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I've added a bunch of blogs to the Minnesota Blog Directory, which now features entries on more than 940 sites. I've also updated popularity data for most of the blogs and recalculated the Newsbobber score for every site. So there's an updated list of Minnesota's Top 100 blogs. The list has changed quite a bit since I first created it last summer. Some of top blogs weren't in the directory when the initial list came out. Other top-scoring sites have been in the directory for months, but until recently did not have accurate or updated popularity data. Once I updated...

Newsbobber is headed to Minnesota Public Radio. I've taken a job with MPR and Newsbobber is part of the deal. So Newsbobber will not survive in its current form. Instead, elements of Newsbobber -- and certainly some of the ideas behind it -- will become part of MPR's Minnesota Today, a new web venture and content-sharing project. My job will be to help create, launch and run Minnesota Today. I'll be focused on the web side of the project, trying to build a robust and engaging hub for Minnesota news, culture and buzz. Minnesota Today also includes a plan to...

Not long after I started building Newsbobber, I knew I would have to tackle Twitter someday. My feeling is that any aggregator site aiming to become a go-to source for news, information, buzz and entertainment must have a Twitter component. That's more true today than it was even a year ago, when launching a Minnesota news aggregator was just a gleam in my eye. The fact is that anyone who wants to be truly plugged into a city's news, politics and civic life needs to know what's happening on Twitter. In the past few weeks I finally tackled Twitter. My...