Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft Feeds Directory, a central location where you can find and subscribe to every RSS feed offered by the company across its multiple websites and blogs.

The official Google blog has been busy…

Every time I start pondering a blog topic for StraightUpSearch a feeling of venomous backlash comes over me; all I can think of are the many things the search engines get wrong and should improve upon for Paid Search Marketers.

I was listening to Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles yesterday; if memory serves, Slusher’s was the very first podcast I ever listened to, back around October 2004.

Podcasting is a great new medium, but creating a podcast is only half of the work. Promoting a podcast is equally critical to its success.

Author John Battelle announced the beta version of Federated Media’s advertising platform to enable ad clients to create their campaigns for FM’s network of high-quality blogs.

Through the Windows Presentation Foundation technology found in the forthcoming Vista operating system, Microsoft’s “Times Reader” will improve the newspaper’s online readability across multiple platforms.

The Gilbane Content Management Conference – The enterprise blogging panel was all about internal blogging – with two great speakers:

Todd Dunning tempts us to discuss his new tool by telling us we’d be “one of the very first” to point to it.

A recently released report by ZapThink touts the ability of DataDirect’s standards-based XQuery, a java component for integrating relational and XML data, to address the challenges involved in data integration and allow the user to determine runtime infrastructure.

The desktop blog tool from Lycos-Qumana works with Qumana Q-Ads integrated ad program to insert ads into blogs.

While controversial issues frequently attract attention they can also alienate potential customers.

There’s all sorts of buzz about blogs lately and yet so many companies are still wondering what to do about it.

A recent update to the Keyword Tool in AdWords allows advertisers to view additional information about keywords the client may wish to select for a campaign.

Shannon Clark of the meshforum conference just wrote me and reminded me about gada.be.

Brent Franson points to CenSEARCHip, a tool created by the University of Indiana School of Informatics, which compares search results for Google and Yahoo in different countries.

Ask wants you to take the “taste test” and compare their maps tool to Google’s and Yahoo’s.

A stand-alone implementation of Wordpress for the enterprise added several features while licensing the actively developed project under GPL terms.

Two major tools in the toolbox for many developers remain the Mac and Adobe Software. Logitech recently announced new tools for use with Macs and Adobe’s Creative Suite 2 (CS2), which consists of Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.

Over at the SEM 2.0 discussion group run by Andrew Goodman, there’s a thread about buying domain names that has been offering some excellent suggestions.

Business blogs are often referred to as being a fad. You know the line. It usually includes terms like “fad”, “personal diary”, “self important”, and of course “waste of time and resources”.