Montastic is a free site monitoring service based on Ajax and Ruby on Rails, that doesn’t suck, as their tagline goes. What it does is simple — it sends you an email when your site bogs down. Montastic hasn’t emailed me yet, but by just signing up with them I’m sure my sites are in pretty good hands. I know I can’t watch my sites 24/7, but Montastic can do that for me, for now.

Recently I tried a new online news aggregator called Suprglu, a service that allows you to gather all your news sources into one neat blog-looking interface. I signed up and added Alleba Fresh!’s RSS feeds. It’s great because I can see where this service is getting at — allowing webmasters to put all their content into one page to give others easy access to them. What more, Suprglu puts these all together into a single RSS feed for syndication — useful if you have a network of sites and you would like to offer a unified product.

Lately I have been thinking of more ways to vigorously get the word out on new sites added to our directory, and I think that Suprglu added one more to my list. Visit Alleba Fresh!’s page on Suprglu.

I’m giving our blog a major overhaul. I decided to give it another go, from scratch. From now on I will be writing about cool stuff happening on the Internet, focusing on web applications that you might find useful for your website. I look forward to blogging full-time. Hope you’ll tune in.