Archive for Blog Networks
Written on March 16th, 2006 at 08:03 am by Darren Rowse
Interview with Matt Jones of Random Shapes
There’s a great interview with teen blog network owner Matt Jones from Random Shapes over at The Blog Herald.
I love reading the stories of (and meeting) young technological entrepreneurs. There’s something about the freshness of their ideas and ‘can do’ attitude that is so amazing. I think Matt’s one to watch.
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Written on March 16th, 2006 at 03:03 am by Darren Rowse
Why You Shouldn’t Join a Blog Network
Having looked at some of the advantages of joining a blog network it’s only fair that we look at the flip side. Blog networks will not suit every blogger’s personality, style and goals and you should take into account the following before signing up for one:
1. Revenue Split – While I argued in my previously [...]
Written on March 15th, 2006 at 02:03 am by Darren Rowse
Why Should you Join a Blog Network?
After posting yesterday a basic Introduction to Blog networks I now want to turn my attention to some of the positives about joining a blog network as a blogger (the negatives will come in the next post in the series). Please note that I’m not writing about the benefits of starting or owning a blog [...]
Written on March 14th, 2006 at 09:03 am by Darren Rowse
Introduction to Blog Networks
I’ve done a little study in the past few years on ‘movements’ as part of my interest in emerging forms of spirituality and one of the things that I’ve come to know a little about is how new movements often start as fairly chaotic and disconnected entities but generally over time will (in order to [...]
Written on March 9th, 2006 at 10:03 pm by Darren Rowse
Jason Calacanis Talks about the AOL Sale – Podcast
If you’ve been watching the rise of Weblogs Inc over the last couple of years and want to hear some of the behind the scenes story of the AOL sale then you might want to listen to an interview with Jason Calacanis recounting the story on a techcon TPN podcast. Jason talks about the highs [...]
Written on March 2nd, 2006 at 10:03 am by Darren Rowse
Shiny Media launch The Googly – Cricket Blog
I’m an Aussie and I’m proud of it – so when a blog launches on our national sport (ok, one of them) my ears prick up.
UK blog network, Shiny Media have just launched a Cricket Blog by the name of The Googly.
Now this is not a blog that will appeal to every reader of ProBlogger [...]
Written on February 12th, 2006 at 02:02 pm by Darren Rowse
Light the Torch – Olympics Blog
In case you hadn’t heard – b5media is having some fun with an Olympic blog over at Light the Torch where we’ve opened it up for others to join us in the blogging frenzy (it’s a group blog with bloggers each representing their own countries – there are even Aussies blogging on it – and [...]
Written on February 11th, 2006 at 03:02 pm by Darren Rowse
Insular Linking on Blog Networks
jkOnTheRun has an interesting story on how Blog Networks can get pretty insular with their ’source links’ (ie crediting where they get stories from).
The example given is one where the writer (jk) had been credited as being the source of a story on a Weblogs Inc blog (which was indexed by Technorati) but then [...]
Written on February 3rd, 2006 at 09:02 am by Darren Rowse
Gawker Launches Valleywag
I generally don’t announce when blog networks launch blogs but for some reason when Gawker Media launch one I sit up and take note – because they have an amazing strike rate of launching very successful blogs. They don’t take the machine gun approach and go for lots of small blogs – they launch a [...]
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