Blog of the Week

jkOnTheRun

James Kendrik's jkOnTheRun looks at the world through a mobile filter. Providing sometimes in-depth reviews of mobile technologies, this blog is clearly the work of someone with both knowledge and passion about the needs and interests of mobile users.

Google Blog Search

Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and they hope Blog Search will help their users to explore the blogging universe more effectively. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.

It's del.icio.us

A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your
list and categorize them.

Want to know what your neighbors are blogging about?

Check out Blogdigger.com to see what your friend and neighbors are writing about on their bog sites.

Guide Aims to Help Bloggers Beat Censors

A Paris-based media watchdog has released a free guide with tips for bloggers and dissidents to sneak past Internet censors in countries from China to Iran.

Here's the guide in PDF.

Psst: Want to Know My Net Worth?

Elizabeth Harris for The New York Times wrote this interesting article about Jim Wang, a software engineer, who used his blog to document his quest to save for a down payment on his first home.

New Search Engines Help Users Find Blogs

In a recent article out of the Wall Street Journal, there's a race on to become the Google of blogs.

Web logs, online diaries written and published by everyone from college students to big media companies, are being created and updated at an astonishing rate. A handful of closely held startups see an opportunity: Build a search engine that can track the information zipping through blogs, nearly in real time.

Check out the list here:
Bloglines
DayPop
Feedster
Ice Rocket
Technorati