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Howdy. It's in soft launch mode right now, so it isn't being promoted right away. This way we can catch any bugs that were missed when it was in development. There are still some design issues that we're playing around with. There is talk of launching officially within a week.

Well, honestly, the old guard of Gazette writers started out in the typewriter era, so this is all kind of new to them. But I've been showing them a lot of stuff and they're very excited about the information available out there, and becoming part of this scene. So: last year, I would say none of them even knew about hockey blogs. This year, they're getting clued in very quickly. Then there's a few younger bloggers who spend their whole day reading the minutiae of NHL and Habs stuff (when they should be doing their real jobs, I'm sure) -- and they probably have all of this stuff bookmarked.

Blog and tag cloud via Movable Type. Back at you: how do you do your stats & standings on the HW page?

Oh yeah, I should have also noted that there's a sub-blog called Mike Boone's Online Eeee-mail. Boone's a city columnist and crony of Red Fisher, and his blog is a bit more of a personal take on the Habs ... he hates the Leafs, dislikes Don Cherry, and has a great time riffing on the stuff that happens. His most recent post is about the Latendresse-Roy dust-up, and it's hilarious.

Howdy. I know it's lame for a first post to be promo-related, but hopefully this will be of interest to you. I'm a freelance producer and helped build www.habsinsideout.com for the Montreal Gazette. It's now online and gets updated multiple times per day. They've worked really hard to make it as Habs-fan friendly as possible, and there should be some good inside info as some of the paper's beat writers follow the team and report to the bloggers. They'll be posting pics from pro photographers from the games, often live-blogging from the press box, and podcasting weekly fairly soon.