Blognation’s lights go out: time for blogosphere to ‘grow up’

Posted by Cyril Gros on December 19, 2007 at 12:49 PM

As weblogs celebrate their 10th anniversary, the threatened blog network blognation.com seems to be nearing its end. When opening the front page, the statement “Will the last one out please turn off the light” appears besides a light switch…

The financial situation of the site is critical, said founder Sam Sethi, with £30,000 of debts and a trail of unpaid writers. Sethi had already planned to auction the site, and several buyers could be interested in purchasing the 13-blog site, which covers the Web startup scene.

Blognation.com’s current situation is strange considering the blog-growing context on the Internet. The volume with which it has come off the road “is in inverse proportion to its importance as a medium”, said Atlas Ventures' Fred Destin.

He also added that it is “Time for the blogosphere to grow up. Trust, transparency and ethics are not concepts you have the right to use because you publish under a Creative Commons license. It is something you demonstrate, not something you talk about.”

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