Matt Galloway hits on many great ideas in his post about influential bloggers.

It is quite simple: (good) bloggers = Influentials

To stay ahead of the curve:

1. Find your blog influentials
2. Listen
3. Repeat step 2

Why I blog this? Now that we have this huge blogosphere to play in we need to start data mining the meta-data it generates. Information overload is my new problem - high quality information at that. I am reading over 500 feeds now. It is become overwhelming - too many blogs to remember/manage in my head. So, how exactly should I be identifying blog influentials? This I do not know. As far as I can tell, identifying blog influentials programmatically is an as-of-yet untapped area with growth potential.

How exactly do we identify blog influentials?

via The Basement, BusinessWeek, RatcliffeBlog

It is good to see that Mitch is still keeping busy playing with interesting ideas. I posted about Mitch’s RatcliffeBlog and MyDensity a couple of times (1, 2) back in March.