Ensight – Jeremy Wright

We are now at 13 live blogs, and we’ll likely have 15 for the end of the day (which was our ‘ideal’ launch lineup). A few examples, from the “really live” and not just “just woke up and don’t have any posts yet” group:

Flightnest: I love this blog. I’ve never seen an aviation afficionado blog, and the fact that we have 2 hobby pilots writing it gives me a huge amount of joy. Tim and Mike do a great job at keeping people informed about the latest innovative stuff happening in the industry.

Play Girlz: Last week when I said a blog title was making me feel dirty, this was the one I was talking about. But, since Ingrid and Erin (the two girl gamer bloggers) are the ones that chose it, I just have to smile to myself and nod.

Cellphone9: Jayvee is the editor for this blog. He’s a passionate young asian guy who also writes and edits mobile stuff for a handful of magazines. Really great guy, and he’s always digging up cool stuff. It may not be Engadget, but I loves that he shows his personality so much in the posts. Keep it up Jayvee!

We’re getting closer and closer to “launch” every day. It’s, really, less than 48 hours away. We should have all 15 blogs ready to go by then, but we still have a number of challenges before I consider the “launch” behind us. Included in that is moving all the blogs to a new server, getting the new template up, setting up proper advertiser stuff and helping our bloggers maximize their potential.

Once these 15 blogs (and nearly about 10 authors) are “settled” we’ll focus on showing off why we feel b5 is so unique, and we’ll also start looking for new authors.

We’re not quite “there” yet, and it might take us a week or two to finally settle everything down, but I know that I am very excited (and if the discussion list is any measure, it seems like many of the authors are as well) and can’t wait to show you all that we have up our sleeves.