9rules Peaked in 2005

9rules, the fun, well designed, and wacky blog network that also pretends to be a legitimate business (but owns nothing and can only sell ads to itty-bitty companies that themselves will be out of business in 18 months) is flailing around just like you'd imagine. A look at their recent Alexa traffic, compared with theequally lame but far less prentetious "flagship" of another "blog network", The Blog Herald, shows that they peaked in '05 and have been on a downslide ever since January. Meanwhile the more-or-less useless Blog Herald continues to grow. Both sites have pretty meager traffic to begin with, but this just gives you an idea of what to think when the fearless leader of 9rules puts himself in the same sentance as Calacanis.