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All the blog search engines permit sort by date in addition to sort by relevance.
Date sorting works perfectly well with weblogs, which (unlike webpages) have
date/time tags.
Blogdigger
Blog Search Engine
Blogwise
Bloogz
Clusty Blog Metasearch
Daypop
Feedster
Google Blogsearch
IceRocket
Sphere
The Diarist Registry
Technorati
http://www .blogdigger.com/
http://www.blogsea rchengine .com/
http://www.blogwise.com/
http://www.bloogz.com/
http://blogs .c1usty.com/
http://www.daypop.com/
http://www.feedster.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/
http://blogs.icerocket.com/
http://www.sphere.com/
http://www.diarist.net/reg istry/
http://www .technorati .com/
There are as many potential blogs as there are people willing to create and maintain
them. Quite honestly, most are as dull as ditchwater. However, there is a type of
blog-or perhaps it's more accurate to say, a type of blogger-that is inherently
interesting: the insider. For example, there are several hundred Microsoft employees
who are blogging, and a lot of what they are talking about is directly related to
Microsoft products that are still in the planning stages. "Prolific Microsoft blogger
Robert Scobie mentioned Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 (and complained that
the real name was far less interesting than the codename Lone Star)."135 A few days
after his blog entry appeared, Microsoft officially announced that the service pack
Tablet PC is tied to wouldn't be out as planned by June (the last month of the
Microsoft fiscal year) but was being delayed until at the earliest July 2005, when
Microsoft's 2005 fiscal year begins. Other Microsoft bloggers have discussed such
things as technical details of work with the latest developer tools, Longhorn (which
became Vista, the current Windows as for desktop PCs) architecture, and how
features are developed for Microsoft products like Word.
Microsoft has definitely taken a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" attitude towards
blogs (so far). In 2004 the company went so far as to launch Channel 9, a website
that combines blogs, discussion forums and other technology to improve
communications with developers. Channel 9 refers to the audio channel many
135 "Inside Track, " The Guardian, 20 May 2004,
(14 November 2006).
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