Gary Bourgeault of Alphamarketer reports from a Hitwise analysis that Google has taken over Technorati for searches of blogs. He relates it to a simplification of the Google Blog Search user interface, taking the user to the search results page with one fewer click.
So make sure that your blog pings the Google Pinging Service to [...]

Mike Gotta has a short list of some risks to confidentiality that employee use of RSS (and social bookmarking sites) can develop:

If these sites (Bloglines, NewsGator Line, del.icio.us and such) are being frequented often by employees, that could be an leading indicator that business and IT workers might benefit from these tools internally. An [...]

Wikipedia has announced its top 10 citations for 2006, which this year is topped by "Web 2.0". The list still includes "blog", and "RSS" showing the growth of interest in understanding these words & technologies.
Advertising Age:

"Still not entirely sure how to explain Web 2.0 to your friends? You weren’t alone in 2006. In a fitting [...]