Bloggy Network Acquires Biziki From Blog Media
We’ve been busy again!! Our lastest acquistion is Biziki.com, bought from Blog Media via a recent sitepoint auction. It’s a blog we’ve had our eye on for a while- not least because it shares the superb, and exclusive eratizine WP theme design by Chris Pearson. We contacted Chris earlier this year to try and get him to do a design overhaul of our whole network and it was tentatively set for this November. Unfortunately, Chris wrote to us to say that tubetorial was just taking up too much of his time and he couldn’t do it. I recall rather a witty comment about fortunes not being made by “icasso” unless there was a “p” in front of it, to which I recommended a more Warholesque approach! So…failing that, we decided to stay with the eratizine theme, which Biziki, Gadzooki and this blog- JOAB- uses. Our thanks to Matt Craven of Blog Media for handling the transaction/transfer in a polite, efficient and professional manner. However, we would like to mention something in regards to this purchase in the spirit of clearing some seeming bad blood (that we were previously unaware of). The previous main blogger of Biziki, Brian Yalung, aka “bryboy”, has posted several things around the net, including at the Blog Herald and on personal blogs- indicating that there was a “misunderstanding” with ourselves (partner site: Word Content) and that somehow the parting of the ways was not good, insinuating in some way that we were at fault. To quote Brian-:
I think I will not be considered by these people since I have some issues with them in the past. I have worked for them in the past and our parting was not so good. While they gave me a good break in the past, I wouldnt be surprised if I will run into trouble with them. This is precisely why I looked to freelance to avoid them.
Ahem...to say nothing of another classic piece of Brian waffle…I don’t want to get into mud-slinging here (actually, maybe I do?), but Brian knows the truth of the matter very well- that he acted unethically and dishonestly. We gave Brian every opportunity in many areas- writing for Word Content, linkbuilding for Link Lander and submitting articles for ArticleSubmission.net. What happened was that Brian was found to be using our software and concepts to promote his own personal agendas. Having confronted Brian with this- it was just a matter of a “ticking off” and he was not fired. He chose to diappear on us instead (probably in shame!) and turned up as the blogger on Biziki. He was fully paid for all his work for us and was at no time mistreated in any way and we take issue with his subsequent insinuations against us. Online reputations are fragile and this is why we write this now. All that is said here is fact and can be backed up by a variety of independent sources. Having said all this, from our end, water under the bridge.
Anyway, we are very pleased to have acquired this blog. A PR6 with some good earnings from Adsense and TLA made financial sense in its own right. But it also fits into our portfolio- with our plan to turn it into a Political Blog. While this may seem a drastic change, politics is a business and a rather dirty one at that. We have already initiated a Business Blog of our own: BizCrunch.net and with the Senate and Congress elections now over in the US, it’s all going to be fun and games with the fight for the White House!
On a personal level, even though I am from the UK, I love US politics. As partisan and media-driven as it may be, it is far more engaging and combative than the rather sedate, irrelevant discussions we have in the UK, or obscene, open corruption in Asia.
What happens in the US matters to all of us and impacts our lives in a very real, tangible way. That makes it exciting.
[tags] biziki,gadzooki,bloggy network,sitepoint,matt craven, chris pearson,brian yalung, political blog [/tags]
