Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system.

It’s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly growing outside of the realm of early adoptors and tech geeks.

Sure, bloggers still fall within that umbrella, somewhat, but as adoption of the Digg system continues to grow among services like Deals.com or Yahoo Answers, social media becomes more and more relevant to the rest of the Internet.