Blogged.com is a newly launched blog directory that offers ratings, reviews, and comments on a categorized list of popular blogs. It also offers a social network community that allows bloggers and readers with similar interests to connect with each other where readers can discover interesting blogs, and bloggers can discover who their readers are. You will have to sign up and provide some basic information to use the social network to connect to other blog readers.

Blogged.com is a editorially rates blogs where each blog is rated in relevant categories in a 1-to-10 scale. You can submit your blog here, and the Blogged editing team will rate, review and categorize your blog. Editor reviews are based on Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style. Blogs are compared to other blogs within the same category. So far the directory has got over 200,000 blogs which have been rated and reviewed by the Blogged editing team.

Each blog will have its own page, with a thumbnail image, blog URL, a short description, tags, review score, and the latest posts from the blog feed. There’s also a list of related blogs. Readers can also rate the blogs, comment and submit their favorite blogs. Registered users can keep a listing of their reviews, friends, favorite blogs, shared blogs, and comments.

Blog authors can get a widget to put on their blogs that lets readers to rank their sites as well. To add the widget to your blog, simply click on the “Show this rating on your blog!” link and select the widget size you like. Then copy the code and paste it into your blog.