Not surprisingly, with AOL coming out with blogging software and Google buying Pyra Labs, Microsoft is checking it out. Dan Gillmor's eJournal blogs: "My colleague, Michael Bazeley, points me to Wallop, a project of the Online Lab at Microsoft Research's Social Computing Group.... " in Microsoft Experiments with Blogging and Social Software.
Rick has two RSS feeds on the front page of http://www.west-wind.com. Neither pass the Feed Validator check at http://www.feedvalidator.org because the feeds do not include email addresses. Isn't this just asking for a spam harvester to collect your address, though?