David and I (Chris) attended the OAF luncheon today to listen to blog consultant Josh Hallett speak about blogs. I’ve been talking (virtually) with Josh for the last few days about Blogzerk. He was kind enough to mention Blogzerk to the group as an example of blog hosting services.

The presentation was excellent and had a blogload of great information packed in an hour—actually more with questions. Thanks, Josh for the mention! You can check out the example post he did during the presentation and later on listen to the podcast.

UPDATED 11/9/2005: Version 1.1 which fixes descriptions which are too long.

The wait is over! Download a Konfabulator widget that will show the last five posts to the Blozerk blog. This should work on both Windows and Mac versions of Konfabulator.

UPDATED 11/9/2005: Version 1.1 released to use FeedBurner RSS link.

For those of you using OS X and Dashboard, you can now download the Blogzerk Blog Widget. This widget will show the last five articles posted to the Blogzerk Blog. Get your FREE Blogzerk trial blog here.

Installation instructions:
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you’re using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it.

For those of you on Windows that want a widget, you have two choices: get a Mac or wait for the Konfabulator widget. Hopefully the Konfabulator widget will be released later today--it depends on how quickly Zerkie can code one up.
Get the Konfabulator widget here.

We at Red Rocket and Adaptive Hosting Solutions are happy to announce that Blogzerk is now officially launched! Blogzerk is the brand name we are now using for our Blogware-powered blog hosting service. We are still using the same Blogware back-end system so those of you currently using our blog hosting service won’t need to make any changes.

Our goal with Blogzerk is to give you more than the standard Blogware experience—it is already great but we want to make it even better. The beginning of this can be seen in the Customize Your Blog section of the Blogzerk site and the new templates so you can customize the look and feel of your blog. To give you more options for pricing, we have added three new plans which will help those blogs that use large amounts of storage or data transfer.

We hope you enjoy the new service. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.