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The Last Podcast joins the Grand Effect Blog Network

Sarah Perez invited me to join the Grand Effect blog network a few days ago and as you can see from the banner flying on the top of the page, I accepted her invitation.

Grand Effect is a small tech blog network that Sarah recently founded with the help David Peralty of eXtra For Every Publisher.

Why did I decide to join Grand Effect?

First of all, this is a small network of bloggers that I respect: Sarah Perez of Sarah in Tampa, ReadWriteWeb and Microsoft’s Channel 10; co-founder David Peralty of eXtra For Every Publisher; Corvida from SheGeeks.net; Martin Brinkmann from gHacks, and MG Siegler from ParisLemon.

I think individual bloggers today are best served if they are part of a network – formal or informal. My informal networks is the l33t reddit gang, my formal network is Grand Effect.

Because Sarah is committed to keeping the network small and the quality of the sites high, this is really a win-win situation for everybody involved.

What does this mean for the Last Podcast?

I have always fiercely guarded my independence and that was my #1 concern about joining any formal network. Grand Effect does not put any constraints on what I can write and talk about, so I feel very confident about joining Grand Effect.

In the long run, Grand Effect might start selling advertising and you might see the Adsense ads on this page replaced by other ads.

The only noticeable change for the time being is the network bar on the top of the page.

Thank you Sarah for inviting me to the network and I’m looking forward to working with all the great bloggers Grand Effect bloggers in the future!

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Congratulations! Was this invite the inspiration for your recent comments about blog networks?

Pete – thanks!

I got the invitation to join last weekend, so only what I wrote about blog networks after that was influenced by this – but I started thinking about this after Arrington wrote his roll-up post.

Cool, just curious. It’s food for thought, for sure. If I had a more consistent posting schedule for my tech blog, I’d probably ask you for advice on what I should do to improve things. But for now, I think my job is cut out for me–stabilize the schedule and clean up the design.

Good luck with the network–I hope you get buckets more traffic!

Pete, feel free to hit me up for advice anytime.

Can’t guarantee it will be very sagely, but my email address in the top right of the page.