Hopefully we will soon get some decent tools (in multiple languages) that follow Consumer Generated Media. here are some sites that I use when I use blogs for research. Some are more up-to-date then others and there are usually more duplicates than not. my first choices are technorati and google. I often search in foreign languages and these often do not include blogs by certain providers. http://www.pubsub.com/ http://www.icerocket.com/ http://www.blogdigger.com/ these sites give more information on what people are talking about "buzz" http://buzz.yahoo.com/ http://www.digg.com/ http://blogniscient.com/ then there are other sites that look into discussion groups and message boards. google http://boardreader.com/ http://forumfind.com/ http://boardtracker.com/ ---------------------------------------------------- Liz Whippo Siris Media Factory srl www.siris.com Milan, Italy