The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities. There are three award categories for blogs: Blog-Business, Blog-Culture/Personal, and Blog-Political.

The Weblog Awards are the world's largest blog competition.

The South African Blogosphere provides a searchable database, charts, directories and more.

BlogScope is part of a University of Toronto research project tracking over 35.55 million blogs with a total of over 760.77 million posts. BlogScope serves as an analysis and visualization tool providing a variety of charts, graphs, and widgets in order to better understand and view the blogosphere. You can also search for blogs by using search terms, and then can narrow the results to items such as photographs.

Search engine for blogs, twitter, myspace, images and more.

Technorati claims to be the leading blog search engine and most comprehensive information source with more than 1.5 million new blog posts indexed in real time. “If Google is the Web’s reference library, Technorati is becoming its coffee house.” Time Magazine