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"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
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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:
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
