I’ve been wasting time looking at interesting metablogs and here’s what i found.
Kuroshinhas a classification of bloggers. There’s another one, based on D&D character types at the Blogger Bestiary. But my favorite is an addition to the Kuroshin list, posted here
Research Blogger (Reblogger)
Percentage of blogger population: 1.634%
Hours spent blogging: 10/week (varies heavily with approaching deadlines)
Habitat: Typically found at a desk somewhere in an university department, often sharing a room with other students, although quite a few are known to also blog from home. Rebloggers however also travel and take the opportunity to blog from other universities and conference venues.
Average Age: MA level Rebloggers in their early twenties, while PhD Rebloggers are approaching their thirties with alarming speed.
Favorite hangout: Air-L
Last Book Read: Postmodernism: A Reader.
Favorite Offline Activities: Movies and books.
Mode of Dress: Casually, although this varies with geographic location: the northern countries displaying a much shabbier appearance than more southern countries.
If taxonomy isn’t your thing, Google Fight lets you find which keywords get the most mentions in Google. For example, Hell (8.4 million) beats out Paradise (3.8 million) and Instapundit(55000) edges out “Andrew Sullivan” (51 000). Of course, I tried a few contests of my own, but I’m not telling you the results. Pick your own favorite pundits/bloggers and let them duke it out!
And here’s a site where people list weird search requests and comment. Most are obscene, but here’s a clean one:
Search: I want a duck with islamic words written in it
Response: Huh?
Boilerplate: Discuss the search request found in Al-Muhajabah’s log files on 11/3/02; 11:15:10 PM.