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OK, so it has been a while since we “teased” you with the news of big changes. Well, today is the day we deliver.We are proud to announce the new Blogged.com site.  Our new site has been completely revamped to highlight bloggers and their unique perspectives.  We’ve created a place for people to get news and information that you may not see in mainstream news sources.

A news portal for “the rest of us” that amplifies voices across the blogosphere by hand-picking the most compelling stories and organizing them by relevant categories such as tech, business, entertainment, sports, politics, etc. We are actively monitoring the blogosphere and bringing you the most fun and interesting posts.We hope you like this new direction and find that it useful. If you don’t, shoot an email over to support@blogged.com and let us know your thoughts.

The Blogged Team

We’re working on something big! It’s coming soon.

So, what is it?

Well, we can’t tell you. Not yet. So you’re just going to have to keep coming back.

We’re a such a tease.

Need a little help finding new blogs? If you go to your Blogged profile page and click on the “recommended” tab we can help you out.

By telling us what kind of blogs you’re interested in (sports, entertainment, etc.) we can recommend good quality blogs in those areas that you might not know about. The more you use it, the better the recommendations.

Here’s how to get started using the tool:

1) Go to the “recommended” tab on your profile page to get started.

2) Tell us what you love and don’t love:

3) Discover new blogs:

It’s that easy. Try it out once, twice, all the time.

We made searching for blogs just a little bit easier.

We tinkered with the tags to give you better results. So next time you’re browsing through blogs go ahead and click on a tag to get similar blogs.

Our site improvements continue! We’ve added great new features to Blogged.

If you look at the homepage, you’ll see a new tab called Top 10. Every month or so Blogged will spotlight the Top 10 blogs on a subject. Currently, we have the Top 10 Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton blogs.

We also created a Blogged widget in which you can display your favorite blogs on your site. Check it out:

Now you can proudly show everyone your favorite blogs. If you are the owner of a blog (and you have been verified as the owner), you can also add widgets that display recent reviewers and number of visitors.

“The recent Democratic primary has caused an unprecedented increase in media coverage and discussions about the two candidates. We felt that the voices of the bloggers should be included in these discussions as well,” said Kenneth Yeh, co-founder of Blogged.com.

Blogged.com offers political junkies and casual readers alike a one-stop shop for finding key blogs on their candidate - with everything from op-eds and political punditry, to biographical pieces and news updates. Blogged.com plans to release additional lists of top 10 blogs on popular topics in the months ahead as part of its mission to help people “find better blogs.”

Barack Obama Blogs:

• My.Barack Obama.com
• Baracko Blogger
• Positively Barack
• Barack Obama 2008
• Asian Americans for Obama
• This Week With Barack Obama
• All Things Barack Obama
• Blog Obama 08
• Catholics for Obama
• Election 2008 Options

Hillary Clinton Blogs:

• Hillary Clinton
• Hillary Hub
• Vets 4 Hill
• Hillary is 44
• Hillary Rodham Clinton 2008
• Todays President
• Hillary Clinton News
• Hillary Now Obama Later
• Hillary Clinton Army
• Hillary Clinton for President in 2008

You can also see the list on our Top Ten page.

Gladys and I attended the Web 2.0 Expo held in San Francisco and it
was a terrific experience. The main goal of our trip was to see what
cool things people were doing and we were definitely impressed.

I think the highlight of our trip was meeting with Matt Mullenweg,
founder of WordPress. Both Gladys and I were impressed by what a
nice guy he was. He seemed both intelligent and humble and it’s
pretty amazing that he accomplished what he did at the age of 24. We
also attended some of the parties and it was great to see everyone in
a relaxed atmosphere. Pete Cashmore and Kristen Nicole were both
really approachable and friendly — we saw them at the Mashable party.

Overall, the trip was very productive and we met with many high
profile bloggers and are working on ways to improve the functionality
and visibility of Blogged.com.

Blogged has partnered up with matchmine™ and joined the rapidly growing MatchKey Partner Network. Media Discovery Platform™ enables their users to discover content they love based on their unique preferences, delivering a better recommendation experience that generates longer session times and additional revenue.

We are very excited to be part of this network that helps user discover content.

We’ve been pretty busy working on ways to improve Blogged and creating tools to make discovering blogs easier. More on that later.

We can tell you that we have changed the way you rate blogs. Now you can rate a blog in increments of 0.1 instead of 0.5. One of our users suggested this idea and we went ahead and took the advice.

Remember when we showed you our new Blogged shirts? Well, we are looking for ways to give some of these awesome shirts to our users. We are thinking up ways (a contest, perhaps) to give some of these babies out. Stay tuned.

In case you forgot what the shirts look like, here you go:

Alright all you blog owners, it’s time to claim your blog. We’ve added a verification process that allows blog owners to be listed as the author on the blog’s detail page. All you have to do is click on the link provided in the author field.

Once you have been verified as the author, you will be allowed to request changes to the:

Title
Description
Tags
Category
RSS URL

We’ve also spruced up the related blogs section that offers you a thumbnail preview of other blogs in the same category.

We are working on more changes that will make discovering blogs easier.