Belated apologies for the problems with my interface, everyone!

Lisa Stone — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:47:34 -0600

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Links fixed

Elisa Camahort — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:35:20 -0600

OK, I fixed the links.

Thanks guys.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer and Worker Bees
elisa@blogher.org/elisa@workerbees.biz

sorry to interject here, but divabat is correct.

Melinda Casino — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:30:42 -0600

(Sorry, I know you're addressing divabat, Elisa, but I noticed the same thing yesterday morning when I read Lisa's piece. The links in her post have quotes at the end of the urls, so the links do not work.

I meant to email Lisa or post here about it... "life" got on top of me.)

Melinda

divabat: what links are you talking about?

Elisa Camahort — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:24:54 -0600

Are you talking only about some of the links in Lisa's post above? Or around the site? I notice what you're talking about in this post, but not anywhere else.

Thanks!

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer and Worker Bees
elisa@blogher.org/elisa@workerbees.biz

Tech problems

Tiara Shafiq — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:05:53 -0600

Good job on the site, but just to let you know: the links all point to " instead of an actual link.

Fantastic job!

Mary Tsao — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:26:08 -0600

Your hard work shows. The site is both technically and editorially top notch, and already one of my daily reads.
Mary

Mom Writes

Congratulations!

Busy Mom — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:53:57 -0600

What wonderful, deserving compliments you have received!

Busy Mom Blog

BlogHer Beta Update 1

Lisa Stone — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 03:21:44 -0600

"BlogHer's like a fairy godmother mafia...Check out the bajillion blogs written by women and organized by topic." - Jarah Euston

"The new BlogHer site is up. Looks impressive. It's hard to imagine how this won't end up being a force online." - Will Femia, MSNBC.com

>more...

I should really call this post "Drinking from the firehose: Week 1." Keeping up with you all has been a challenge! In the past week, this community:

1. Launched
2. Grew to 556 new members
3. Contributed 1,295 new blogs to the BlogHer Blogrolls
4. Published 586 posts of superb quality by these fantastic editors
5. Talked-plenty. We've made 709 comments so far (not including email)
6. Scrambled to lighten the load on our database
7. Collected everyone's feedback on how to improve on the Blogher Beta. And we're far from done

Detail:
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I've helped launch blog networks before; as have Jory (here), and Elisa (here and here). But those projects allowed for sleep and meals. Not BlogHer. Here are some details:

1. Launch

I'm like a broken record, but I must say it again: pingvision developer Laura Scott has been an absolute dream. She's responsive, strategic, and up before I am. Dreamy.

2. Grew to 556 new members

Welcome! Your rapid growth inspired us to create new ways to find other BlogHer members:

BlogHer Members directory, where the newest members show up first (look in the upper left-hand corner of the page for this link)

Introduce yourself! While comments are more popular so far, we opened this forum as an extra invitation to join in.

3. Contributed 1,295 new blogs to the BlogHer Blogrolls

This is the job that hurts so good -- the task of making sure that BlogHer does not morph into SpamHer requires that Elisa, Jory and I confirm that each blog recommended to the BlogHer Blogrolls matches our checklist. The lion's share do fit the bill- but there are are a lot of them! So we're at work on a few options for improvement, including naming a couple of blogroll editors from among our volunteers. Stay tuned. And stay up to date on the latest additions, including the homepage feature that shows the ten blogs most recently added to the network.

4. and 5. Published 586 posts of superb quality by these fantastic editors and elicited 709 comments.

Amazing writing, people, in your comments and original posts. You've broken news and improved coverage in the past week on this site. I'll be writing more on this topic...

6 and 7. We've experienced a few SQL glitches as we work to sand all corners on this site. Laura continues to work to reduce how hard we hit the database during peak load hours.

The other biggest glitch of the week is, unsurpringly, a human error committed by me - I asked Laura to map my Lisa@blogher.org address to an email address I rarely use. (I knew those sudafed and Robitussin cocktails would get me into trouble.) My apologies - I owe a number of folks an email! Once I'm caught up, we'll begin thinking about some of the other burning issues you've raised in your comments about the site and how to improve it.

Thank you again for all your time and interest.

Best,
L

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