Back in early May, Diddy announced that he would be launching a blog at DiddyBlog.com. And then, on Saturday, he said it would launch this morning. You can now check it out at DiddyBlog.com.

Before the site launched, I offered some suggestions for how it could best be executed. Having spent some time on the site, I am pleasantly surprised with what I see and I really like what they've put together.

Visually, it's simple, but nice. Powered by WordPress, it is quick loading, easy to read and visually strong. Everything looks good, except for the inspirational quotes being off the side of the screen, even on my large 1280x1024 resolution. But, that is a simple fix.

The blog is broken up into six categories: Inspire, Believe, Feel, Create, Love and Grow. They all feature multiple posts. There are 21 posts so far. That is a lot to digest and, if I had to guess, I would expect it will slow down a bit and that the initial rush of content is just so that the site wouldn't appear empty.

The posts follow the generally inspirational track that had been suggested. I am happy to see that Mr. Combs, or the people who developed the site, did not follow the unethical and illegal path that some other artists have, and stolen content from other sites. Instead, his blog features unique write-ups, attributed quotes and direct links.

There are a couple of caveats: it would be good if quotes like the pair on the post, "What Do You See?" were better attributed, to make it clear what news agency or publication they originated from. With quotes in this format, i.e. quoting the person directly, it isn't as big a deal as if you were quoting an article, but still, it would be most appropriate to link to the articles where the quotes originated.

Secondly, there is a heavy use of photographs, but no citation of sources for those photographs. It is possible that the rights to the photographs have been purchased. That said, the "Don't Scale Back Your Dreams" post includes a thanks to the New York Times and Washington Post for the pictures. You can't just take pictures, put them on your website and include a thank you. It's copyright infringement and that's why we have so few images here at Bad Boy Blog.

While it is an area that a lot of online publications do fail on, taking for granted the work and resources that go into capturing these photographs, I would much rather see Mr. Combs lead by example and work with the licensing agencies or, at least, use a service like PicApp.

There is also a full post credited to Ralph Marston, titled "The Dream," who appears to be contributing to the site. The piece does not appear to have been published online previously, at least in public.

Comments are allowed on the site, which is good as long as those comments are monitored. It would be nice to see some comment guidelines on the site, unless they intend to just allow everything that is posted, which I hope they don't.

In all, given the Bad Boy and Diddy sites of the past, I'm really impressed with what is on the site now. This is a great step. If they fix those out of screen quotes, nail down the image rights issues and better attribute some of these quotes, the site will not only be visually great, but fundamentally sound and a great example of a well run online publication.