There were a lot of questions that were asked that require outside links to resources. Also, a lot of tools and systems were mentioned that should require some mention. It's hard to capture all, but here's a shot.
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Feedburner.com - measurable syndication of RSS feeds
Technorati.com
PubSub
Scrappleface Blog
Newsgator
FeedDemon
Further explanations on RSS
Relationship management consortium (think this is the UMich?)
Link for Audioblog service
Peter Jackson King Kong Blog