9Rules Network

May 3, 2005

I’m proud to announce that kartooner.com is now part of the 9rules Net­work, a blog net­work ran by none other than Paul “Scrivs” Scrivens of CSS Vault and For­ever Geek fame.

As James Archer so elo­quently describes:

The 9rules Net­work is a great endeavor that seeks to help con­tent pub­lish­ers find larger audi­ences for their work. The net­work has a nar­row focus, accept­ing only a small num­ber of sites that pro­vide great content.

It’s also worth men­tion­ing that 9rules is dif­fer­ent from your typ­i­cal blog­ging net­work (I’ll refrain from point­ing fin­gers) in that the con­tent is solely owned by the author(s) of the site. The agree­ment set forth is that both net­work and con­tent pub­lish­ers work together to expose the cre­ative work to a larger audi­ence. In short, the goal is to pro­vide great con­tent and in the process share it with as many folks as possible.

Thanks goes out to my read­ers for your con­tin­ued sup­port and of course Paul and the gang for open­ing the door and allow­ing me to step through. The end result of this endeav­our is split two-fold; more quirky con­tent for you to read and hope­fully a bit more read­ers to share in the fun and conversation.

I’ll end with one of my favorite quotes, by author and speaker Zig Ziglar:

Out­stand­ing peo­ple have one thing in com­mon: an absolute sense of mission.

 

10 comments

Great news buddy. Congratulations!

by Adam Michela on May 3, 2005 at 10:15 am. Reply #

Cool man. Won­der how could I be part of this too. Sure, I’m just begin­ning to rise my Eng­lish blog from the ashes of obliv­ion (betobeto.com/notebook/) but I am def­i­nitely work­ing my butt off to make it rich in qual­ity con­tent. I like to build posts into life­last­ing arti­cles rather than just slap­ping a few words and call it a day. I’m more inter­ested in expo­sure rather than money at this point… guess I’ll have to wait until first round is over. Oh well.

Con­grats!

by beto on May 3, 2005 at 12:40 pm. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions; though I must admit igno­rance as to what exactly the con­se­quences for this are?

by Michael Heilemann on May 3, 2005 at 2:37 pm. Reply #

Adam: Thanks! It should be awe­some, but admit­edly I’m still out in a field scratch­ing my head as to how this’ll work out, I’m con­fi­dent that this will ben­e­fit all par­ties involved, but I’m still a “new­bie” to all of this.

Beto: For the next round I’d sug­gest apply­ing for mem­ber­ship, if you’re really inter­ested. Address­ing qual­ity con­tent opposed to one-liners or whims, it is more dif­fi­cult to invest the time, effort and knowl­edge towards writ­ing mean­ing­ful and long-lasting posts, but the pay­off (in the long run) is more than worth it. After almost 2 years of writ­ing good con­tent you’ll have an archive to ref­er­ence later on in life and pos­si­bly even bind into some sort of book form.

Michael: The con­se­quences are essen­tially increased read­er­ship and expo­sure. There’s also the Adsense dis­purse­ment across the net­work, but I’m more focused on pro­vid­ing good con­tent and increased par­tic­i­pa­tion. I think com­ment­ing on blogs adds a layer of depth to what would oth­er­wise just be a sta­tic article.

by kartooner on May 3, 2005 at 8:46 pm. Reply #

sounds cool man. con­grats. i think i sub­mit­ted some appli­ca­tion to that too but maybe my site didn’t qual­ify or some­thing. any­way, good stuff. but i can’t con­done you quot­ing zig ziglar. :P

by kris on May 3, 2005 at 11:55 pm. Reply #

Con­grats (I think)? I had no idea that 9rules was open for join­ing… where the hell have I been!

How does this change things for you (if you can go into any detail) besides more traf­fic from being part of a net­work? Any cool benefits?

by Max on May 4, 2005 at 10:07 am. Reply #

That’s cool man!
And I like what you said about try­ing to write more con­tent for blogs, vs the occa­sional one liner or link. I started up a new one with that intent in mind, but oddly enough, I have only one lin­ers and links…
http://scottzirkel.com

by Scott on May 4, 2005 at 11:15 am. Reply #

Con­grats, although I too am some­what in the dark as to what exactly 9networks is? Do we want more peo­ple read­ing our lit­tle blogs? Con­grats my good man, you do pro­vide some great content.

by Donnie Jeter on May 5, 2005 at 2:18 am. Reply #

Con­grat­u­la­tions. It seems a very good thing. :)

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