So I find this to be really odd. At the WWW 2004 blogging ecosystem workshop, Cameron Marlow (blogdex) and Maciej Ceglowski (blogcensus) propose and present a new, open, blog indexing service, called upflux. Even though the service is vapor, there is zero mention of it in the blogosphere.
Nada, zip, zero. Or at least that's what Google, Yahoo!, Feedster, and Waypath say. I'd ask Technorati but they're down again.
At AIR 5.0, after Marc Smith's presentation on netscan, a service that's been archiving, indexing, and analyzing USENET for 5 years, that an open blogscan would be great. That's pretty much what upflux sounds like. Too bad it didn't get any traction. Especially since there's all these folks constantly complaining about how bad or evil Google and its ilk are.
Or maybe things are happening behind the scenes and I'm just fishing in the wrong ponds.