b5media’s Darren Rowse has been hit with a DoS attack against Problogger.

Metroblogging has blogged up #43: Nashville, TN

In 1843, Nashville was named the permanent capital of the state of Tennessee. Today, Nashville becomes the 43rd Metroblogging city. Coincidence? Hmmmm… Regardless we’re happy to show off our first blog in Tennessee. Swing by and check it out.

b5media launches another sports blog this week with the announcement of Timed Finals, a swimming blog:

I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time. The chance to launch Timed Finals, the blog on the great sport of swimming and written by someone who knows swimming intimately – U.S. Olympic swimmer Scott Goldblatt. Scott recently blogged for b5media over at Light the Torch while working with us on the launch of this blog.

Technorati’s Top 100 now includes their new favorites feature.

The top blog ranked by favorites is Steve Rubel’s Micropersuasion, followed by Scoble, then by Boing Boing, Techcrunch, and Microsiervos.

We’re pleased to note that our own Blog Herald is sitting pretty at #100.

Blog Network Bloggy Network has merged with blog services portal Blog Flux:

We have merged with Blog Flux, a major blog services portal. The combined websites will still use the Bloggy Network name.

Let me tell you a little bit about how the deal came about.

My and my friend Ahmed Farooq had known each other for a couple of years. We never really collaborated on a project together until several months ago. That project was Blog Top Sites. This was really just about his first foray into blogging. For the record, Blog Top Sites has now tracked over 100,000,000 visitors and delivered almost 1,000,000 visitors to people’s sites.

The more I ranted and raved about the power of blogging to him, the more he liked the idea of blogging. Soon after we started BTS he started creating Blog Flux. We started talking a little playful trash to each other back and forth and back and forth between my network of blogging sites and his portal. And as we exchanged conversations, it became apparent that we had the same goal. So why be split when working together makes things so much easier?

b5media has launched Games Industry Wire:

Games Industry Wire reports on the news in the gaming industry. Written (now) by Justin Tippins, it analyzes corporate filings, looks at overall industry happenings, analyzes trends, etc.

In addition, regular interviews with gamers (about the industry), developers, newsmakers and pundits will be occurring – ultimately to try and give a global view of what is happening in an industry that is “bigger than Hollywood” (if you only count box office receipts, don’t count video game returns and stare at the numbers sideways)

Creative Weblogging has launched the Daily Diabetic:

We are very happy to launch Daily Diabetic one of the major new site in our new Life Sciences category.

Daily Diabetic is authored by blogging pro Rhys Alexander who already masterfully and very frequently contributes to our education sites.

Daily Diabetic will help people affect by the disease to improve their lifestyle and live happily with this unfortunately too common disease.

Instablogs has launched Findablog:

Our Findablog blog covers the latest developments in the Blogosphere – exciting new blogs, quirky blogs, the business of blogging and so on.

Instablogs has redesigned Instatravel and One Dollar Drip.

Mike Rundle, Chief Design Officer at 9rules writes about some upcoming plans from the 9rules group:

The guys and I at 9rules have been laying low the past week or so, and when that happens you can usually guess that something big is coming soon Our Network has an extremely high concentration of great web designers and developers, so when we all put our minds together we can come up with some cool stuff. Soon we’ll be launching a few new applications/services that will reside outside the 9rules.com website, with our members at their helm. These will be the first of a few member collaborations that have been in the works for awhile now, so we’re psyched to finally move forward. Hint: 9____.com and 9_________.org

Our sources tell us that the two new projects are 9friends and 9charities, but our sources have been known to be wrong before.