New RI blog aggregator launches

BlogNetNews, an aspiring national blog aggregator, has launched a Rhode Island site. It has all your faves -- RI's Future, Anchor Rising, Daily Dose, Belo Blog, and, yes, N4N.

A fellow named David Mastio dropped me an e-mail with the following skinny:

The heart of the site is an aggregator that reposts the begining of the latest posts from blogs across the state and then links back to the originating blog for readers who want to check out the whole thing. There's also a search engine on the top right and and on the left a variety of statistics on what is going on in the Rhode Island blogosphere. In the "services" tab on the left sidebar, you'll find the code to put the Rhode Island search engine on your site, as well as a Rhode Island blogger headline widget.

 

You'll hear from me again in a few weeks when we have wrapped up building out all the states (seven more to go I think), we're building a national platform that will let readers quickly find the latest posts from blogs writing about every U.S. House, Senate and Governors race in the country written by local bloggers actually on the scene. (If you want to play with the programming we're using for this, you can see some of the innards at www.blognetnews.com/feedcentral.