Microsoft has certainly joined the blogosphere in a big way, whether it’s the or a host of developers (onsite and offsite). Much of the .

Ironically, however, a visit to the , which lists the most recent blog posts from the MSDN Microsoft clan, fails to turn up the famous XML (

) or RSS ( ) images. In fact, I have yet to find a master list of RSS feeds on Microsoft’s website, although points to some helpful feeds and resources. A turns up a page of and a with .

I did find a couple of RSS feeds on the and a link to a , but again without a group RSS feed for the list of blogs altogether. You have to visit each blog to find the RSS link. ’s black-on-blue is hard to see, demonstrating the disadvantage of diversity in weblog layout. My best guess is that the URLs just map to the blog software of choice for each author (ain’t the web grand?).

I did unearth a very cool gem while digging through the MSDN blogs, though. pointed to a ! Talk about cool! I’d only heard legends about the guy, you know, Booch Notation, the “Three Amigos,” UML, Rational, etc. He has a blog–how cool is that? And he also , which I think I will add to my .

Then there’s also ’s “”, or in his words:

A cross between a blog and wiki of my partly-formed ideas on software development

I need to come back to absorb the essence of his bliki approach to publishing. Fortunately, his hybrid approach still offers an . And, of course, .

Bottom line: Microsoft should make it easy to , including a link on their .

Update: I found (after much searching) a page which lets you . It serves up RSS feeds and OPML for categories of blogs.