Six Apart is finally doing something with its Blogs.com domain. It is creating, well, yet another blog directory. And I do mean that in the early-days-of-Yahoo sense: it will be edited by a small group of about five human editors, and will feature top-ten blog lists from the likes of Web celebs such as Marc Andreessen and Craig Newmark (Michael is still working on his).
This is not a comprehensive blog directory like Technorati or even a meme tracker like Techmeme. It will launch covering only 1,200 blogs. Six Apart CEO Chris Alden tells me that his goal is not to compete with other blog directories so much as to offer a service that will help blogs in general (because that helps Six Apart as a provider of blogging software).
How good is it? We don’t know because we haven’t played with it yet. But judging from some screenshots that we did obtain, it looks like a fairly standard media hub. It breaks up the blogosphere into business, entertainment, news & politics, life, technology (shouldn’t that be first?), student life (yawn), and top 10 lists. On its homepage, it will highlights posts from each of the categories, as well as one big write-up focussed on the hot discussion topic of the day..
Given that blogs.com generates a ton of natural traffic based on its URL alone, it should provide yet one more way to get a traffic boost for the blogs that are featured. (Just don’t expect a massive Yahoo Buzz-type boost any time soon).
Here are the screenshots. The home page:
The Entertainment Section:
And a top ten blog list:
Who cares! We want to hear more about bigfoot.
Hahahaha Yeah… Where is Bigfootcrunch.com ??? LOL
This domain is actually available ! ROFL
Bigfoot LIVES! So sad they never showed the possum-ape creature to the public
blogs.com – sounds promising
Small number of editors hand-selecting blogs for inclusion… sounds like 9rules (my site) to me. Lame.
Got any more big foot??
I can’t believe I didn’t get a Twitter account until just yesterday! And I’m already addicted! I’m at: http://twitter.com/Eleclion
No one wants to follow you.
What’s a “meme tracker”?
A meme tracker tracks memes.
GENIUS!
My blog is a TypePad blog I hope they choose to include me.
Do you use directories?
http://www.FliteRecord.com
Hmm, I wonder how this compares to Blogged.com. http://www.blogged.com
What are some other blog directories?
Thx,
Eric
The Blogger & Podcaster Guide — http://www.thebpguide.com
I wonder just how exclusive the list will be because though these blogs are “hand-picked”, the list is already 1,200 blogs long (and that’s just to start).
It would interesting to see something new – like a Digg for up and coming blogs. Yes, I know that articles are “voted” up and down everyday, but it would interesting to see some sort of system that rates blogs in their entirety rather than basing them on one or two lame top-ten lists…
With WordPress taking off the lack of focus at Six Apart is pretty amazing – doing a content site is a waste of resources.
1200 – that sounds like a very small number. I wonder how long they will maintain that number.
I think 1200 is small of number.
Does anyone know the blog categories?
The design looks a lot similar to the new Last.fm
At least colors and typo.
As much as Type Pad is dedicated to blogs it really does not care about blog SEO…they still cut off full titles in the post address.