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Feedster announced today that it has launched the Feedster Top 500, a new ranking of “the most interesting and important blogs in the U.S.” The ranking is based on number of inbound links over time and whether the blog has been updated recently, among other factors. It also eliminates “obvious” non-blogs that have appeared on other top blog lists and moves away from ranking based on which blogs have been around the longest.
The ranking has also left out professional news sites, aggregation systems, and “some fairly static websites that happened to have feeds but don’t feel bloggy,” said the creator of the Feedster Top 500, J. Scott Johnson.
This sort of filtering is a different screen than what Feedster uses to categorize news versus blogs in Feedster search, and is much more subjective, Johnson adds.
The Feedster Top 500 will be refreshed each month, and ranking methodology will remain fluid.
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