Most popular links appearing in blogs today: Google just announced their new RSS Reader, called Google Reader. It's browser-based (of course) and has similar look n' feel to Gmail. Very Ajaxy… Oh great, now we get another list where the same old folks get to get around and give each other a proverbial pat on the back. Who is on CNET's flavor of the top 100 blogs?… Weblogs.com gets acquired by Verisign!… USA Today has an interesting article on the growing business of growing diamonds… Al-Jazeera, which is launching an English-language network with Washington as a major hub, has landed its first big-name Western journalist: David Frost. And the veteran BBC interviewer says he's perfectly comfortable with the unlikely marriage…