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What’s Up With Featured Blogs?
WordPress.com provides the capability for users to browse blog posts by clicking on a subject tag. After clicking on a tag of interest, the results page displays a bunch of blog posts that authors have marked with that tag. As the (egotistical and self-serving) screen snippet below illustrates, the first listed blog post at the top of the page is somehow designated as the “featured blog“.
Out of curiosity (which is judged as a sin inside of most religious and corpo institutions), I briefly searched for the criteria/algorithm that wordpress.com uses to select the “featured blog” of the day, but I couldn’t find it. However, I did find a bunch of vain, self-congratulatory posts just like this yawner.
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Bulldozer00's Blog 
Came here trying to figure out the same thing. Apparently it’s whoever has the most posts on a subject. (Don’t quote me. I got that from another guy’s post. http://tagn.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/messing-with-wordpresscom/) Unless it is a really popular subject. So we can still be proud of ourselves because we are prolific writers on obscure subjects. Or at least on subjects that others have called by different names. Which means that we are creative taggers. Still a win.