Business Week has some of the most interesting podcasts around. Their cover story podcast is often quite entertaining especially since the host, Business Week’s executive editor John Byrne, has a sceptical and humorous interviewing technique.

Another BW offering is the CEO’s guide to technology which featured a Tim O’Reilly interview earlier this summer. Tim is quite candid regarding the “web 2.0″ buzzword and he makes some interesting points regarding the tech industry.

Moving from business to technology, another podcast I recently discovered is The Linux Action Show. These guys are of the pragmatic school of Linux (as opposed to the more ideological one) and are defectors from OS X.

Other interesting podcasts include the various BBC offerings (most notably Digital Planet, In Business and Melvin Bragg’s In Our Time) and finally IT Conversations.

Google is now allowing the creation of custom search engines via personalised search. At the Ruby Inside blog, Peter Cooper has provided a much needed service with Google Ruby Search.

Extremely useful.

Ever since Google made Google Trends available I’ve been meaning to blog about one of the first searches I typed in. Jack Schofield at the Guardian Technology blog beat me to it at the time. It’s the last link in his article. The trend I meant to blog about is the difference between the Linux distributions Ubuntu and Suse (Jack throws in Fedora for good mesure).

Another trend which might be interesting to watch is Microsoft’s new CTO Ray Ozzie. Checking out the trend for Ray vs. the dynamic Google duo is interesting.