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Written by Mike Rundle on April 18, 2006
While we’re busy working on the stuff Paul wrote about in a previous entry, I wanted to highlight some great stuff currently being discussed about 9rules and our members from around the web.
Robert Zolkos likes our nine rules to live by and uses 9rules member Bryan Veloso’s Chaotic Soul theme for WordPress.
Ben likes them too and elaborates a bit with how they fit in with his own life. Dennis Bullock thinks so too, and also has some very kind words to add to the conversation:
“You have heard me say community several times here to describe 9rules rather than network; there is a reason for that. 9rules functions as a community where the basic purpose is for its members to basically feed off of each other to provide the best service to each sites readers and the community as a whole. 9rules doesn’t own the blogs that are part of the community; but instead the blogger does, as they should, and I think that is really what makes them different.”
We’re still getting loads of traffic from “Current Styles In Web Design” which lists 9rules.com and Avalonstar.com as some great examples of what’s hot right now. We were also featured at Web 2.0 News as a cool design 2.0 site. Last but not least, we received an honorable mention at the Web 2.0 Awards. Sweet!
Ryan Carson’s Think Vitamin just launched today, which is a web zine similar to ALA, but only a group of a few people can write for it. I was fortunate enough to be selected for their Advisory Board (along with Dan Cederholm, Shaun Inman, Eric Meyer, among many others) and my first article is titled “How C.R.A.P. Is Your Site Design?” so check it out.
Elliott Back’s “10 Best Designed Blogs” has been ripping up t3h internets the past two days since it was on the front page of Digg and every other social bookmarking site out there. Elliott happened to choose 4 9rules Members as part of his top 10 best designed blogs out there, and we’d have to agree 
April 18th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
I agree with Dennis Bullock about the 9rules approach to community. I’m just curious to find out how 9rules was conceived. What were the starting points behind the whole idea? Or is that secret?
April 18th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Hey Andrew, there’s nothing secret about them
Paul (our CEO) ran a number of his own weblogs under the 9rules.com domain a few years ago on various topics. At the 2005 SXSW festival we talked about opening up 9rules to independent weblogs and creating a community around high quality content. We talked to about a dozen of our friends about joining, and then in the Summary of 2005 we started the 9rules Network officially and have been trying to maintain the same quality standards ever since.
Great, now I’m all nostalgic lol
April 18th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Can I get you guys to link http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/04/16/top-ten-best-designed-blogs/ instead of the cache I’m forwarding to? Thanks
April 18th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
I saw the web 2.0 design article on digg, 9rulers have awesome design and this site is put together rather switfty as well!
April 18th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Thanks Mike - 9rules is a great group of folks are are willing to help nonmember and members a like, always have good content and good looking sites. It gives us a goal to work toward.
April 18th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Wow, all this in a year (or less?)!
Congrats to you guys on all the love you’re getting. It’s well deserved, and I say it not only cus I’m a member ;P
Your designs kickass! As a 3D animator myself I gotta say kudos and respect. If I had the bucks I’d get you to do my site in an instant
April 19th, 2006 at 12:34 am
It’s been a crazy few weeks lately.
April 19th, 2006 at 2:10 am
Mike, you crazy kid. As one of our writers, you should know the site is called “Vitamin”, not “Think Vitamin”
April 19th, 2006 at 10:27 am
I appreciate the plug! One thing that’s sweet about 9rules is that it’s not just the sites with genius designs that are members; but people from all walks are members. That’s definitely a strong point in my mind.
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