During the last nine months or so, many networks have popped up and gone strong. B5media, Instablogs, KMN, Syntagma Media, Blog Media have been successful in craving a niche for themselves. Although some have died too, including FineFools, which was launched with a lot of hype.



However, the fact remains, most of the networks were able to get good traffic and were able to monetize the blogs associated with the network. Any blogger wishing to join a network looks primarily how the network can help him/her to monetize his blog further, get more traffic, or provide him greater visibility.



Most of the time amateur bloggers and newbie gets to learn the essence of blogging quiet fast by using Blog Network resources which otherwise would have taken him quiet a long time. Chartreuse is one exception out there.



Anyways back to the post, Blog Networks no doubt have been successful in empowering the blogger, even making his readily available to the audience. But the evolution of blog networks in social networks is not yet taken place. Jason Calacanis has launched Netscape beta, another Digg clone backed by in house reporters and editors. It is a great improvement after the problems we saw at Digg.



However, I would have rather like to see an integration of the Weblogs Inc with it, hence putting its audience in a more powerful state and contributing more effectively with the writers of the network.



A better audience experience - that is the next phase in the growth of Blog Networks.