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Blogged.com has officially launched today. It's a blog directory of sorts, providing an online directory for all the blogs in the world. There are a number of blog search tools out there that help you find content across online publications, like technorati, which aim to bring you real-time content on a variety of topics, but Blogged.com is more of a catalog that offers information on the entire blog and its overall content.
It has even incorporated some weighted crowdsourcing into its promotion of certain blogs, in that Blogged editors offer their top pics, but these pics are "overthrown" in a sense once enough users have added their two cents. This is incorporated through ratings, and other feedback tools found throughout the site. What's more, is Blogged can be used as a way to find the blogs that often discuss a particular topic or another blog itself.
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In all, Blogged is more along the lines of BlogCatalog than technorati, so its primary topic is likely going to be the average web user that recognizes blogs too have a wealth of information across various topics. So in that regard I find Blogged could be a potential way to bridge the gap between a typical consumer searching for info on the web and the blogs out there that haven't become part of the average online publication lineup.