By Bill Cleary
Many of you have no doubt noticed that BlogNetNews is no longer accessible. Gone too is the little blue BNN widget with a number written on it that was a fixture on CNB. Driving the decision is, of course, money. Dave Mastio, who operated BNN, said the site has been losing enough money of late that it is for sale. In the meantime, it has shut down. He said he may restart it if the economy improves. BlogNetNews ranked the most influential blogs in each state across the country.
For three years straight BlogNetNews rated ClearysNoteBook as one of the top 20 blogs in the state of New Jersey. The number would vary each week but most of the time we were listed in the top 10. And on more than one occasion we were ranked number one. How they chose each blog we could never figure it out nor would Mastio reveal his secret.
In answer to several complaints about the page not loading fast enough we have cut the number of posts on the front page from 23 down to 12. To read more articles click the link at the bottom of the first page which will direct you to the second and third pages. We have also cut the number of photo albums displayed from 50 down to five. We will replace those with other albums every so often. Hopefully these changes will take care of the problem.
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