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Money keeps the focus of many blog networks April 4th, 2006

Yet again. money is cited as the main reason for running a blog network.

Jeremy lists some questions that anyone wanting to join a network should ask.

His question 5 is: How much are you currently paying out to bloggers (as a whole) every month, and how much has that amount been growing by monthly?

That’s not a bad question, but his answer closes with the statement “What you don’t’ want to see is a 1-year old network with 50 blogs and 30 bloggers only paying out 500$

That’s a very fixed outlook, probably based on b5media’s growth pattern and expectations.

And, apparently, in question 7: What is the exit strategy?

Jeremy tells us that “every blog-network wants to get bought out”

Huh? Since when? Blue Fish Network is fiercly independent, and always will be. Always. Yes, really.

Yet again it displays a very narrow view of ‘network’ - then again, Blue Fish isn’t really a blog network anyway.

Google Marijuana… April 1st, 2006

I am probably going to regret this as this page will now probably get Google ads for marijuana, but I saw this whilst surfing a web directory - and I was on a fairly generic page that only mentioned the phrase once. (I’ve mentioned it twice plus the title and the alt tag on the image so I am bound to get ads for it…)

Google Marijuana

I am sure that word pays well, but there were plenty of other words on the page. Is Google approving this?

Update: D’oh, I don’t have ads on this site.