CategoryBlog Networks

Opportunities at b5
If you don’t follow the RSS feed over at b5media you might have missed a few opportunities that we’ve been advertising for including: a call for sports bloggers – particularly on baseball, hockey, football (American), basketball – but on other sports too a call for celebrity/TV show bloggers a call ...more
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Shiny Media launches Propellerhead and Catwalk Queen
UK blogging network Shiny Media has just announced two news blogs – Propellerhead and Catwalk Queen. Catwalk is a being billed as ‘your own personal online stylist’ and takes a look at how to look like your favorite celebrity. It complements the other fashion blogs that Shiny already has – ...more
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Over Stretched Blogging
I’ve been preparing for our last call in the six figure blogging course and we’re talking a little about hiring bloggers and blog networks. As a result I’ve been doing a bit of a tour of some of the newer blog networks to see how they are traveling. Some are ...more
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Weblogs, Inc. Interviews its Bloggers
Weblogs, Inc. have been redeveloping their home page recently with design changes and more recently the decision to start profiling some of their bloggers via interviews – the first of which is with ProBlogger reader – Jay Allen who heads up their Baby Blog.
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Blog Networks – Definitions
Martin has a post asking (and attempting to answer) the question What is a Blog Network? which might be of interest to some. It includes a very rushed and un-thought through response from yours truly. I’m not really sure there is a single definition for a Blog Network – if ...more
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Conflicts of Interest
Martin, the guy behind Blog Network Watch, has decided to call it quits after a week of blogging there. It’s not because it didn’t work (in fact he got a fair bit of attention) but because he saw potential conflict of interests. He writes: ‘I thought it would be a ...more
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Positive Blogging
Instablogs has been copping a fair bit of criticism in the past few days since its launch a week back. One of their latest posts – Why This Unfair Treatment? – takes a look at a blogger’s argument that they are spam, their latest post explains their Plagiarism episode and ...more
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Instablogs Launches
After a few server problems the newest blog network to launch – Instablogs – has gone live. They’ve launched with 46 blogs (unless I can’t count) on a large array of topics. They are billing themselves as ‘A News Organization based on Blogging’. It’s early days yet for them so ...more
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Weblogs Inc Sale to AOL Confirmed – Here’s the Inside Word
I’ve just been forwarded an email which was sent from Weblogs Inc Co-Founder Brian Alvey to Weblogs Inc’s bloggers. It was sent to me by WIN blogger who wants to remain nameless. I won’t publish it in full here as its a private email – but here are the main ...more
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