I took some time last week and got DotNetNukeBlogs.com upgraded to the latest version of DNN, 5.1.2, and also made a few other enhancements. I’ll be testing out some more enhancements over the next few days. For those blogs who can’t seem to syndicate good HTML in their feeds we’ll be stripping all HTML and trimming the descriptions down for posting on the home page.

We will however still link directly to the blogs, just as we’ve always done. At DNNBlogs we don’t intent to try to steal your content for our own purposes like some other aggregation sites, we post your syndicated content and link directly to your posts, not to another page on our site.

We also corrected a problem with permissions which was preventing people from being able to add URLs or modify existing URLs, if you run into any problems of that nature please let us know immediately.

I've uploaded a new build of the Engage Publish module which has a different format for URLs, if you notice any problems here on www.dotnetnukeblogs.com with the RSS feeds or site links please use the Contact Us form on the About Us page.

Thanks for your help and  patronage of the site!

Why DotNetNukeBlogs.com? Our goal is to be the premier aggregator of DotNetNuke related materials. DotNetNukeBlogs.com was started by DotNetNuke Core Team member Chris Hammond with the intention to provide a place for the leaders in the DotNetNuke Community to push their content to those needing it most, the users.

Stay tuned as we continue to grow. If you're a DotNetNuke Expert be sure to get your feed added into our aggregate system.

You can read more about us here.

So the first month of DotNetNukeBlogs.com has been a good one. We are currently aggregating 16 different RSS feeds relating to DotNetNuke with over 450 blog posts! We'll be working on some more features for the site over the next couple of months, don't forget to check out  our "Cool Stuff" page in which you can get some additions for your own websites!

We've had a few submissions so far that don't really fit within the realm of DNN and some that just don't have enough content. If you've submitted your feed yet don't see it being aggregated here yet, get some more content on your blog relating to DotNetNuke and then let us know so we can review it again for relevancy!

So far we have one blog, other than my own, feeding into the aggregate. Last night something went haywire with the consumer and caused the latest post from that one blog to get entered into the system about 40 times, basically every 15 minutes from the time I made a change in the database.

I've shut off the consumer for now until I get this fixed, hopefully later today.

So we spent some more time today working on functionality for the website. Right now you can register with the website, once registered you can add your own DotNetNuke related feeds to the website. Check out the About Us page for some basic rules out about service.

One of the features here at DotNetNukeBlogs.com will be to highlight interesting DNN sites that we come across. The first one I want to bring focus to was brought to my attention today by my boss.

Take a look at http://bugnetproject.com/

At first you might think that it is not a DNN site, it looks like another software package that used to be "open source" but never really was.

Great implementation!