Since I’ve worked on personal injury cases that were sealed and cases with non-disclosure agreements, I can understand your reluctance to comment, for legal reasons, on what transpired during your meeting with b5 Media in Toronto last month. Nevertheless, it doesn’t assauge my curiosity.

Secondly, your experience has made me reluctant to accept offers to join-up with a blog network. I’ve had two so far. However, it doesn’t mean I won’t do it.

Finally, I look forward to your next project. Also, keep Duncan Riley.com feisty. I find it an enoyable read.

Great luck to all parties involved regardless of What Really Happened behind the B5 grassy knoll.

An f-bomb would be appropriate somewhere around here. Duncan, blog networks are NOT here to stay. They are nothing more than a website ring with some form of content aggregation involved. And what happened to those web rings? Exactly. And being that so-called blog networks define themselves slightly differently, there is little legal basis for an NDA. Unless the mechanics of b5’s plan was laid out in excruciating detail. In that case you would have an exact roadmap for circumventing their plan and avoiding encroachment on their intellectual property.

Anyways, I don’t expect this short note will influence your next move. You probably recognize that the blog network model is broken in a couple of ways, even if you can’t put your finger on it. So can forgive me for expressing my outrage over how seriously some companies who shall go unnamed take themeselves.

Good luck with whatever you work on next.

Askmen.com is by far more of an online magazine. You wouldn’t think it doesn’t have an editor from the way content is organized.

Duncan, you’re still cool man. Nobody is indispensable and just keep on going. Whether there’s a legal clause to your silence or not, it doesn’t matter; its better if things are left unsaid.

No offence meant to your business.