9Rules, so sexless it’s depressing.
Some of you may be familiar with the 9Rules network. It’s a group of blogs who’ve decided they’re great, and have got together to revel in mutual admiration.
If they have meetings, I bet they’re all like, “No seriously - your blog is amaaaazing,” or “You’re such a clear thinker. Why aren’t the corporations listening to bloggers?” Then they all do each other with tofu dildos.
Actually, 9Rules is pretty smart. They have built a network of blogs where quality’s guaranteed. Members swear some sort of blood-oath to share traffic through the central hub, and then benefit from the attention being ’special’ brings.
They recently took on their second wave of blogs (and when I say Second Wave I don’t mean the Arab terrorist group who tried to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, only to be thwarted by the amazingly tenacious Jack Bauer and his comrades at LA’s Counter Terrorist Unit.)
I read a number of blogs by 9Rules members, and there’s nothing adult (or even vaguely sexy) in there at all. That’s a pity - I’ve been looking for decent sexblogs to link too and there’s no easy way to find them.
So here’s my question - if 9Rules aren’t going to get into porn, do you think there’s any demand for a network of quality, no-filler sexblogs? (I do) A blog you could visit to find the best sexblogs online without wading though organic fertilizer? If you do - who should be in it?
(NB: I’m not referring to blogs like Fleshbot and Eros which find sexy stuff online. I mean a blog that would help you find quality sites like Fleshbot and Eros to start with).
yes, I certainly think there would be interest in a metablog. I tend to trust bloggers more than other sources, and I think there is a vacuum in terms of adult content.
Dunno who would be in it, but have some clues as to how. I’ve used Wordpress and the FeedWordpress plugin to form a meta Sri Lankan blog at http://www.kottu.org. All you need is the RSS feed from each site and it pulls them into one blog. You probably already knew that, but I think you’re on the right track.
Thanks indi,
I was thinking more along the 9Rules model. An index of blogs rather than an aggregator of their content (there are plenty of those already). They’d be ‘best of breed’ (which means SugarBank might not make the cut).
I guess I think that there are consistantly interesting sexblogs out there, the aggregators tend to highlight the best posts but often, the blogs they come from, don’t live up to the highlight you see.
Funnily enough I’m also working on a ’sort of’ aggregator of which I’ll discuss more later this week. Don’t worry - I’m trying to avoid another ‘me too’ offering.
Hi Sam,
I agree that the sexblog map is woefully incomplete. I’ve been surfing around maybe 100-150 for since early spring and just the other evening I sort of stumbled upon a whole ‘nother cluster that all are all pretty cross-link with each other but didn’t overlap much with the ones I knew.
There are a couple of informal “quality blog” indexes I know of. Violet Blue keeps one on del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/violetblue/blog) and the blogrolls of a couple of bigger sex blogs (e.g. Bacchus’s Erosblog) form sort of defacto indexes. There are a couple of other true sex weblogs, in the sense that the authors log excerpts and links to posts that appeal to them. Vivian’s Sex Carnival (http://viviane212.blogspot.com/) comes to mind. Private Booth (http://www.privatebooth.blogspot.com/) goes a step further and asks the excerpted bloggers to provide intros as well. Finally Indecentblogging.com appears to have a code of conduct in the sense that most of the blogs focus on salacious content. I find their interface a bit balky to read so they’re harder for me to get into and read consistently.
In other words there are bits and pieces of what you’re looking for but I’m not aware of anyone who takes it the whole 9Rules route.
As far as quality of this blog goes you’ll make it into my next blogroll update. Intelligent insider analysis of the pornography industry is both rare and welcome, at least to me.
figleaf
Figleaf,
Kind words and compliments. Carry on like that and I might just let you have me.
Thanks for the tips. I’m taking your comment as another vote in the yes column. I’ve already had an idea to help bloggers promote but it’s too democratic to act as a filter. I.e. in order to make open I don’t want to decide who deserves to be included (everyone’s welcome - even you Osama, guy needs to chill out a little).
I wonder if over time we can come up with a list. I vote for Violet Blue. Can find ten more? (That’s about three per reader…)
Sam.
“…do you think there’s any demand for a network of quality, no-filler sexblogs? (I do)”
I do, too.
“If you do - who should be in it?”
I should. If you’re looking for eye-candy sexblogs, you’ll be out of luck. If you’re looking for just damn good sex writing, that’s what I do. hell, I’m so literary, I even have an index.
DirtyTalkinGirl aka DTG xxoo
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