NITLE Blog Census is another metablog that find as many weblogs as they could, crawling and store them. They licensed their works under Creative Common licence. You could get their full database over here, as well as the URL and metadata of known weblogs.
This is nice and generous! It save months of hard work if you’re going to do some weblog analysis. They have crawled over 623,416 weblogs (across all languages), which should be good enough to be based for your topology study or any sort of discovery. Download the data, put your creative on it.
Moreover, based on the data, they have a statistic of market share of weblog tools. Market share of standalone tool like MT is way behind blog hosting service like blogspot.
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