Comments on: Interview with Blogs.mu founder James Farmer

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:00:40 +0000

Something I’ll certainly look into. I’ve thought about running a blog network before but the thought of people only posting once and then abandoning the blogs puts me off.

By: العاب شمس الدين

العاب شمس الدين — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:32:47 +0000

Now with service , i think that running blog networks won’t be as hard as it used to be . Though establishing one is not on my to-do list yet .

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:03:05 +0000

@Bill Masson: You can turn off the messages in your profile (labeled Tips).

By: Make Money Online

Make Money Online — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:43:47 +0000

Well thats straight from the horses mouth. Good job there, I wonder how they will earn by providing the service free? There is a catch somewhere or is it?

By: investorblogger

investorblogger — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:50:12 +0000

It might be as restrictive as WP.com is… I just checked the licensing… You can’t do a lot of things as an IM. I wouldn’t want to entrust a lot of content to a system that can be shutdown for unwarranted commercial activity… even one that you are PAYING for!

Mmm.

Kenneth

By: axel g

axel g — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:45:25 +0000

Sounds great to have your own blog network!

Nice interview…

By: axel g

axel g — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:45:03 +0000

Sounds nice to have your own blog network!

Nice interview…

By: Bill Masson

Bill Masson — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:43:34 +0000

Hi James,
I have taken the plunge with the single blog option and will give it a go for a month, oh thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment.

You have certainly done a good job with this CMS model, but I am still finding it a bit restrictive when it comes down to choice of plugins, i would like to see an option to import your own theme that can be edited.

Your support forum tells me that the theme is SEO up to the eyeballs, but i prefer to have more control over these options, it would be advantages to include HeadSpace 2 or simple tags, these two plugins are great for predictive tagging and allow for Robot editing to follow or no follow.

I appreciate you don’t want to go top heavy with plugins as this increases the upgrade workload.

There is the annoying message from Blogs.mu reminding me to upgrade on every page i visit in the admin. I have tried to get rid of it but no joy.

Overall I am reasonably pleased with Blogs.mu , I guess I am still used to my own hosting and having total control over my WP Blogs. I can see the major benefit of using your service for 100s or 1000s of sites, but for anybody who has say 15 or 20 blogs it may not suit, all depends on the individual, whether they want to save time.

Thank’s for the read

By: Luca

Luca — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 +0000

I must admit I’m pretty new in MU stuff and I’m still a learner, but the interview gives quite interesting information, so I won’t this the opportunity to have a deep look at this service and check if it can be useful for my projects.
thanks for sharing!!!
Luca

By: Another Way To Earn Money

Another Way To Earn Money — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:06:20 +0000

This is goooooooodddddddd…………..he is very clever and brilliant..

By: WebMarketingArt

WebMarketingArt — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:15:48 +0000

I would like to ask James how blogs.mu makes money?

By: Technology Slice

Technology Slice — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:50:00 +0000

Sounds interesting. It seems like a good way of setting up your own blog network.

By: James Farmer

James Farmer — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:45:41 +0000

Heya Guys, Glad you like the site and thanks for the feedback – if you have any questions or ideas, please don’t hesitate to swing by the forums: http://forums.blogs.mu and we’ll ehlp you out personally.

Cheers, James

By: Novickarija

Novickarija — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:10:31 +0000

i like the design, im gonna try it :)

By: Miss Gisele B | EatSmartAgeSmart.com

Miss Gisele B | EatSmartAgeSmart.com — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:42:34 +0000

This is quite brilliant!

The possibilities could be endless, painless and effortless.

James, you’ve just revolutionized things for so many of us smaller media onwers!

I cannot wait to start playing with this new tool!

Miss Gisele

By: JC

JC — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:16:21 +0000

This all looks very interesting to say the least. I will definitely be keeping up with it.

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:32:56 +0000

Seems quite promising – I just opened free.blogs.mu, let’s see if people get interested. I’ve already tried to build a service like that based on WP MU, but it never worked properly.

By: ezFreeSamples.com

ezFreeSamples.com — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:27:49 +0000

HEY This is Awesome! Thanks Darren for this tip. I will have to check out this Blogs.mu to help set up my Blog Network…

By: Paritosh

Paritosh — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:05:25 +0000

Innovative concept with a bright future.

By: Sam G. Daniel

Sam G. Daniel — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:25:59 +0000

Great interview. Interesting pricing model and allowing for ads to be placed on user’s sites is wonderful