ActoBlog.com has been launched -- although it's far from perfect, so if you check it out you'll notice imperfections and stuff that is incomplete. The primary point of creating the site was simply as an exercise to help me make some of my ideas more concrete, and to help me understand logistical issues regarding how the whole "fill out a form and get a portal" offering would work.

If you check out this page, you'll see the order form for requesting your own portal. (Although we're not really taking orders for portals at this point, still have a good amount of testing and stuff to do.) Also, although there are pricing details on the site, ignore that; our primary focus is on strategies that involve creating these custom portals for free for talented bloggers capable of building communities and their own personal brand.

Which leads me to the purpose of this post: getting you to do my thinking for me.

If you have any feedback on this, I'd love to hear about it; feel free to reply to this post or send me an email at kidmercury [at] actonetwork.com. Some questions I have, if you're interested:

1. Is the idea of portals and communities for bloggers inherently lame? Have I wasted the past two and a half years of my life pursuing a fundamentally stupid and broken idea?

2. Do you "get" the idea? Does it make sense, or is it unclear?

3. What functionality would you like to see integrated? For instance, I plan on adding social networking functionality, as well as matchmaking/dating functionality.

4. Does this look like too much work to manage? Understand: I'm all about helping you make more money while doing as little work as possible. Help me help you be the lazy but profitable blogger you were born to be. :)

Feel free to be as brutal as you'd like in your feedback. As I've repeatedly proven with many of my posts, I can handle the truth. So lay it on me.