If one does not only search with dominant search engines, but wants to get the spikes of the blogosphere, the Technorati search can filter the meme smog and deliver by keyword, URL or tag.

The service deals with 80,000 new weblogs a day. At the time of the London bombing, over 1.2 Million posts were made according to Sifry's Alerts. The Technorati CEO's tag can be followed on the latest developments.

Net Rage: A Study of Blogs and Usability can be viewed or downloaded.The study was completed this month and features amongst many other topics many insights about interface design.

For the users of social bookmarks, such as del.icio.us, there is now 'tags for two' available. Bookmark for your secial person only. A VC provides a brief explanation how you can make it work.

The word 'blog' is up to be trademarked by a Californian company.