15
Oct
You’re about to start a new blog (or you want to expand an existing blog), and you come across blogging networks such as b5media or On Topic Media (Orble). How these networks seem to work is you sacrifice a percentage of ad revenue in exchange for being part of the blogging network. Depending on the model adopted by the blogging network, you may or may not own the blog, and you may or may not receive some kind of subsidy to help establish your blog.
So what competitive advantage do you gain by joining a blogging network?