Nice post. The MyBlogLog team has been doing a lot of thinking about the very concepts you write about and it is something I posted about when we made an enhancement to the Hot in My Communities listing which, in my mind, is one of our best hidden features.

http://everwas.com/2007/09/mybloglog-more-than-just-faces-on-a-page.html

Stay tuned on the concept of using your social network as a filter - there’s more to come!

John Tropea has followed his list of 20 blogs with “Blog network as your social filter” where he says he really doesn’t need to know what blogs I read. Rather, with several good social filters, it is fairly easy to get a good picture of what is hap…