I’ve been organising a rebrand of Planet of the Blogs and other blogging sites I run for the past month or two.

The plan is to rebrand POTB / IrishBlogs.org under the “Journals” brand. This would connect to similarly branded sites for other countries (e.g. the New Zealand version of POTB is Generation Blog).

So in the short term, journals.ie and journals.co/net/org.nz will appear; later journals.jp and journals.org.uk will probably be set up. journals.es may appear in parallel with boards.es (eventually!).

journals.ie will incorporate the POTB Irish blogs aggregator (probably as planet.journals.ie), the IrishBlogs.org Drupal-based blog hosting service, and the GalwayCity.com WPMU-based blog hosting site. The plan is to allow people to choose what domain they want to use in their blog URL, e.g. trucks.galwaycity.com or vans.journals.ie or cars.irishpodcasts.net, from a list of about 10 to 20 Ireland-related domain names.

Here’s an initial stab at a logo, I want something that will reduce in size well… But I’d appreciate some feedback.