JBlogSphere.net Blog

Looking for New Owner

I no longer have the time and resources to run this site. Thus, a new owner is wanted. This site is being offered for free into good hands.

Temporary Outage

We are currently experiencing a temporary outage which has begun at 16:00 / 4 PM GMT.

New Feature: Search the Jblogs!

With the power of the new Google “Make your own search engine” feature, we cooked up a brand new search box for our site. This box will let you search ALL of the blogs included in our site including all of the old posts. You can find it on the left upper corner of our site and it is completely free! Or you can just click here to use it.
Enjoy.

BlogAds Added

We are still experimenting with different ways to offset some of the hosting costs for this site with ads. Right now we have Google Ads running and to this we just added BlogAds (which you may know from other Jewish blogs).

Amazon Ads Removed

Due to complaints from users about the questionable content (i.e. naked people), we have removed all Amazon ads from our site. Instead, we added refer links to Google.

Minor Hiccups

Earlier today our site was having minor hiccups with entries dated past August 31st. This should be fixed now.

What Features Should We Add?

It has been a bit over two months since we started this site. Since that time, this site has grown to include over 200 blogs, over 7,000 visits and 30,000 pageviews. The question is what can we add to this site to make it even better?

Newspaper Article on War-Related Blogs

A major French newspaper, the Le Monde, just published an article on Israeli and Lebanese blogs that are relevant to the current war situation. Among the sites mentioned is our wartime edition, IsraPundit, lots of Lebanese blogs and a link to the famous post on Jblog-o-Sphere blog that points to revelant J-blogs. The article is in French but you can read the English translation from BabelFish here.

UPDATE: An English translation of this article was published by Peace Journal.

War Time Edition Launched

In lights with the recent events in Israel, we launched a special war time edition of JblogSphere.Net right here:

http://www.jblogsphere.net/special/

It includes the most recent Jblog posts from our main page as well as breaking news from the major English language Israeli newspapers and media sources: Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Yedioth Acharanoth, Jerusalem Newswire, Arutz Sheva/Israel National News. In addition we also have a list of recent Google news headlines for Israel.

Let us know what you think.

UPDATE: This feature is no longer active.

Quick Statistics Added

As of today, we are starting to collect statistics on overall posts and posts/blog. For now we are displaying the following stats on the front page:

Total number of blogs in the system:
Number of blogs posting on a given day:
Number of posts on the frontpage:
Average Number of posts / blog / day:

The information on statistics has been added to the FAQ.

ALSO:

There are stats available on individual blogs as well (number of posts / day). These will be put up at some point in the future.