Ed Brill

Funny that you mention this. I just posted a blog titled: "BleedYellow Provides New Features for 173 Bloggers" related to the new blogging features in Connections 2.0: { Link }

Yes, there are 173 blogs hosted at BleedYellow. Many of them may just have one entry and others may have fizzled, but there are many with some great content there - I'm guessing most of those are already at PlanetLotus. Plus, one of the "fixes" with 2.0 is that you can now directly add your feed to PlanetLotus (see the post above on how to do that successfully - thanks for verifying that Yancy).

So, I will shamelessly make a plug here that if you have been shy about blogging or just holding back, don't! Feel free to register at www.bleedyellow.com and begin blogging today! :)

Let's see, download domino r8 software, shut down server, back it up, install R8, restart server. Not much to it really.

:-)

I wouldn't get too caught up in the number, at least the number over the past couple months. I went through a purge excise a couple weeks back de-listing any blog that hadn't posted in the past year or so. In the beginning I added anything I found. There was no way of knowing if they were active. They're still in the system, just not polling for updates and not listing the url. I plan on having a view of the delisted blogs, maybe someone can give then a nudge. This list will be in the same areas that shows off the new blogs in date order: { Link }

PS: Mitch Cohen did a fantastic job of outlining his Connections implementation. Here is part one: { Link } for those interested.

@Keith, Knowing that a part of your job is doing just that I can't get thoughts of the Maytag repair man sitting around doing nothing... twittering :).

Guess now would be a good time to start blogging :-)

And for those of you interested in blogging but not sure how if it's right for you or how to get started, I'm going to be holding a "Blogging 101" session on August 26th. Please see { Link } for the details.

All are welcome!

@Adam what a great idea!

Craig Wiseman had an interesting take on this post: { Link }

@1 nice one.

@3 I'm not caught up in "the" number, but 300 active makes a nice target.

@6 nice one.

Ed,

Unfortunately I sent in April to Yancy Lent the blog submission (Spanish Lotus User Group = SLUG) two or three times. But he never joined us to planetlotus.org. I can't understand why he has rejected our blog submission. He says that "the decision to post a blog rests with me". The SLUG site (Spanish language) is similar to the dominopoint.it (Italian language) site. Italian Notes users joined but Spanish's not. What a shame!

@Albert,

I have exactly one email from you and it is regarding the SLUG blog. The email indicates that i never responded to the message; I even checked my sent folder (I don't delete anything). This is a simple case of oversight, not a rejection. I'll have it up later today. Welcome to the Planet!... in advance.

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Somebody had to do it. ;-)

Now to go finally set up a blog...

I've been thinking a lot about starting blogging. My primary reason for doing so would be complete lack of Lotus coverage in the former-Yugoslavia countries.

Lotus is very well known and widely used in Slovenia, but that's not the case in the other countries.

I have spent many others thinking about language, content, company (we are IBM BP) vs. personal blog and things are starting to fall in place.

So, with a nudge from Lotus community to get me going, we might soon have the first Lotus blog in this part of the world.

It would be interesting to know how many of these blogs are hosted ON Notes.

I know many are, but some aren't. I also know of a few blogs hosted on Notes that aren't Notes related. I host 3 or 4 myself.

I wonder how well the blog templates are doing outside of the community?

The counter shows 300 now!