The buzz on BlogHer is booming. I think we got the main BlogHer site moved to a scalable multi-server setup just in the nick of time. Kudos to our hosting partners on the BlogHer website project, Firebright, for their hard work! The new setup is humming!

Via BlogHer Contributing Editor Jeneane Sessum, I've learned that also speaking of (not at, unfortunately) BlogHer is Shelley Powers, who's back blogging on three blogs (so far). (Her old flagship, Burningbird.com, now seems to showcase some of her beautiful photography.) Shelley has noticed the incredible growing sponsor list on BlogHer's home page. The sidebar full of sponsor logos indeed has shot roots down deep 'below the fold' of the pages. (In fact, the sheer weight of the logo images was becoming a server load issue on the former hosting configuration -- a 'good problem to have,' to be sure, but still something that kept the server working harder than anticipated.)

Today we have taken BlogHer.org live with a beta launch. [Note: The domain's DNS settings were changed only 14 hours ago, so if you go to the domain and see a Typepad site, please try again in a few hours.]

This is a community site built to serve both as a community base for the BlogHer Conference 2006 and as a directory to answer the ever-persistent question asked by A-list bloggers, "Where are all the women bloggers?" (Where? BlogHer.org is where!)

Our official association with BlogHer began last year, when we hosted the BlogHer chatroom. We are delighted to have been able to expand our involvement with this community by designing and developing their new website using Drupal.