This website is the mecca of all blog sites.  Like the google rating, technorati allows users to search for the most used and visited blogs on the net.  Using the number of hits a given blog recieves and the number of links to that blog, the site calculates a ranking for the "best" blogs on the net.  The political rankings are most interesting becuase they are varied.  Some are conservative, some are liberal, some religious, and all the top ones are connected to quasi-intellectuals.  This seems to be one of the few ways to gauge the number of blogs being visited and the content that most bloggers are looking for.

This article talks about technorati.com, a blog tracker which keeps up on the number of hits and trackbacks a given blog possesses.