Blog Explosion

The Ministry of Information thinks BlogExplosion has fizzled out. I'm not so sure. I think it's probably peaked, but it's not dead yet. I think it's possible to game their Blog Rocket promotion to get more hits than you surf random blogs.

What I'd like to see is a BlogExplosion-like link exchange system which, instead of serving up completely random blogs, does some sort of bayersian analysis comparing the text of your own blog with the ones it serves up; then you'd be more likely to see blogs covering subjects you're actually interested in. It would filter out all the angry rightwing bigots and vapid teenage diaries, unless you're actually interested in reading such things.

Actually, something that works in exactly the same way as a Bayersian spam filter would do the trick. All it would have to do would be to ask you to rate each blog as "good" or "bad", and it can filter blogs in the same way as a spam filter filters your email.