If you still haven’t spent any time perusing Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty’s Official Transition Web Site, allow us to suggest you do so today. Not so much because it tells us anything we didn’t already know about Fenty (what’s that you say, he’s an avid jogger and dislikes cigarette smoke? Shocking!), but because there is an entire section of the site devoted to using blogs as a key tool to get public input during the transition.

On the one hand, of course we’re thrilled that our young Mayor is embracing teh internets so enthusiastically. Maybe this means Fenty will have a Mayoral Blog that will actually amount to something after he officially takes office, unlike Mayor Williams’ fairly pathetic foray into the medium.

On the other hand, we’re seriously overwhelmed by what Team Fenty has set up on this site. Setting up a Transition Blog? Great idea. Setting up 17 different Transition Blogs? Sometimes more is just more, Mr. Mayor-elect.

Most of the 17 blogs went live in early October (with assistance, it appears, from well known Mt. Pleasant activist and Fenty campaign consultant Laurie Collins, who has used her personal typepad account, thus making the urls for each blog rather disconnected from their actual identities), but have only recently started to see some more regular content appear — though many are still pretty bare bones. Overall, it’s a nice idea that feels pretty haphazardly put together: it would be helpful, for instance, if something on the landing page indicated which of them had been recently updated (though adding the few that interest you to your RSS reader could solve that at least partially). And who exactly are all the people writing for them? We recognize some of the names, but short bios of each contributor would be welcome in adding some transparency to the process.

Our quick impressions of a few of the blogs, after the jump.