Weblog and RSS Resources

Weblog and RSS Resources

Michael Hunter 8/17/04
Web version at http://people.hws.edu/hunter/blogrsslist04.htm

Locating Weblogs via Directories

http://dmoz.org/ Open Directory's excellent listing and descriptions

http://portal.eatonweb.com Access by subject and country of origin

http://blogwise.com Strong in popular culture, news and entertainment

http://www.lights.com (library-related, worldwide)

Blog Search Engines (Search Content of Blogs)

http://blogdex.net Url and text search

http://www.technorati.com URL and "link cosmos" search; over 1,300,000 searched

http://daypop.com The most popular current events blog resource

http://feedster.com Includes many RSS feeds as well

Weblog Authoring Tools and Hosting Sites (free and fee)

http://www.livejournal.com
The largest blog hosting service on the Web

http://new.blogger.com
One of the first blog hosting sites

http://diaryland.com
Focus is on personal weblogs for young people

http://radio.userland.com
Basic service is free; $39.95 gives you advanced options

http://www.thehostingdirectory.biz
Annotations and other helpful data about each site

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Locating RSS Feeds via Directories

http://syndic8.com
Strong in regional and local syndicated news sources in North America and related weblogs

http://newsisfree.com
Includes topic-focused feeds and free online aggregator

http://2RSS.com
Features business and financial feeds; offers a free Atom-to-RSS convertor

RSS Verzeichnis German RSS feed directory

RSS Feed Search Engines (Search Content of RSS Feeds)

Many of the RSS Directories listed above also search content

RSS Authoring Tools, Readers and Aggregators