Denton wouldn't comment on the sale of Consumerist, an advocacy site with attitude that he put on the block last month. And he would only confirm that Defamer, his attempt to break into Hollywood coverage, is for sale.

But I'm told that Consumerist may have fetched something in the "mid-six figure range," and that a logical buyer for Defamer would be BuzzNet, the pop culture blog network that picked up Denton's Idolator music site earlier this year.

Biziki is an existing blog that launched in February 2006. The site currently has one lead blogger. His contract is not transferable but he would likely stay on for a similar arrangement.

The blog is focused on business and related leadership, management, and financial topics.

The blog is profitable - earning an average of $260 (USD) monthly.

The design is included - it's a Chris Pearson designed site. Chris is one of the leading designers for Wordpress.

The current blogger earns 100% of the first $150 and 50% of any remaining income. If you're blogging on your own, you obviously don't need him. That's up to the buyer.

YouTube, Bankrate.com (RATE), eHarmony, and Gawker are on a list of candidates for buyouts shown by an investment banker at a presentation to the Online Publishers Association this morning.

Tolman Geffs, managing director of Jordan, Edmiston Group, said the number of deals for online consumer media companies has nearly doubled in the last three months. There have been 91 in the last nine months compared to 47 in the three previous quarters.

Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker Media, doesn't believe there's really been a big rush of VC money or Big Media interest in blog publishing. He told me Gawker's blogs would cease doing what they do best if they were bought by a mainstream media company.

"Put the Gawker titles in a media conglomerate and they would spontaneously combust," Denton said via e-mail. "Imagine, for instance, how AOL Time Warner would handle the X-rated party photos in yesterday's Fleshbot, or a snide report on Defamer about the latest dross from Warner Brothers, or Gawker's borderline libelous mockery of [Time Warner CEO] Dick Parsons. Without media conglomerates as targets, the Gawker titles would have no purpose. Gawker is not for sale but it is, more importantly, and in a deeper sense, unacquirable.

I created a domain name a few years ago, www.podosphere.com, thinking I might do something with it. I've decided that I won't be, so I thought I would auction it off. Someone out there is planning yet-another-podcasting-aggregation site, I bet.

One of the overlords of the blogosphere with 15 sites and enough buzz to arm every doorbell in the nation, Mr. Denton has watched page views at his sites double in the last year; Gawker Media and Nielsen/NetRatings put monthly unique visitors at 4.2 million. So it comes as a bit of a surprise that Mr. Denton celebrated a very upbeat stretch in the blogging industry by putting two of his sites on the block, reorganizing others and laying off several people.

Laying off journalists? How very old media.

"Better to sober up now, before the end of the party," he said in announcing the realignment. As of last Friday, Sploid, a tabloid-infested site built on screen shots, and Screenhead, an aggregator of video clips, were put up for sale. Editors at Gawker, Wonkette, Gizmodo, and Gridskipper were moved or replaced. At a time when mainstream media companies are madly baking their own piece of blog pie, Mr. Denton was summarily executing underperformers.

All money generated through Adsense and Yahoo ads. When Adsense was up on Damn I'm Cute it was making over $200/mo. Being a celebrity site obviously it should be more geared towards CPM ads or BlogAds. I'm not sure about the yahoo/google ads across the rest of the sites since most of the pages still use the adcode of whoever the author was, but it's a min. of $100/mo. There was a 90 day agreement to remove the ad code once the author departs and we are well past 90 days so there aren't any issues there with regards to putting in your own adcode.

BlogExplosion has definitely been a very rewarding and interesting experience since we launched back in September 2004. We never imagined that BE would become so popular or develop such a devout following. We leave BlogExplosion as one of the leading blog communities on the internet and a top blog destination website. We want to thank all of our members for the support and encouragement to keep us going each day as we met some truely amazing people along the way. There is no way we could have done it without our loyal members and again a sincere thanks to everyone that were always there for us.

Our main site BlogExplosion.com

Our blog helpmeblog.com

Our blog counter site LiveBlogStats.com

Our image hosting site BlogPhotoHut.com

Our blog hosting service BlogCharm.com with 1300 members

Our blog radio station BE Radio

The current high bids are 60K, 65K and 72K. The private auction will be ending today sometime, after which we'll get down to the business of sorting out the transaction. Once that's all done, we'll be announcing the winner at whatever time works best for the winner.

The current high bidders are all looking at the blog as a brand / profile investment more than a pure cash investment. After all, 36 times monthly revenues is a fairly high multiple for any site, even if it experiences 10% growth every month (as Blog Herald does) and could earn more. At 72K, it would likely take someone about a year to earn it back with a redesign and with the growth it's experiencing.

Cleveland Entrepreneur Tony Colan and partner Ed Harrison announced on Thursday they have purchased the domain blogster.com (blogster.com), for $100,000.

The site's programmers rewrote the entire software for blogster.com and took the site live on Thanksgiving Day. The redesigned site features image hosting, a user-friendly interface and pre-designed templates, which provides continuity and easy navigation for blogsters.

"We were attracted to the name immediately," says Tony Colan, VP of Blogster.com. "Blogging is no longer just for teens, techies and political pundits. The growth, we expect, will be explosive, and as a result, we were willing to pay a premium for a domain that will help us build brand awareness in the marketplace."

Blogster.com differentiates itself from the other blogging sites, by eliminating all spam. "We intend to take hard line against spam. We don't want our blogs clogged with all that Internet garbage," Colan said.

How much will Weblogs Inc. cost AOL? One estimate I heard today was roughly $20 million as an earn-out -- to get it all, Weblogs Inc. would have to meet certain goals. But I've also heard talk of Flickr-like numbers, which would make it closer to $30-35 million range. Certainly to Weblogs' execs advantage to have people thinking towards the higher end. Weblogs Inc. revenues are running at $1 million-plus annually from Google AdSense alone, according to numbers jubilantly released by Calacanis on his own blog; during a panel last week he said the company was bringing in $2 million a year. With that in mind, either of those numbers would be a generous multiple.

This story has spread like wildfire across the blogosphere...check Technorati here and Tech Memeorandum here...it might be announced tomorrow AM now, we've learned. Also, Reuters has picked up the story, here. Scoble says he knows of another big blog-related deal about to be announced...

This is the sort of good home that i was looking for — yahoo! obviously has the resources to run and improve blo.gs in pace with the incredible growth of blogs (and syndication in general), and in talking with them it was also clear that we had some of the same vision for the future of the service and the ping/notification infrastructure. for users of the website and the cloud interface, nothing much is changing. The service will continue to be completely open, and both yahoo! and i hope you continue to use it and help it grow.