A blog network is a collection of blogs sharing member authentications, clip art, revenue models etc.
Some good examples of blog networks are: Gawker, and InstaBlogs.
Some people might consider Blog Hosting firms as a Blog Network as well. By this definition, there are a lot more blog networks.
List of Blog Networks has a long compilation.
Software to Start a Blog Network
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have modified the SimplyBlog engine so that it can used to start a Blog Network.
The authentication credentials can come from a different system (like LDAP or a forum Database such as phpBB), so you don't have to change the world just to be able to offer blogs to your users.
As a demo, I am starting Kamat Blog Network. I sent some invitations, and it already it has 3 many blogs.
- Amateur Webmaster Blog -- My technical experiences of maintaining Kamat's Potpourri
- WeTube -- Just like You Tube, but just for desis.
- Malli's Potpourri -- Birds, Stamps, and Studies of D.G. Mallikarjuna
- SimplyBlog Blog -- A blog about the SimplyBlog software system
- Secrets of Raji's Kitchen -- Carefully preserved traditional recipes of Tamilnadu
One of the features of SimplyBlog always has been to merge different blogs into one page -- each blog having its own template. This feature turns out to be an excellent way to start Blog Network.
• Anatomy of the Kamat Blogging Engine
• Introducing SimplyBlog Software
