We’ve just received a press release from Instablogs:

NEW YORK, NY. August 19, 2008– Instablogs today announced that it is opening its blog network membership by launching the Instablogs Club.

By opening its network, external blogs can now apply to become members of Instablogs Club and enjoy the benefits that its blog network members have been enjoying.

“We decided to open our network to external bloggers so that they can also enjoy some of our network benefits, including but not limited to traffic, ad sales, technology, and networking with our great members,” Ankit Maheshwari, CEO of Instablogs, said.

“The Instablogs Club consists of those who host and maintain independent blogs and would like to avail our platform and showcase their content to millions of Instablogs readers each month. Our aim is to showcase the best blogs on a variety of topics and help bloggers get more exposure,” he added.

The Club is looking for bloggers who are passionate about their blog– one that provides compelling content, consistent in his or her frequency of posting, and is willing to share their knowledge and expertise to other members of the Club.

Club members stand to benefit from Instablogs traffic, revenues, and a vibrant community of blog network members.

Launched in 2005, Instablogs Blog Network enjoys more than 2 million page views per month. The Club will work to drive traffic to each member and benefit from this attention.

The Club will also assist its members earn through its interactive advertising sales team that will monetize each member’s inventory. This way, members can focus on blogging and earn on the side.

The Club is currently accepting applications and will be announcing its first batch of members next month. Interested bloggers may apply online at http://www.instablogs.com/instablogs-club/.

We received this press release from the Green Options network:

Green Options Media launched its 15th blog today, The Inspired Economist. Focused on “green” and conscious business, The Inspired Economist highlights the matrix of economic and social trends transforming capitalism, and the individuals and companies applying passion and innovation to economic and environmental challenges.We’re focused on what’s working in terms of sustainability and social justice in the business world.

Visit the new blog here.

One week after blog network Splashpress Media launched Performancing Ads, the young ad marketplace has reached a couple of milestones already:

1. Over 1300 blogs and websites added

2. Over 450 ads created and booked

3. Thousands of dollars in advertiser buys

The platform is being billed as the “ultimate advertising solution for both blog publishers and advertisers.” Read the Splashpress announcement here.

AOL has launched a new site, just after the recent shutting down of their other properties due to budgetary constraints. The blog, Fanaticos falls under AOL’s Latino division. As Blog Herald reports:

The Spanish-language blog covers football/soccer, baseball and boxing from the United States, Mexico, Latin America and Spain. Nine sports bloggers comprise the editorial launch team.

Visit the new blog here.

Blog network Splashpress Media (owner of Blog Network Watch) has recently launched Performancing Ads, billed as the “ultimate advertising solution for both blog publishers and advertisers.”

As announced on the Performancing blog, the platform is “becoming the largest (and most diverse) network of publishers for the 125×125 ad format.”

Learn more about Performancing Ads here, or visit its main site.

In the past days, the b5media network added four new blogs. Three of them joined the Travel and Culture Channel, while the last entered the Music Channel:

• Travel Product Guide — “will focus on all the products you’ll need for travel”
• The Phoenix Traveler — “There’s lots going on in the desert year round, so stop by to get some ideas to on how to add some fun into your trip”
• Travel Photo Daily — “will take you around the world in photos”
• Canadian Music News — “brings you the latest videos and news on artists from Canada”

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

The giant blog network takes to the skies with the return of the Flightnest, which the network describes as “considered to be one of the best blogs about our little flight industry.”

The blog was one of the first b5media properties way back in 2005.

Visit the Flightnest today.

The b5media blog network introduced a new trio over the past few days:

• Gleaming Things — “For those of us who love sparkly jewelry and gems (who doesn’t love sparkly jewelry and gems??)”
• Canadian Music News — “if you love Feist, Michael Bublé, Nickelback or the many up-and-coming artists in [Canada], you’ll want to bookmark this blog”
• Simply Home Remedies — “stop over, drop her an email and see what you have lurking on your kitchen shelves that will solve your problem while saving you a bundle in office or service calls”

Michael Arrington of the TechCrunch fame has just expanded his online properties with TechCrunchIT. From Arrington’s announcement:

The site is focused on the enterprise tech space – all the software, technologies, standards, platforms, etc. that help companies do their thing, and form the building blocks of the products we feature on TechCrunch, MobileCrunch and our other blogs.

And from TCIT’s about page:

TCIT is dedicated to obsessively profiling products and companies in the Enterprise Technology space. TCIT aims to promote an understanding of emerging and existing Enterprise technologies and to analyze their commercial, social, and consumer impacts.

Visit TechCrunchIT.