Comments on: How to Find Great Blogs on Any Subject?

Question: How to Find Great Blogs on Any Subject?

XSteveMurphy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:56:05 -0800

How can I find a great blog on a subject I have found a new interest in?

For instance, and this is only an example, if I found a new love for blu-ray and wanted to find a blog with reviews and new features and players. I could search google for "blu-ray blog" or "blu-ray reviews" but there are tons of sites and there's no way to screen them. I also want to try to find blogs my mom might be interested in, and I'm hoping to find some list of blogs with ratings or reviews by subject. Any thoughts?

By: ClarissaWAM

ClarissaWAM — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:03:43 -0800

Search a place like del.icio.us rather than Google?

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:09:39 -0800

You might get some use out of technorati as well.

By: Aidan Kehoe

Aidan Kehoe — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:10:12 -0800

In your position, I'd look at the intersection of the blog and, say, blu-ray tags on del.icio.us (someone has saved the link, so there's a minimal threshold of quality implied), then look through them and decide if they match your particular interpretation of 'good.'

Also, have a look through http://del.icio.us/popular/blog+<subject> if it returns any links—it doesn't for blu-ray—and http://del.icio.us/popular/blu-ray; the latter gives me this, which seems chock-full of relevant information.

By: CAnneDC

CAnneDC — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:14:46 -0800

Have you tried Google's blog search? I track blogs and key words for work and I swear by it. its www.google.com/blogsearch
You can also use search.blogger.com, which I think turns up the same results but within the Blogger interface. You can sort by relevance or date.

Or try Technorati (depending on what you want to look up) They rank blogs by authority and show you who has linked to it. It's also great.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:49:04 -0800

I hate Google's blog search. I've run a couple of queries and almost every single result was a spam blog. There were 1 or 2 actual blogs. Totally useless.

I also haven't found Technorati that great, because some people use tags kind of broadly and not carefully.

I've found the best links to relevant sites from the sigfiles of people on message boards devoted to that topic. At least it shows that they're actively interested in the topic and not just throwing a tag in there 'cause, what the heck. Then you can get other links from those sites. Also, really well-focussed general Google searches.

By: lalex

lalex — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:56:22 -0800

Kinja is an RSS blog aggregator, but you can search for blogs using subject tags without signing up for an account. I find that their layout is clean and user-friendly.

By: timepiece

timepiece — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:11:56 -0800

I generally do a feed search on my RSS reader, Bloglines. And you don't have to use Bloglines as a reader to search for feeds, either: here are the results for Blu-ray.

By: jmnugent

jmnugent — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:06:35 -0800

You could always try the Stumble Upon toolbar and do a keyword search for the topic you are interested in...

By: tmcw

tmcw — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:29:42 -0800

I could care less about blu-ray, but del.icio.us tag combination "blu-ray+blog" yielded this site that might interest you.

By: roboto

roboto — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:20:49 -0800

IceRocket does blog search with trends even!