Feedster launches a challenger to the Technorati 100. Kudos for making the raw data available, although what little is known about the ranking algorithm still leaves it pretty opaque.
Some of the squawking about who is and isn't on the list reminds me of two things: 1) the definition of a weblog is a bit tricky, 2) some folks need to be on a list, any list, to prop up their own self-esteem.
I'm not with Jeff Jarvis on much, but tools that focused on surfacing small worlds, would be much more useful