Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: July 2, 2008
Tags : blogged.com
Blog directory Blogged.com has relaunched as a Google News style service.
The new Blogged.com, described as a “news portal for the rest of us” offers a hand-picked selection (yes, manual, I queried this to be sure) of compelling stories and organizes them by relevant categories including tech, business, entertainment, sports, politics, etc.
The Blogged.com blog directory isn’t going away, even if the front of Blogged.com looks different. The company is also offering automatic matching and recommendations of new blogs through an a strategic alliance with MatchMine.
I had the chance to test the service prior to today’s launch. My main observation: it’s different. Not different in a bad way, but the results are different then what you’d usually get from a news style site. The lead stories on the tech page as I write this post are about YouTube videos on Orkut and a story about MySpace proxies. Not exactly leading news stories, but different. The sources were all new to me as well, so they aren’t just linking to the same old blogs. Even Australia’s own social communities expert Laurel Papworth gets a link on the front page. The risk of course with anything made by hand is that the results can quickly become stale, and there usually isn’t staff around to update the site 24/7, but for now we’ll see how it goes post launch.
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Jul 2, 2008
Hi eng1ne, this is Gladys Kong, co-founder of Blogged.com. First of all, thanks for your comment. When blogs are submitted to our site, we try to review them within 72 hours. For some reason we missed yours and I apologize for that. We have now rated your site. And just to clarify, stories are picked from both rated and unrated sites in our database, being rated is not a requirement for our editors when they choose their stories. Our stories are definitely hand-picked to showcase bloggers and their writings, but we have built a lot of tools to help our editors to do this efficiently. Please continue to check back with us and send us your feedback.
Jul 2, 2008
Gladys, thanks for picking up my comment and responding so quickly! I just noticed that my site has been reviewed, and I appreciate it. have displayed my blog rating (or, until today, un-rating) proudly in my site sidebar, so this is great news.
FYI, I submitted my site for review twice or more over the span of a few months, so you may want to review your procedure for looking at submitted blogs.