Amalgamation | clagnut/blog

Amalgamation posted 10th May 2002

Blogdex is a project of the MIT media laboratory built to ‘harness the power of personal news, amalgamating and organizing personal news content into one navigable source’.

Translated this means it trawls approx 12,000 weblogs and lists which links are most popular at the moment – the key here is that it only looks for new content.

Note to self: …to check out Joe “Accessibility” Clark’s web various weblogs: Axxlog: Links-and-commentary blog on accessible media NUblog: Links-and-commentary blog on online content and everything that entails. Written in a somewhat affected third person. …
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