ConnectBlogs (Version 2)

I apologize that I haven’t posted in a while; I’ve been pretty busy with a number of things: my day job as website manager at Overstock, a lot of website contracting and consulting work in the evenings, my usual slew of volunteer projects, and most recently (and notably) setting up the new version of ConnectBlogs –which is not live yet, but should be very soon.

ConnectBlogs will be moving to more of a syndication model, which I believe is more in line with what the Utah blogging community (myself particularly) expected. So in addition to the current “resident writers”, the upcoming version of ConnectBlogs will encourage Utah bloggers to post on their own blogs and have their content aggregated based on how they tag (or categorize) it. ConnectBlogs will be an ad-free gesture to the Utah business and tech communities. We’ll get your content in front of a lot of people, and we’ll also provide plenty of backlinks.

So if you’re a Utah business or technology blogger and would like be included in ConnectBlogs, drop me a line with your name, URL, and feed URL (if you know it). There are some basic (and yet unpublished) rules on what and who can be syndicated, but I think most people who read this will qualify.

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categories Business, Technology, Utah | datetime February 9, 2007 6:39 am

3 Comments

  • By nick, February 10, 2007 @ 12:38 am

    Jordy -

    I’m currently one of the few who isn’t syndicated. Oddly enough, I have no desire to start a blog. Will those like me still be able to post directly into the feed?

    nick

  • By Jordy, February 10, 2007 @ 8:49 am

    @Nick

    You’ll post exactly how you were, except the domain will be hosted.connectblogs.com. From there, your posts will be syndicated to the main connectblogs.com site. (And if ever you decide you want to break free and do your own, I’d be happy to set one up for you.)

  • By nick, February 12, 2007 @ 2:55 pm

    @Jordy

    Cool. Thanks. I have another feature request – limit the posts to the first 10 lines on the front page of connectblogs.com – that way the long post on top of mine doesn’t bury my post.. make it so people can click into it for the long description. That would be really cool, so that more than 1 post was displayed above the fold on the main page…

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