CategoryBlog Networks

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 ...more

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 ...more

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 ...more

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 ...more

Just stumbled over Know More Media, a new (launched mid December, I must have missed it in the end of year frenzy) blog network that has quickly launched quite a few blogs – all focussing upon business. I’m yet to get through all of their blogs yet but some of ...more

Top Personal Finance Bloggers Unite to Launch MoneyBlogNetwork I’ve just received the following press release announcing that 5 personal finance blogs have just banded together in a new blog network – the MoneyBlogNetwork. The five blogs forming the new network are: * JLP of AllThingsFinancial * Jim of Blueprint for ...more

Colin Devroe has started an interesting series of posts on the topic of how 9rules.com was built. The first in the series looks at the early days and how they used WordPress to accept submissions and add new blogs to the network. This promises to be an interesting series to ...more

It’s that time of the year when every second day there seems to be a new blog award announced for people to nominate blogs for and then to vote for. So I thought maybe it was time for someone to run a ‘blog award award’. I’m going to do it ...more

If you’ve got some bookkeeping skills you might like to head over to b5media where we’ve just advertised that we need someone like you. In other b5media news – with the last few blogs that we just launched (3 more from the merger) we now have 63 blogs (and over ...more