Resources for finding and evaluating blogs

There are so many blogs out there that sometimes it can be challenging to find out what you should be reading. Below are some specific sites we use to find blogs on particular topics and evaluate their impact. What do you use?

http://alexa.com/siteinfo
Enter one or more Web sites to get Web site traffic statistics, contact information, keywords, clickstream, demographics and related sites

http://alexa.com/siteowners
Site owner tools including edit your site data, site widgets, custom toolbars and Alexa data

http://www.google.com/reader/view/?hl=en&tab=by#directory-page
Discover and search for blog feeds using Google Reader. Learn how many subscribers a blog has and average number of posts per week. (Log onto your Google account > Google Reader > Browse for Stuff)

http://technorati.com/blogs/directory/
Technorati Blog directory using categories or keywords

http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/
Top 100 Blogs

~Nicole