A-lists and the dynamic blogsphere 
I've been reading about the recent "to list or not to list" debate and Jason Calcanis, in the “The Blog 500” Challenge post, explains well some of the defects of the technorati 100 list.
Blogs are highly dynamic by nature and their being appealing has much to do with this dynamism.
| Therefore it has not much sense to describe the importance of blogs as an absolute value. I may well write amusing things this week but be absolutly dull for the next few months. |
| The "interest index" of a blog has to be measured including a time factor in it. |
We can say that some blogs have been more important (interesting) in the last x days, or better in the last y hours.
| It would be nice to be able to choose personally the time resolution of the list (last day, last week, last month and so on). |
| The number of links and number of sources pointing to a post might be marks of relevance, at least they can be a starting point. |
| In this way we could measure how interesting the things someone wrote in a certain time frame have been for the rest of the blogsphere. |
Even more interesting would be to tie the "interest index" to ones' subscriptions, e.g. by considering only the links going out from the blogs i subscribe to, or by giving a higher weight to those links.
| This might result in a personal list or better in a new approach to feeds consumption along the lines described by Scoble here |
While the key to blogging is to write things which appeal to you, and you find relevant, the key to reading blogs is to find things that are interesting to you. How to find those seems to be an open problem.
