Know More Media, fresh from attaining two milestones a few days ago, has just beefed up its talented roster with a dozen new authors, each of whom can be considered experts in their respective fields.

From the Know More Media announcement:

We’re very excited to have these highly qualified and skilled professionals join our group of business experts. They bring with them many successful years of experience in their specific industries.

The Syntagma network magazine has a great article on the business of blog networking, based on the insights of Gerry Reynolds, a “business consultant specializing in the retail sector”.

Several salient points:

The online content business is a small margin trade — unless you’re prepared to invest heavily ($20m). By that he means that there are few big payouts for individual sales — i.e. of ad space. Big bucks have to be accumulated over time from small sum payments…

Rarely will one site make a living salary for its owner. It does happen, of course, usually for quirky, semi-commercial blogs which catch on for reasons known only to visitors, or sites using below the radar techniques for hoovering up Adsense clicks…

The need, like corner shops, to work with low margins through quantity, while not compromising on quality. A hard call, and only for the determined.

The Know More Media blog network has achieved two impressive milestones in the past days, underlining its growing strength and importance in the blogosphere today.

Last Tuesday, Know More Media announced their 10 millionth visit in less than two years:

Know More Media started just over 19 months ago with a handful of authors willing to band together to deliver business news and information to an audience eager for niche business news and information. Since then our network of blogs has expanded to more than 50 active business blogs and has passed several traffic milestones.

If we assume that the average post is about 150 words, we have published at least 7,500,000 words, which is roughly the equivalent of 75 average full-length novels. When I consider the technology, time, and human power it takes to produce that much original content online, it becomes truly astounding.

b5media has just launched a new blog for their Entertainment Channel in the name of Soaps on ABC.

Written by Dexie Wharton, the blog will cover recaps, news, screencaps and spoilers for the shows All My Children, General Hospital, Night Shift, and One Life to Live.

Visit Soaps on ABC here.

TechDispenser, a blog network launched in April 2007, has just been added to Blog Network Watch’s list. A little about this network:

Tech Dispenser is different because a Computerworld editor hand-selects every blog in the network and categorizes, tags and prioritizes every story coming into the system…The Tech Dispenser Network is a partnership between Computerworld and high-quality tech bloggers like ha.ckers.org, feld.com and chris.pirillo.com.

Stay tuned to BNW for more TechDispenser blog network news.

The juggernaut keeps rolling—b5media has opened three blogs that revolve around four of the most talked-about celebrities today.

First is Beckham Groupie, about the high-profile couple of David Beckham and Posh Spice. This couldn’t arrive at a better time—we all know that the soccer/football stud is set to play for the L.A. Galaxy.

Next up is Rihanna Buff, which will be written by “self-confessed pop culture junkie” Melody Robinson. Last but not the least, FergieFreak casts the spotlight on The Black Eyed Peas’ Stacy Ann Ferguson.

Blog network Splashpress Media has just partnered with Contec Innovations, Inc. for the mobile distribution of blog content via BUZmob, as announced in The Blog Herald by J. Angelo Racoma of SP Media.

Splashpress Media’s mobile portal includes feeds from its various blogs and other content-generating sites. When accessed, the portal will automatically detect a user’s device and browser type, and will serve the content in a format that is readable by that device, and organized according to topic, with easy navigation links. This includes full fledged web browsers, WAP browsers, mobile browsers, and the like.

b5media, fresh from its acquisition of the Level9 blogs, has added four news sites into its Music Channel. This development brings to 24 the number of b5media music blogs.

The four new blogs are as follows, as described by the b5media announcement:

www.therockrelic.com – The Rock Relic is written by a true rock mastermind and explores the classic songs, albums and tracks of Rock n’ Roll.

www.rumorsinmusic.com – The music industry is chalk full of news, announcements and rumors. This blog will address the rumors (good and bad) in the music industry.

www.hiphoproll.com – Hip Hop Roll explores the emerging voices and producers of the always emerging hip hop scene.

www.sheplaysmusic.com – She Plays Music focuses on the significant impacts women have on the music industry. Whether an introduction of a new sound, voice or style, women have always turned heads within music.

The Blog Herald, one of the Net’s best sources of blog and blogging related news and tips, has just launched The Blog Herald China Edition.

This comes just a few months after The Blog Herald opened its Japanese edition. Here are some words from Splashpress Media’s J. Angelo Racoma:

We thought it was worth our while to expand into even more markets. Third biggest in terms of language is Chinese, at about 8% (I think the Chinese market is potentially bigger than the 8% estimated by Technorati, though). So the next logical move would be to open an edition in Chinese.

[The] China edition is humanly translated into Mandarin. We hand-picked featured columns for translation to be sure we reach the intended market with content that is relevant to them, and that is timeless.

Weblogs, Inc. has launched a new Do-It-Yourself blog in the form of DIY Life, which “provides a steady stream of DIY projects, how-to’s, ideas, tips, reviews, even safety recalls”. From the original Weblogs announcement:

Topical areas include home improvement, hobbies and crafts, technology projects, and home and family ideas and tips.