One of the reason I visit certain blogs daily is because I use them as moderated blog filters to blogs I subscribe to indirectly.  I don't know how many blog feeds "Dave" subscribes to, but by subscribing to "Dave"'s Scripting News blog feed, I am in-effect subscribing to all the blogs he is subscribing to except I rely on him to filter out uninteresting stuff like a client-side news editor.  By subscribing to these hub blogs, I can keep abreast of what many thousands of people are thinking and doing daily.  Isn't that great or what?  I predict that we'll soon think nothing of paying money to subscribe to those hub blogs.

Blogspace needs a directory of hub blogs organized by topics.  Recognizing a hub blog is easy enough.  A hub blog has a large number of subscribers and links to other blogs.  A hub blog's topics can be either inferenced by content and links or specified explicitly.

I hate sideway moves like today's because such patterns tend to extend declines both in distance and in time.  I am convinced that Dow will test 7500 in the near term.