Included below are a few excerpts from the November 20 newslog entry at Blogdex. Thus far, Blogdex's content has been highly predictible, but these improvements could change things.

crawling upgrade: the crawler is currently being optimized, so that within a few weeks we hope to have up to the hour statistics on weblogs. we've realized that daily is not good enough, and that prediction will have to be a much bigger part of our crawl scheduling.

social network: for the past month we've been developing and testing a new sort of view of the weblog community based on the social network. i can't say exactly what kind of interface we plan to put on it (since we haven't thought of it yet), but i can say that it's very interesting data. something that has come up often: the weblog community has 5.818 degrees of separation, based on current information. more to come.. soon..