Instead of blogging here, I wrote about the simplest of pleasures on the best darned dad blog I ever founded, Dadomatic.com.

It feels like an okay day to be a parent. More “meaty stuff” soon.

After 20-ish days, I’m pretty happy with the state of Dad-o-Matic, the site I started for dads to write about parenting. We have 33 authors, 65 posts, and over 230 regular RSS readers. I don’t have the daily stats visit number yet because I guess I didn’t install the stats thing the right way. But hey, 230 regular RSS readers in under a month is pretty cool, eh?

What I’m most pleased about is how excited and passionate the dads posting on the site are about their thoughts. It’s decidedly different than I thought the project would go. For whatever reason, I thought I’d have to beg people to contribute. At this point, I’m just as surprised as anyone at the number of great posts I see there. I love what I’m reading, and I can say that, because it’s rarely something I’ve written.

So, what it’s teaching me is that great content ideas can launch well, that great authors are just waiting for a project that might spur their ideas, and that it’s not that difficult to launch a new project, if you have the support of a passionate community (that’s you).

Ed pointed out that the commenters on Dad-o-Matic are pretty kick-butt, and I can’t disagree. It’s really amazing how great people have been. Wonderful community forming there, and how can I not love that? Thanks for the reminder, Ed.

Note: I just made Paisano administrator. Why? Because he fricken rocks, and does a lot of great things. He’s writing on four blogs at this point. But if I were him, and if Pete and Ostrow plan for 2009, I’d dump me/Dad-o-Matic the moment Mashable offers him a full time gig.

Thanks for reading Dad-o-Matic. I’m loving it, and glad you’re into it, too.

Super duper special thanks to Jeff Sass (a Dadomatic veteran) for creating the widget over at Widgetbox.

What do you think?

Dad-o-Matic
Authors: 16 registered authors.
Posts: 15 published posts.
Comments: 75 comments.
Web hits: (don’t know, stats didn’t pick any up. Gotta troubleshoot.)
RSS subscribers: 37
Google references: 53
Blogsearch : 57
Technorati: (don’t know, it fell down when I was searching)
Affiliate/Ad money made: $4 . It’s week one.

I’m really proud with what we have, especially with the 16 authors. I just added Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of Mashable fame, Jeffrey Sass of lots of places face, and David Petherick from Digital Biographer to name a few. They’ve got more posts coming out shortly, as do the entire team.

And I hope to pry at least one more dad post out of Guy Kawasaki for next month. (Mind you, I don’t pay him as much as Amex.)

So far, it’s been fun. I’m going to think about how to get more out of it, for the parents in the community as well as how to make the business of running a content blog like Dad-o-Matic make sense.

What’s your take? What do you think about the project overall? What would you do differently, if you were starting Dad-o-Matic?

Well, we’ve launched one more.

Announcing Dad-o-Matic, a blog for dads, written by geeky web dads of all types. The goal of the site is to cover news, views, reviews, and advice, given to you by dads, for parents. What’s up there for posts right now are mostly advice. I think we’re still early into getting our voice, but man, look at who’s writing there:

• Dorian “Paisano” Carta – from Mashable and other places.
• Mike Chapman – from Every Dot Connects.
• Jeremy Toeman – from Stage Two Consulting.
• Grant Griffiths – from Home Office Warrior.
• Scott Kiekbusch – from Adjustafresh.
• Ryan Ozawa – from Hawaii Blog.

Oh, and there’s a very very special guest post by Guy Kawasaki. (I say “guest” because I haven’t yet convinced him that having seven or eight regular blogs to write for is worth it yet.)

We have many more authors contributing to Dad-o-Matic over the next months. Look for folks like Shel Holtz, Darren Rowse, and a few other swell folks who happen to be dads *and* on the web!

Why Do it?

Dad-o-Matic stems from about three things I wanted to do. Number 1: I’m a dad and a very proud one, and I think there’s lots of information that we can provide that’s useful to other parents, including even some more tech information for how parents and kids navigate the digital world together.

Number 2: I wanted to try a content blog with many authors, and try a few things out. For instance, you’ll notice that we have ads. I want to try out the media model of a group blog and see what I learn and can share with you about it. If I’m not eating my own dogfood, why should I expect you to follow my advice? So, there’ll be Dad-o-Matic project updates posted here on [chrisbrogan.com], but more from the “business outside the business” perspective.

Number 3: I wanted a group project. It’s really fun to put together fun things like this, and if the dads involved keep posting, and if we build up even more dads, the work load of writing the occasional dad blog post won’t overwhelm the fun of being part of something fresh and interesting. I’m thrilled that we have some great dads putting out interesting (and often different than their main stuff) from their typical online stuff.

Please Check It Out

I’d love for you to check out Dad-o-Matic and tell me what you think of it. If nothing else, check out some of the great work from Jeremy, Guy, Scott, Ryan, Grant, Mike, and whoever I might’ve just forgot in listing that.

There’s so much more to come.