The Philippines has emerged as one of the world’s leading blogging (and problogging) countries, so it comes as no surprise that the archipelagic nation has given birth to another blog network, namely Blog Pilipinas.

Taking from the network’s About page:

Blog Pilipinas is a Philippine-based blog network that aims to provide free domains to Filipino bloggers while allowing them to generate income from blogging all together.

Five new blogs have joined the roster of blog network b5media, three of which are travel-oriented:

• The Denver Traveler—“From Invesco Field at Mile High to the public library, you’ll find all sorts of information and resources for the Mile High city and surrounding area.”


• The New York City Traveler—“shares this huge city with us in manageable, bite-sized pieces”


• The Vancouver Traveler—“brings us nuggets of information about all there is to see and do in the greater Vancouver area”


• Showtime Fan—“covers the original programming on the Showtime Network: from Weeds and Californication to Dexter and the L Word”


• iPhone 24×7—‘Nuff said.

We’ve added the NinerNiner Blog Network to our list.

NinerNiner is a collaborative blog network with 28 blogs and counting. They have just launched Tie the Knot, a blog dedicated to Wedding Planning & Preparation.

View the full roster of NinerNiner blogs here.

The Beauty Blog Network has added another member to its roster in the form of Hey, Dollface!

The blog is written by Amber McNaught and features product news and reviews.

Outdoors and recreation network Skinny Moose media has added two new blogs to its roster:

• Fish Paradise, dedicated to fishing adventures in the Florida Keys; and


• Downeast Sporstman, which focuses just on the downeast region and is home to a new sportsman’s club.

We have added another network to our list — The College Blog Network, a network of college student and teacher blogs. Here’s an overview:

The point of the site is meaningful blogs without the spam and drivel of sites like Technorati and Blogger. Our first school is the Rochester Institute of Technology where there is already a thriving blog community or more than 50 student and teacher blogs with more coming in every day. We are trying to promote the site to other schools to get more people interested.

Blog network Shiny Media and LG has joined forces to create a moblog by the name of City Clickers. From the Shiny press release:

Just take a picture on your mobile, e-mail it directly to the site and you could be in with a chance of winning one of ten LG Viewty phones plus free phone bill for two months. The winners – as voted for by a panel of judges comprising the main European blog networks – get to become our official photographers for 8 weeks.

VirtualHosting.com has compiled an impressive list of the Top 100 Social Media & Social Networking blogs—not a small feat by any means!

Some of the blogs which made it to the list (not in any order):

• Mashable


• Blogster.com


• TechCrunch


• Blog Herald


• Scobleizer


• Pluck


• Official Google Blog


• Chris Pirillo

Check out the full Top 100 here.

Giant blog network b5media has added a trio to their already-formidable lineup:

• Disney Society—covers the ins and outs of Disney Channel original programming as well as Disney movies.


• Evening Talk—all about late night TV.


• SF Universe—all about the SciFi genre – television, movies and print.

Wisdump’s Thord Daniel Hedengren has an insightful post on using sub-networks within a blog network, a tactic employed by BNW’s mother outfit Splashpress Media.

To quote Thord:

The benefits with sub-networks within a blog network are:

• More visible network linking to relevant sites, while still having the opportunity to do traditional blogroll-style links to the rest of the network.


• Borrowing reliability strength across the sub-network. A young and promising blog will have it easier if the first time reader sees one of his old favorites being closely networked with it.


• Branding the sub-networks helps when releasing new blogs into the network, it will immediately borrow from the sub-network’s established brand, and therefor seem more complete than it actually is.


• Better traffic opportunities between sub-networked sites (compared to a massive links list).