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I thought it would be interesting to make some data about the blogs on the site visible and so: the charts page. Hopefully it's self-explanatory.

I've just sent out the second issue of the email newsletter but, in a sense, it's the last issue of the email newsletter. After this, all blog posts will be sent to the newsletter, and there won't be different content delivered by email. You can subscribe to this blog by RSS or, now by email. There's no newsletter with its own different content.

Today we have a slightly new layout for the Recently updated blogs page which makes the page easier to scan quickly to see what's new.

If there are specific topics you're interested in, this is a good update for you. You can now download OPML files of all the blogs currently in each category, and follow RSS feeds of the blogs added to individual categories.

It's been one month since the site launched, so here's an update.

If you've been unsure whether to sign up for the ooh.directory email newsletter, now's the time – I've just sent out the very first one, which you should receive when you subscribe.

You could read it on the web but that seems to defeat the point! I doubt I'll blog about all future newsletters so do subscribe if you want to know about future ones.

Here's the newsletter:

The blog posts are now all up to date and should, hopefully, continue to be so, following the recent interruption in service. The server now has more memory, the lucky thing.

You might have noticed that no new posts are being added to the site at the moment. For example, the Recently updated blogs page isn't changing. This is because I moved another website to the same server as ooh.directory but that appears to be too much for it – the task that runs every few minutes to fetch new blog posts now quits, bringing down the database with it. Consequently, there won't be any new posts appearing until the VPS gets upgraded a little. Shouldn't be too long.

A quick update on how the first couple of days have gone, in terms of getting the word out about ooh.directory: far more visitors than expected, far more new blog submissions than hoped for, and an interesting comparison between the effects of Twitter and Mastodon.

Hello, and welcome to ooh.directory.

As I write there are 851 blogs here, all categorised, and all staying updated with their new posts. Hopefully you'll find some blogs here that interest you.