New Home for Bloggers

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Network Newsletter for 03/04/2003

Dear Readers,

Weblogs are a growing part of O'Reilly Network content. We have more than 80 bloggers who take turns publishing new and interesting items every day. Currently, our weblogs account for more than one-tenth of overall page traffic throughout the Network, and that includes our domain sites such as ONJava, ONLamp, and Mac DevCenter, plus forums, search results, and other tallied pages.

Clearly, the time has come to create a new home for this flowing stream of topical information, and that's exactly what we did. Now, at weblogs.oreilly.com, you can quickly peruse top 'blogs from the last month, descriptions about our active contributors, and a topics list that helps you quickly pinpoint content in the areas that you find most interesting.

We'll continue to list the latest weblogs on the O'Reilly Network home page, as well as throughout the site, but now when you click on the "Weblogs" heading, or the "More weblogs" link, you'll be greeted with our new home for bloggers.

Hope you have time to drop by for a visit.

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Until next week,

Derrick

Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Technical Editor
derrick@oreilly.com

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