One of the Web's most prominent blog network lists, BlogNetworkList.com, will soon be much better, according to Matt at Blog Network Watch. If you are or want to be part of a blog network, this news should benefit you. (You might also consider joining Know More Media, of which I am a proud member.)
Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, Matt offered me a sneak preview of the next version of the Blog Network List. I can't share with you all that I've seen there, but let me say that it's an exciting and refreshing improvement over the current version. My favorite improvements:
Some fun facts, according to the new Blog Network List:
- Only 7 blog networks (out of dozens) have 40 or more blogs.
- 9rules currently has the most blogs (93), followed closely by Pajamas Media (88) and Weblogs, Inc. (85).
- Four of the top 10 blogs in Technorati's rankings - Engadget, Gizmodo, Instapundit and Michelle Malkin - belong to blog networks.
Matt has commented before at Business Blog Wire on the difficulty of estimating the true monetary value of a blog network. On that note, Weblogs, Inc. CEO Jason Calacanis has just posted about the inflated valuation of blogs and blog networks, warning against overestimation.
Look for the new Blog Network List sometime in December 2005. Comments or questions are welcome.
Intresting post.
I read that they valued the blog network at $20 a reader (daily).
They basicly bought weblogs inc for that value at a months duration....a lot of money.
It would be very impractical (and unwise) for any blog network to even attempt to value itself...
How do you assign value to blogs?
I know people who made 200K last year from their own private blog network. Its just a 1 person show and they can make that much. None where top blogs, all very small niche orientated.
WIll be very intresting to see how blog networks size themselves up as legitimate publishers and stray away from the personal end of things(what makes blogging so good).
When that happens it will make it very hard for an individual to get the readers that can currently get.
We'll see....
Posted by: Dave Ryanan | November 30, 2005 3:35 AM | Permalink to Comment