Jared, I was confused by the website your name linked to in your first comment. I see you’ve fixed that in your last comment and now it makes a lot more sense.:)
J. Stapley, I understand the time limitation and the desire to not list every joe-shmoe who starts a blog (whether it be because the content is just not that great or because they might be anti). I don’t have any hard feelings.
Not to criticize (ok, I am criticizing, but only in my most friendly manner), but I find the more static blog listings to be less than useful. After a month of using one of them, I transfered all of the web sites to Google reader which I can customize as I see fit. So it was a good starting point but with the amount of stuff out there, it’s nice to be able to personalize it to just what I’m interested in , as well as add sites that the blog listings are too busy to add–like Jared’s :). With the growth that is destined to happen in the bloggernacle, I think static blog listings maintained by human admins are going to get harder and harder to manage, and less and less relevant. I’m not saying Google reader is amazing, but it is a start and they are showing signs of doing cool things, like the new Recommended blogs feature.