Google News is a very comprehensive news aggregation of both news sources (4500 in total), as well as blogs.

Since part 1 of blogging is listening (part 2 being responding), you need to find easy ways to listen to what your customers are saying. Searching the web is an inefficient use of time. Google News is a great alternative.

You can subscribe to Google News search words or phrases (e.g. "blog" or "web 2.0") very easily. Just look for this in the sidebar:

You can receive News Alerts via email or can click on "RSS" and use this to add the search phrase to your blog reader (such as Bloglines). All updates will come right to you. Listening has never been easier.