Blog Network News

The Cyprus Blog Network is currently reshaping things, and when the dust settles, they hope to have a few good bloggers on board.

Would you like to write for Cyprus Blog Network? Would you like to be a voice of Cyprus blogging? Do you think that you can bring more information or good writing to this resource? Do you think that you can handle all the fun?

If so, drop us a line. This is your chance to join the Cyprus Blog Network team.

Cyprus Blog Network

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Shiny Media, managed by Ashley Norris and Chris Price, recently secured $4.5 million in venture capital from Bright Station Ventures. (Congratulations)

Wagner’s first move at Bright Station Ventures was to take 50% of the 22-strong UK-based blog network, which claims 3m readers each month. It is good news for Shiny and also a healthy development for the European blog sector.

The news was revealed in yesterday’s Sunday Times, which has long been a Wagner-watcher. He famously bought the Boo platform for about a quarter of a million quid, to underpin Venda, an online retail ASP that is going from strength to strength.

Continuing read at e-consultancy

Now it’s all about figuring out what to do with the money. (You can also read about it at the Sunday Times website.)

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I’m sure the folks at the Bloggy Network are happy with their brand new acquisition. On February 1, 2007, they announced that they would be welcoming a brand new gadget blog, Gadgetizer.com, into their blog network family.

Gadgetizer is a technology blog penned by Tiago Gaspar (who will remain the editor of the blog) and previously owned by Paul Short of Gomaud Media. Details of the acquisition are still sketchy, so we’ll just have to see if any other news develops…like how much it went for. Hint hint.

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On January 31, 2007, the Voices.com blog network announced that it would begin accepting advertising and sponsorship on a monthly basis.

Voices.com presents advertisers with an exclusive opportunity to get in front of thousands of unique visitors and listeners each day. The blog network sponsorship includes featured ad placement on the VOX Daily blog, Casting Voices blog, Ask the Voice Cat blog, Master VO blog, and The Biz blog, all sources that feed the industry on a regular basis and initiate conversations, spread ideals, and connect people to each other.

Read the press release

One interesting surprise is that advertisers can actually get the ads in a podcast instead of just on the website itself. This seems to me that podcasts may go the way of radio with interim adverts between the actual music (or in this case, dialog).

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It seems that it’s just that time of year — everyone is leaving some company.

First, Duncan Riley leaves b5media, now Jason Calanis (of Weblogs, Inc. fame) is leaving AOL. The story was first broken at TechCrunch and then picked up by the New York Times.

The news comes after Jason learned CEO, Jonathan Miller, is being replaced with Randy Falco.

In recent months, Mr. Calacanis said he was considering leaving AOL to start a new company. His decision to resign was hastened by the news that Time Warner, AOL’s parent, had replaced Mr. Miller with Randy Falco, the president of the NBC Universal Television Group.

“I’m not inclined to start over with a new guy,” Mr. Calacanis said in an interview on Thursday. As for what to make of the treatment of Mr. Miller, who discovered he was being replaced after a reporter called AOL asking about Mr. Falco’s appointment, Mr. Calacanis said only: “I’m perplexed. Why now?”

Blog Entrepreneur Leaves AOL - NY Times

What does this mean for AOL? Jason was an integral part of their company, and now they’ll need to find someone big enough to fill his shoes.

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In a quick post on Wednesday, b5media announced that Duncan Riley will be moving on.

The last few weeks have been very exciting for b5media, but we are sad to announce that effective immediately Duncan Riley is leaving b5.

Speculation that the departure wasn’t amicable was already brought up in the very first comment on the post, in which, the commenter mentioned a blog entry by Duncan stating that he was stabbed in the back.

But time to go now, the wounds in my back are twitching and I’ll[sic] got to go and sign some papers.

Reading between the lines, methinks there’s more than meets the eye with this change at b5.

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It was announced on Wednesday that b5media has raised $2 million USD to fund their blog network’s growth.

b5media Inc. (“b5media”), a global new media network, has raised US$2-million of equity financing in a transaction co-lead by Brightspark Ventures and J. L. Albright Venture Partners. The funding will strengthen the company’s network of bloggers to create greater value for readers and advertisers.

Though there are a few dissenting views about this new turn of events, I wish them the best of luck.

(If you care to read some of these dissenting views and other commentary, you can check out ValleyWag, BusinessLogs, and Rick Segal. You can also catch a nice round up of all the chatter at TechnoSailor.)

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I’m a day late and a penny short, but I’m finally making the announcement about it.

Creative Weblogging has introduced its first sponsored blog into the network. The new blog is called Small Biz Unplugged and is geared towards the Canadian small business owners.

It is a first! We have just launched the first corporate-sponsored blog here at Creative Weblogging.

It is called Small Biz Unplugged. The blog is “dedicated to supporting the Canadian small business owner. Topics include everything a small business owner in Canada would be dealing with. Topics could include taxes, financing, business planning, expansion, startup, blogging, succession planning, marketing, cash flow management and managing human resources to name a few. All with an eye to the Canadian small business perspective.”

The blog is sponsored by D & B Canada. D & B Canada sees a significant part of its mission as supporting Canadian small businesses to achieve their goals.

Hopefully this new blog will prove to be as successful as its others, and remember, if you’re looking for a writing gig, they’re hiring.

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If you enjoy writing, and need a little extra exposure, then Creative Weblogging wants you.

They are currently looking for bloggers in the following areas:

• Patent Law
• Hedge Funds
• Financial Markets Watch (Commodities, Emerging Markets Investments)
• Fashion
• Motorcycles
• Global Warming
• SAP
• Oracle Databases & Applications
• SOA
• CRM
• DataCenter, DataManagement
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
• IT-Security
• MySQL
• Visual Basic
• C++
• Web Services
• Outsourcing

A number of other topics and, of course, you can suggest some topics if you feel it would be a great fit for the Creative Weblogging network. Interested parties should submit an e-mail outlining your writing experience.

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If you like clicking around new websites, then you may be exactly who Jeremy Wright is looking for.

b5media is looking for some people to help them test out version 2 of their design/platform for the next two weeks.

Anyone interested should head over to Jeremy’s blog and leave him a quick comment.