All the Blogs without Fear or Favor
New site just launched that is sure to become the google of the blogs: <a href="http://www.blogsnow.com/">blogsnow</a> will track how many blogs are linking to different pages every ten minutes. It searches google, the IMDB, wiki, and the NYTimes.
At present, it is a means of accessing information you might not ordinarily have found your way to. But it has the potential to show what is popular: just click on the popular wiki links being blogged. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukkake">Bukkake</a> was especially revealing to me, since I live here in Japan (and, no, don't believe every kinky thing you here about Japan. sheesh.).