One of the coolest things about announcing MetBlogs is watching the reactions. Good or Bad. (Although luckily most have been *very* good) But by far the best part is that people are "getting it" without a lot of explanation. With blogging.la Jason D and I agreed the best thing to do was point people in a direction (LA based) and set them free. The personality developed better than if we'd tried to sculpt it and I think that's one of the things people really like about it. With the new sites, we did the same and when we announced it, we purposefully didn't give out a lot of details. Let the sites and bloggers speak for themselves. In the past 24 hours I've gotten hundreds of e-mails about this, and while I'm still trying to go through the stack, it's really, really awesome to see feedback from people who right away see what we are trying to do. It's not a calendar listing, it's not citysearch - it's a perspective of the city from people who live and breath it every day. And if you click with one city, you know where to look when visiting another. It's not hype - it's what people are really into and reading these e-mails it's really inspiring to see how many people know that without us shoving it in their faces.