600,000 blogs for the downloading. Weblog Census is a Technorati/Blogdex/Daypop-style project that has indexed over 600,000 blogs from around the world, archiving all the posts its ever discovered. You can download all this data from the project site, and invent your own data-mining alogrithms to discover the topology of Blogistan.

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Blogs will fade away.

I woke up yesterday with these thought.

Blogs will fade away within two years.  What we know now as blogs will not be recognized by web users of tommorrow.  Website technologies and blogging technologies are on a converging path and will soon be indistinguishable from one another.

RSS will also disappear in favor of subscriptions.  People will take it for granted that webpages can be subscribed to.  Web browsers will be changed to support single-click webpage subscription.  No mess, no fuss.  Throw in client-side highlighting of changes as well.  No RSS, no Echo, just subscriptions.

[Don Park's Daily Habit] 
3:36:41 AM      comment []   trackback []  



New pages for gzip and user agent id reports. I've taken my reports on Aggregators that support gzip and Aggregators that don't implement RFC 2616, Sec 3.8 product tokens and broken them out into separate pages, so the people won't have to go trawling through the blog to find them. [Ted Leung on the air] 
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