BlogNetworks

BlogRolls are obviously blog-networks.

But there's a commercial version too. Here's a good analysis of the value of joining a blog-network over playing solo, and how the GoogleJuice works to everyone's advantage.

• http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/05/13/examining-the-9rules-network/

Might be interesting to compare how blog-networks are rather like gangs.

• BlogAds stimulates creation of these networks : http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=30957

• via http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/20050608.shtml#014165

Why not join?

• http://9rules.com/blog/2005/05/problogger-on-9rules/

• http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/05/13/why-not-to-join-blog-networks/

• http://businesslogs.com/reputation/discussthenegatives.php

Obviously, explicit blog-networks are a counter-part of explicit SocialNetworkingServices.

How does this compete with a social networking service like TribeNet starting to introduce blogs for all members?

Bloggers rate their contributers? : http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000613046373/

Examples

• http://www.web20workgroup.com/

Contrast BlogRolls

|| || BlogRolls || BlogNetworks || Comments ||

|| Bends the BlogoSphere? || Yes || Yes || (Just as mass distorts space, these things form gravity wells in the blogosphere) ||

|| GoogleJuice || Yes || Yes || ||

|| Shape || Rhyzome || Hierarchy || Interesting difference. See also NetworksVsHierarchies ||

See also :

• GroupBlogs

• MicroContent