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Tamon

Tamon — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I don`t agree ... Blog networks are collection of blogs. if they have to succeed, they have to give more power to bloggers. See what 9rules are doing, people loev to be associated with them rather than b5media or Instablogs.

Blog Network, Digg and Newsvine are different products for different people.

Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I think the first comment here says it all, and that came from somebody who’s not even in 9rules... thanks Mark!

9rules isn’t a traditional blog network in the sense that we start new blogs and hire writers to populate them, but I would say that our model is closer to a social network or a community than others are. Many independent blogs write about how their goal is to join 9rules ”some day”, and almost every single one of our members is also an avid 9rules supporter and evangelist, almost to the point of where Apple fans are. If you do some quick Technorati or Google searching, you’ll see that the magnitude of results for ”9rules” is between 3-10x larger than the blog networks you listed in the post, which shows that it’s not just our members who are talking about us, it’s everybody. It’s not often that somebody not affiliated with the space (aka, not a network owner, not a paid writer) sings the praises of one of the blog networks you listed, but that happens with 9rules all the time.

One of the factors facilitating this is what Mark touched on: that people love to be associated with 9rules because our brand recognition and values are finely honed and people see value in our company. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a random blogger clamoring to be part of Blog Network X, but with 9rules, our affiliation means something deeper than simply being paid $Y per month. Joining 9rules is like joining a social club, whereas ”joining” another network is basically a job, and people don’t normally like to hang out at their job after work is over :)

Ankit

Ankit — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I do agree with you Mike on couple of points, that 9rules is more of a Community or Social Network rather than a Blog Network which is a very good thing.

We at instablogs are also going to evolve into a social network than a simple blog network, where audience will be particpating equally with the bloggers themselves.

I agree joining 9rules is like joining a club. But how much beneficiary is it to those who are looking to take blogging as a living as compare to other networks. I think this is still an open debate.

Tamon

Tamon — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I have been watching instablogs from its launch, you people have done a greta job of pulling it from the shatters at the launch.

I will be watching with great pleasure to see you evolving into a social community. Blog Networks are getting boring, lets see how different you could be.

Cheers!

Mark

Hassan Rizvi

Hassan Rizvi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I think social networking is going on at many places.Insta needs to evolve into a special place for convenient placing of all types of blogs-with social net working as part of the inter action amongst bloggers.This i see it is already achieving -and what attracts me to it.

Seiko Velatura

Seiko Velatura — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Blog networks should not evolve to social network there are two different concepts, usually a social network is a place were people with average iq and expertise freely express their opinion and build random content while the blog networks posts the information and the average users just comment so you can separate the experts from the average users.

Revme

Revme — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I have been watching instablogs from its launch, you people have done a greta job of pulling it from the shatters at the launch.