But it was fun while it lasted.

I’m looking forward to seeing what you have to say here
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What I was trying to figure out wasn’t whether I could join your network (though it never hurts to throw your brand out there), but really how close should we the site operators cuddle with a network when a lot of it is an all or nothing proposition where you guys hold the purse strings. I know, I’m just some rancorous nerd spouting off in your comments, but I think a lot of people are like me, who work 100% from a home office or have their own business and have to look sideways at every deal that could screw with our cash flow.

I don’t think any comparison with b5media is possible as Splashpress Media a privately owned company is and has never taken any venture capital. After more than four years we know the market and are expanding our services on a regular basis but not just with ‘blogs’.

Even though my own political site is still in it’s infancy, we already command the voice of a thousand thunderclaps known as Google News. I’m asking you: Beyond that, and building contacts of smart people who have the power to raise the cream to the top, what do blog networks of people who don’t know each other even offer? As an anecdote… I have another site that got in good with b5media while the getting was good, only to see them self implode and nearly take out half their blogroll as disgusted people tend to turn to new things (which isn’t always terrible, when a blogging bubble economy is evident). Some of those people did fine, like ourselves, but some of them probably had dollar signs in their eyes and knew how to fake it.