We have added The Finance Blog Network to our watchlist. TFBN is a personal financial blog network made up of two groups, Members and Associate Members.

TFBN currently consists of four blogs.

Visit The Finance Blog Network here.

We have added the College Money Network to our watchlist. From their About page:

[A] group of personal finance blogs run by college students, grad students, and recent grads. We have come together to bring you the best content possible to help college students and recent grads improve their finances in college and after college. While we all write about personal finance, we come from diverse backgrounds, and each one of us has our own unique perspective and voice.

CMN currently consists of seven blogs.

Visit the College Money Network here.

Om Malik’s GigaOm network has acquired jkOnTheRun, a blog on mobile gadgets. jkOnTheRun becomes the sixth blog in the network.

In his announcement, the network’s founder and senior writer explains their choice of blog to acquire:

Strategically, it’s a publication that rounds out our existing areas of coverage. For instance, GigaOM tracks the world of web infrastructure pretty closely, but very rarely do we write about cloud client machines.

In related news, we’ve also added GigaOm (or Giga Omni Media) to our watchlist. We know, we know — we should’ve done this sooner. But as they say, better late than never.

Aside from jkOnTheRun, other GigaOm properties include:

• WebWorkerDaily
• NewTeeVee
• Earth2Tech
• OStatic
• GigaOm Jobs

We have added the Content Quake network to our watchlist. From their About page:

Content Quake was started by two bloggers. They realized that many folks could blog, if only they were given some help. Content Quake gives you the tools to get started blogging fast, in an area that you love.

Content Quake currently consists of over 50 blogs, spread over 15 categories such as celebrities, tech, family, and sports.

Visit the Content Quake network here.

We have added the Life Skills Network to our watchlist. From their About page:

We are an eclectic group of bloggers dedicated to helping you develop the skills needed to live life to the fullest. We cover a broad range of topics ranging from personal finance to green
living to frugality to motivation.

The network currently consists of four blogs whose collective purpose is to be a “one stop shop for getting the most out of life.”

Visit the Life Skills Network here.

We have added the Boston Blogs Network to our watchlist. From their About page:

The Boston Blogs Network is a collaborative effort of a group of Boston-area blogs to promote each other and to sell advertising to local businesses tired of seeing their ad dollars wasted on clicks from people hundreds or thousands of miles away

Boston Blogs currently consists of 30+ blogs. It also has a directory listing 1,000+ blogs across the Boston area.

Visit the Boston Blogs Network here.

We have added the Blorge network to our watchlist. From their About page:

BLORGE is a highly integrated network of news sites covering technology, Vista, Macintosh, gaming, photography, and much more. It was founded in October 2006 by journalist, writer and publisher John Pospisil.

Blorge consists of seven blogs. The network was launched in November 2006 and is owned and operated by Cogent Insights Pty Ltd, which is based in Sydney, Australia.

Visit the Blorge network here.

Technorati has just launched Technorati Media, a blog advertising network.

According to TechCrunch, Technorati is for now “only working with larger blogs, although it will be open to all comers in 2-3 months.”

The new blog advertising network extends Technorati’s reach and value by “matching bloggers and social media creators with marketers who want to join the conversation,” as stated on the network’s home page.

We have added the Money Life Network to our watchlist. From their press release:

The Money Life Network of blogs is a group of personal finance bloggers who have banded together to bring you great content designed to help you improve your finances and increase your quality of life. We have common goals, but we come from diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives. In addition our blogs tend to focus on different aspects of financial life which we think will keep things interesting.

Their roster currently consists of 5 blogs:

• Bible Money Matters – Finances transformed by faith.
• Free From Broke – Exploring ways to keep us Free From Broke.
• Milk Your Money – Got Money? Milk the most from it…
• My Investing Blog – A blog about money: Getting it, keeping it, and growing it.
• Prime Time Money – Learn to Save Money, Get Out of Debt, and Live a Frugal Life.

Visit the Money Life Network here.

The Blog Herald’s Andy Merrett reports:

The BBC has launched its blog network, effectively centralizing and promoting its fifty-or-so home-grown blogs.

The BBC embraced blogging, at least in its simplest form, several years ago but seems keen to push them into the limelight. A number of the BBC’s journalists, DJs, presenters, and other staff maintain blogs, usually to support live events and programmes.

Visit the BBC Blog Network.