Comments on: When 85 Equals 31

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:32:51 +0000

Something weird happened to my comment I think. It was ehm… longer than what’s visible now! ;)

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:43:10 +0000

I think the name made it count like a Network a long time ago, although Duncan’s definition takes it out of the equation.

By: Nick Douglas

Nick Douglas — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 22:19:28 +0000

So 9rules counts as a network now?

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:52:59 +0000

I was completely amazed by the fact that a set of

By: Sumeet

Sumeet — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:16:17 +0000

I’m no fan of AOL, but they are a pretty big company with (I’m assuming) a decent sized research department. It seems to me that, before spending millions of dollars on a sure-to-be publicized acquisition, they would have _at least_ browsed every blog under WIN. So, since there seems to be a relative consensus that many of the blogs under WIN aren’t even that amazing, it may be that AOL’s purchase has little to do with the blogs. Perhaps it was a PR move (I doubt it. $25 million could be spent better for PR than buying WIN) or maybe they just wanted to own the ideas, resources, and people that WIN contains. Regardless, AOL’s purchase can hardly be criticized on the level that the blogs they bought are lacking in number and quality, since AOL probably didn’t buy WIN for that reason.

By: Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:21:02 +0000

How many of those 31 are decent? I only know of Engadget really and I typically use Gizmodo instead.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 06:57:24 +0000

That’s one of the dangers, I think, of having too many damn blogs to oversee.

By: Ara

Ara — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 05:44:00 +0000

I don’t know. I’m always weary of a major corporate “launch” rivaling something that’s a grassroots effort. It’s kind of like the disaster that is the music industry’s answer to file sharing.