So, as you may or may not know, I am also the assistant editor at the BlogHerald, and am helping Mark Saunders (chief Honcho) and Abe Olandres (junior Honcho) with the transition to 2007 and beyond.

My post frequency has dropped off in recent days, as I have been a bit of a busy bee helping the Herald get out of the Funk it has been since the change in ownership.

One of the challenges we first faced was the absence of some really key bloggers who were making a name for themselves over the past few months. I mean, of course, Thord Hedengren and Muhammad Saleem. Dave Krug’s departure also hurt in a different way — he brought some intangibles to the mix that are hard to replace (wild prison stories, industry connections — the usual stuff). Martin Neumann also went his separate ways, and although he wasn’t quite as regular, we will miss that Aussie’s brand of knowledge and insight on publishing, monetization.

Right now we are concentrating on gathering the best bloggers we can to produce the best quality content we can. We are currently in the middle of our first roster “reveal”, and there are a few left to go. But for the ones who are announced already, I am particularly proud and humbled by their choice to help the ‘Herald out on its next stage of bloggerific evolution.

If you haven’t done so already, please do check out Scott Karp’s thoughts on the economics of content, Liz Strauss‘ opinions on transparency and authenticity, Micah Sparacio’s post on blogging and teaching, and Derek’s opinion on the new Digg changes.

The BlogHerald has some important traditions, being one of the oldest blogging properties on the web. I hope that in the upcoming days, weeks and months, we continue to change, evolve, and grow in those best traditions.

The most exciting part? There’s a lot more planned.

At least two new bloggers are getting unveiled tomorrow, one of whom, you may know, as he is one of the most popular bloggers in a particular part of the world, whose own blog actually surpasses the BlogHerald in traffic (acording to Alexa anyway).

Other things to look forward to include a complete site redesign, even MORE bloggers as we expand our coverage, and a couple surprises in 2007.

Well, that’s enough of the explanations about what else I do in the blogosphere. And now, back to our regularly snarky scheduled programming. :)