from wired: MIT’s Media Lab

from wired:

MIT’s Media Lab is exper­i­ment­ing with a tool for index­ing the most pop­u­lar hyper­text links across thou­sands of weblogs and has ambi­tious plans to turn it into a resource for the mass media.

Launched last week, Blogdex is like a search-engine spi­der that vis­its about 9,000 weblogs a day look­ing for hyper­text links.

It extracts the links and ranks them by pop­u­lar­i­ty.