ra^thergate as an example.

is a starting point for searching blogs.

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