Blogdex

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Blogdex was an online resource for understanding hot topics of discussion in the blogosphere.

The site offers a time-weighted list of links to online content cited by more than one monitored blog in the recent past. Each link receives a score based both on the number of different blogs citing it and recency of those citings; the list thus typically features both popular oddities of the day as well as informative and/or controversial source material for current topics of public debate.

As the previous owner of the domains blogdex.com, blogdex.net and blogdex.org, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales offered the domains to MIT free of charge for use in this project. Blogdex then migrated from the original blogdex.media.mit.edu location to blogdex.net.

Blogdex was created to facilitate the academic research of site creator Cameron Marlow as a Ph.D. student at MIT. He has worked for Yahoo! since 2005.

Blogdex is offline since May 2006.