3. Contributed 1,295 new blogs to the BlogHer Blogrolls

This is the job that hurts so good -- the task of making sure that BlogHer does not morph into SpamHer requires that Elisa, Jory and I confirm that each blog recommended to the BlogHer Blogrolls matches our checklist. The lion's share do fit the bill- but there are are a lot of them! So we're at work on a few options for improvement, including naming a couple of blogroll editors from among our volunteers. Stay tuned. And stay up to date on the latest additions, including the homepage feature that shows the ten blogs most recently added to the network.

4. and 5. Published 586 posts of superb quality by these fantastic editors and elicited 709 comments.

Amazing writing, people, in your comments and original posts. You've broken news and improved coverage in the past week on this site. I'll be writing more on this topic...

6 and 7. We've experienced a few SQL glitches as we work to sand all corners on this site. Laura continues to work to reduce how hard we hit the database during peak load hours.

The other biggest glitch of the week is, unsurpringly, a human error committed by me - I asked Laura to map my Lisa@blogher.org address to an email address I rarely use. (I knew those sudafed and Robitussin cocktails would get me into trouble.) My apologies - I owe a number of folks an email! Once I'm caught up, we'll begin thinking about some of the other burning issues you've raised in your comments about the site and how to improve it.

Thank you again for all your time and interest.

Best,
L