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I love blogs. I love blogging. Hell, my license plate even says BLOGGER (pretty sure I won't be able to score than one when I move to Seattle).
My biggest complaint is finding fresh new voices with fresh new ideas. Marketing and Tech blogs have been around just as long as blogging itself. There are no shortage of blogs on these topics. We all read the top blogs. Everyone shares the same links to the same blogs (unless it's your own).
Where's the promise of the Long Tail in the blogosphere?
Despite the rise in in the number of tech and marketing blogs it becomes even harder to find original ideas. Most bloggers just mimic and point to the top blogs that we all read. We all do this sometimes and we usually throw in some additional commentary and add our own take on an idea. I just find it that with more people talking we're all saying the same thing.
I try to not just add to the noise and I know I could be doing a better job.
I have found some good blogs lately by going through my Twitter followers and clicking through to their site. This is very, very time consuming. I wish someone would develop a recommendation engine like Pandora for blogs.
Louis Gray used to do a monthly '5 blogs to check out' post' but he hasn't done one this year.
Setting up alerts in Google, searches in Twitter and filters in FriendFeed can help find new voices but, again, this is a very manual process.
Ironically I often find new bloggers while writing my blog posts. I use Zemanta and while I'm writing they use semantic data to recommend related posts. It would be great if they had a standalone service where you could enter a blog and find similar posts.
This is only going to become a bigger problem as blogs continue to take over the main stream and more verticals other than tech and marketing are effected (I couldn't imagine trying to find good mommy blogs).
If anyone knows of such a service please let me know.
If anyone is working on such a service please let me be a beta tester.
Do you have any tips for finding new relevant blogs?
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