Try to look up the number of blogs on the Internet, and you'll quickly find that the statistics vary widely: anywhere from 2 million to over 60 million, depending on who's counting.  Blogging is a cross between diary-writing and guerilla journalism, which makes tracking them an exercise in patience.

While it's easy to find a particular blog, browsing is much more difficult.  Although categorization schemas exist, most possess only top-level categories -- in other words, unless you have only a VERY vague idea of what you're looking for, browsing through such sites is not much easier than browsing through a basic search engine.

The idea behind Bloggapedia is a simple one: to provide a three-level category structure, as specific as necessary, to allow people to find exactly what they're looking for when they search for blogs.  Bloggers can add and categorize their own blogs, and visitors can suggest blogs for categorization.  We provide forums to network with other bloggers, tools and resources for blogging, and, of course, our own Bloggapedia blog.  There's a search function to allow visitors to find a specific blog, and even rate it.
   

We began by categorizing 1000 blogs -- a drop in a bucket, but you've got to start somewhere, right?  Emails were then sent out to these bloggers announcing the birth of Bloggapedia, and inviting them to view their listings on the site (and make any corrections or additions they thought necessary).  The number of users on Bloggapedia is rising every hour; we're currently up to 220 users, and that number will probably be outdated by the time this entry is posted.  Not bad at all, considering that we're less than a week old at this point.
 

So we'd like to give out a big Thank You! to everyone who is helping to make Bloggapedia a success.  Each and every person who comes to this site is valued, and we look forward to many successful years ahead!