In a couple of weeks Blog Navigiator 1.0 will be released and boy is it cool. It's the only way I interact with JoeUser pretty much these days because the speed advantages of RSS feeds vs. slogging it through the JoeUser.com website are so apparent. The only thing I can't do - yet - is navigate through the forums. But that should be rectified fairly soon.  But it's not just reading blogs, posting blogs is easy too. The posting part requires Blog Navigator Pro which will come out...

Anyone who's been around Stardock's various websites knows the pattern.  We find a new way to make things faster or upgrade some piece of hardware to make the sites run smoother and the traffic instantly jumps which brings back the problems for the regulars. The #1 performance hogging feature on all of Stardock's sites (whether it be JoeUser or WinCustomize or GalCiv2.com or TotalGaming.net) is the same thing -- the referrals.  That is, all items actually look at where a visitor is ...

Net communities are fairly predictable.  They go through various stages during their life cycle.  JoeUser is a net community too and the same things I've seen on countless other communities I see here.  What is unique about JoeUser is that it's also a blog site.  Most blog sites are isolated from one another.  Being isolated from the other blogs on a blog community has its pros and cons.  On the pro side, you have much more control over how your site is promoted.&nb...