If you aren't reading this post in a feedreader, you've noticed the brand new homepage design (if you are reading in a feedreader, you should totally come visit BlogHer.com right now.) There are great new promo boxes that will help you find hot content and expanded comments in several areas that will help you join the discussion quickly. Those are great new features but what I'm really excited about is that new box on the right called "Featured BlogHer".

An estimated 14,000 women gathered at the nonprofit, nonpartisan conference held in the Long Beach Arena in Southern California yesterday. The event, which began 22 years ago as a government initiative for female small business owners and working professionals, has grown into the largest woman's forum of its kind in the United States.

Hillary Clinton came out representing New York minutes ago and proclaimed that her state was giving all of their votes to Senator Obama, then she called for an affirmation to suspend the roll call and vote as one body to support Barack Obama as president. Nancy Pelosi asked for a second, there were hundreds, and she asked for a vote, the house roared, and she announced he is the official nominee of the Democratic party. We've made history.

Momocrat Julie Pippert interviews New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen for both Momocrats & BlogHer.

If you've been holding off on registering for BlogHer '08, now is most definitely the time to act. We've been tracking BlogHer registrations, and today was, for some reason, a tremendously active day. Which means we are planning to shut down new registrations tomorrow, July 2nd at 6PM Pacific time. So, no joke and no scare tactic: The next 24 hours are it for BlogHer registrations. Please join us, and join us quickly!!

it's that time again: Time to find the experts out in our community who want to pass along their hard-won expertise to their fellow bloggers. The Reach Out Tour is coming to a city near you in October...if you live near Boston, DC, Nashville, Greensboro, Atlanta or New Orleans...and we are looking for local experts and local color. Track #1: Blogging Basics

UPDATED: All Room of Your Own slots are currently taken, so if you're interested in being put on the waiting list Email Elisa and let her know. Last week I announced BlogHer Meet-up, Birds of a Feather and Room of Your Own opportunities at BlogHer '08 this summer.

As of today, we are six weeks away from the beginning of BlogHer '08 on Friday, July 18th. And we have only 150 slots open for registration. That may sound like a lot, but at the rate registration has been going in the last couple of weeks I can safely say that we will once again sell out, and it could happen more than a couple of weeks before the event starts.

Every year we try different things at our conferences, particularly around how we provide opportunities for bloggers to connect with one another. This year we are trying yet another new spin on two of our annual conference standards: Birds of a Feather sessions and Room of Your Own sessions. Birds of a Feather

The screengrab team is tired, but Greg's still editing. It's been a long day full of learning, interaction, blogging, and soon-to-be drinking. 

Screengrab meets up with Christa Avampato at the 2008 BlogHer Business Conference.