) also began as a reaction to the "What's New on CPAN series" on perl.com, which I saw often missed some modules (granted, it's a curated list) as well as included some non-new modules. My blog posts get the data from MetaCPAN API, so it should not miss any new distribution, and they are 99% automated so the effort to create a new post is minimal and there's a higher chance that I can keep up doing it.