Scott Johnson announced the new list of Feedster's Top 500 blogs this week (and blogged about it here). I'm admiring the lovely--and clever--tag cloud of terms down the side of the (very long) list, but I'm even more interested in the unexpected blogs in the top 100--there are a whole lot of blogs I've never read, nor heard of--which makes me hope this is one way out of the big boys bubble chamber.

Some of the surprises (to me)
#18: Spacefem.com Feminist Of The Day

#19: flagrantdisregard
# 35: knittyBlog
#45: National Center for Science Education

Feedster's kindly provided an exportable file for Excel analysis--I'd love to see Tristan Louis analyze the breakdown of the Top 500 by software provided, network affiliation, etc.