http://www.metblogs.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:38:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We weren't planning on launching this just yet but the outages earlier this week sped things up a bit and it actually was really useful so we decided to throw caution to the wind and put it out there right now. Check out The Hub. hub.metblogs.com Feel free to look around, post ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/07/11/introducing-the-hub/ We're having some issues with some of our DBs this morning. We've called them names, thrown hot coffee in their faces, kicked them in the shins, and so far none of that has worked. Because of that, new posts and commenting is down network wide. We've got a post about ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/07/09/site-problems-today-hang-tight/ Welcome to June. Welcome to our newest Metblog. Welcome to Spoon River. We're super excited to launch our newest faux-city Metblog. LA blogger/writer Jay Bushman (and his Loose Fish project) is behind the keyboard of this modern adaptation of the 1915 poetry serial Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters. That ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/06/02/56-spoon-river/ This week I've been driving around the pacific north west eating food, meeting Metblogs authors, and eating food while meeting Metblogs authors. Oh and Metblogs readers too, and eating food with them at the same time. Oh and drinks, of course there were drinks. Oh and cameras, let's not forget ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/05/23/pacific-north-west-roadtrip/ Ok truth is I just made up that fancy rev number and it means nothing but it sure sounds fancy. Anyway we just rolled out the new CSS tweeks to the entire network and the updates should be live everywhere. Here's a list of the major changes with this version: - ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/04/28/metblogs-vxrev2-live/ As some of the more astute RSS fans noticed some of the feeds we were publishing prior to the redesign didn't transfer as gracefully as we'd hoped and we've been tweeking them ever since. We're very happy to announce that both the Full network feed, and the individual feeds for ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/04/06/feeds-are-back-sweet/ Hi there. How was your weekend? Good, glad to hear that. Us? Oh thanks, yeah, um, funny you should ask. Se we launched this new design for the sites and stuff. We've been working on it in one form or another for, well, for a long time. It got to the ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/03/06/omg-the-launch-was-not-flawless-halp/ As you may have noticed we've got a whole new fancy face on (designed by an amazing team at The Groop). As you might not notice we've also got a whole new fancy thingamajig behind the scenes running it all. Since we completely and whole heartedly think beta testing is ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/03/02/metblogs-redesigned/ Pakistan is on high alert after Benazir Bhutto was shot and killed a few hours ago while attending a political rally. The former prime minister had recently returned to the country after ten years in exile, and was planning to run again for the prime minister position in elections scheduled ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2007/12/27/former-pakistan-pm-benazir-bhutto-assassinated/ We're just getting the reports from our bloggers in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad right now but Emergency Rule Martial Law has been declared in Pakistan and the Press and Media has been ordered to cease broadcasting and STFU. The country is expecting a presidential address later in the day. Here ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2007/11/03/emergency-rule-declared-in-pakistan/