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.

BNN/Virginia adds new bloggers

BlogNetNews' David Mastio reported Saturday that they have been busy adding new blogs to the system. In a post to the aggregator, he listed eight bloggers who have joined the BNN/Virginia network.

Adding new features and bloggers, BNN continues to grow and grow and grow....

Dave Mastio & Black Velvet Bruce Li in Washington Post article

A Washington Post article that was reprinted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch quoted Dave Mastio of BlogNetNews talking about the most influential blogs in the Virginia blogosphere.

Dave, who keeps track of over 200 political blogs in Virginia, cited Black Velvet Bruce Li as the most influential conservative blog in Northern Virginia, and said it's a sign of success when blogs are mimicked by others:

"In the blogosphere, attention is the coin of the realm. Blogs survive on controversy ..."

Greg Letiecq, aka Black Velvet Bruce Li, has seen a copycat blog sprout up to mock his strong stand against illegal immigration. He is not deterred. Read the entire article.