Congrats, BlogNetNews!

Dave Mastio with Blog Net News shared the good news:

A little while back, we began tracking how many visitors went from BNN’s main site, the rss feeds BNN produces and the headline widgets that hundreds of bloggers all over the country have put on their sites. The weekly numbers have been astounding and last night, they reached a new record, more than 260,000 as of 11:59 est last night.

That means BNN is sending more visitors to bloggers than leftyblogs, the only other site I know that reveals the number (let me know if there are more that do it). And we’re beating them by a factor of ten — more than a million visits a month.

We are truly a blogging community that has gone nationwide, thanks to Dave and Blog Net News. With the new, faster, more intuitive version of BNN ready to launch, the sky is the limit.

Thanks for all your hard work, Dave.

Congrats, Krystle!

She's at the top of the Blog Net News influence rankings this week and going strong! Congrats to Krystle over at Crystal Clear Conservative for being # 1! I'm sending warm congratulatory wishes her way because I discovered at the Republican Advance that Krystle does not like cold weather.

Krystle, Jason Kenney, and I were attending the New Media Saturday afternoon session at the Republican Advance earlier this month when my daughter sent a text: "It's snowing outside." I immediately wrote that message on a piece of paper and showed it first to Jason, then to Krystle.

Krystle wrote back, "Not ready for snow! Warm weather please! :) "

I responded, "Let it snow ... let it snow ... let it snow!" and drew a picture of a snowman.

She wrote back, "Palm trees, beaches, sunshine, and a great breeze. My type of weather."

So here's to tropical breezes and palm trees for you, Krystle! Keep up the good work in the Virginia blogosphere.

BlogNetNews election coverage

Dave Mastio has another post up about one of the newer features from Blog Net News ... Election 2008 coverage. Good things coming from BNN.

Blog Net News adds new features!

More tools for political junkies!

Besides being a gateway to the political blogosphere in each of the 50 states -- and I've already checked out the Minnesota blogosphere, home of the Republican National Convention in September -- Blog Net News has other features to help with the upcoming election season.

After weeks of testing, BNN added a major update ... now you can search all 50 states' political blogospheres from one widget.

Two other new features include www.blognetnews.com/elections and be sure to check out www.blognetnews.com/whitehouse08.

And, of course, don't forget BNN's Righty Blogs where all the right-of-center political blogs can be found including some that do not show up in the regular BNN aggregator.

Our thanks to Dave Mastio and crew for the great internet tools and gadgets they provide to those of us who are political junkies and always looking for another way to satisfy that political fix.

Blog Net News continues to add new features

Dave Mastio has added new features to Blog Net News that will continue to make it a useful research tool for bloggers. Here is what BNN had to say about it:

BNN has something new we hope you'll think is cool and maybe find useful. You can find it at BNN/FeedCentral.

In short, you can pick any section of BNN, then slice and dice it by blog, by category, by key words, then sort the new feeds by popularity (most linked, most clicked, most commented) and then have it delivered to your cell phone, your RSS reader, your email (hourly update or daily summary) your blackberry or a custom widget on your web page.

For instance, here's the RSS feed of the most clicked posts from Iowa blogs about the current battle between Hillary and Obama ...

... or a feed to track the most recent wisdom from New Hampshire bloggers on Romney's religion.

The element of this that I am most proud of is our partnership with BuzzMob.com. Working together, we're making blogs available in a way they never have been before and hopefully expanding the reach of blogs and the blogosphere another important step.

It is exactly this sort of thing that I had in mind when I founded BNN. By combining smart, human-edited aggregation with cutting edge technology we can make the blogosphere more useful to more people at the same time we help build readership for the best blogs.

I hope you'll help us spread the word.

Dave Mastio

BlogNetNews.com
We Serve Blogging

Sounds as if BNN does not intend to be just an aggregator ... it is striving to be the # 1 tool for bloggers' use to stay updated and use in their research.