Recently with Twitter, not so much, but that’s what experimenting’s for. It’s a new network Twitter and pretty small.

Anyway, I think people do respond to something “more”. Even if it’s just a high quality setting with a casual friendly environment.

That, my friends, will be the death of Web 2.0 as people begin to wizen to this modern day form of slavery called “user generated content.” (Much of it is in-fact stolen content.)

At the Blogsboro Network ( http://bloggingpoet.squarespace.com/blogsboro-network-websites/ ) we’ve decided to do things differently. As the founder of the network I pay our writers exactly the same amount I pay myself. While we are a new network launched in November and still quite small, we are owned by our writers. As one who has been blogging since 2000 I’ve watched these trends very carefully and as the first born son of a Southern sharecropper I look at Web 2.0 and think of the horror my father would feel if he were to see all these people flocking to give away everything they have of value when he, himself, ran away from home to escape the landlord and join the Army.

I’ve given our writers (my partners) an equal portion of all my work for the last 8 years. Will we become a success? I don’t know. Will I build a business on profiting off the works of others while paying them little if anything in return? NEVER!

Web 2.0 will die because it is built on crap and slave labor. Quality and people will be the hallmarks of Web 3.0 and I’m happy to say that Blogsboro.com is showing the way.

Blog networks are all the craze these days. Why? Because there’s money to be made of course! Every week it seems a new network pops up, and that’s a good thing. Online publishing is finally starting to come into its own, as a viable business model no…

Our Interment site is perhaps our largest property in terms of revenue and reach, and anytime I’ve needed to hire help, I could post a notice, and get deluged with e-mails. But in that case, it doesn’t have anything to do with my credentials. I actually hide behind the site, and don’t make myself known. People just like the site, and want to be a part of it.

Darren, I think I sent you a message asking about WordPress themes a while back & also Duncan. I talked to Jeremy a long time ago about this same stuff after reading some of his posts on SitePoint.

I found 9rules while searching a long time ago, and eventually finding Forever Geek, that’s when I started reading more about the network, and its success.

“This sounds totally arrogant and to be honest I laugh at the thought of people wanting to join an ordinary fellow like me at anything”.

This doesn’t sound arrogant, I guess some people could see it that way, but I don’t.

Anyway, the point is that you have a nice blog here with a lot of useful information for people who want to start blogging in general, or those trying to develop a network. (Me?)

You are targeting the right market– new bloggers that are driven enough to have found you. How can you go wrong?

Or is that classified? ;o)

The blog network owner that was disappointed — how well did he get the word out?

I can see that being a factor — the more people who know about it, the better your chances of one of those people being interested. Of course, people might have totally discounted the other network after hearing about it, which goes back to the points everyone made. People gravitate toward success.

And I think we’re all savvy enough to see that your launch of b5 last week was very well planned and thought out. Even the openness of Jermey and yourself to respond to my post, shows people that you have your heart in this venture. And people respect the fact that you are being very open and nothing is set in stone.

You’d be surpirsed by how many people out their take your word as gospel in regards to professional blogging … so get over the modesty ;-) and learn to live with your fame ;-)