With hindsight, if you wanted to top-tick the blogosphere, it would probably be Jan 2008 when @johnbattelle turned down $100m for blog ad network Federated Mediahttps://techcrunch.com/2008/01/24/battelle-turns-down-100-million-offer-for-fm-publishing-decides-to-shop-around-for-a-higher-price/ …
Not sure. Many of the sites on the FM network went on to far larger valuations, at least for a spell. TechCrunch, Reddit, Digg, Mashable, Business Insider, all were valued higher, that's just off the top of my head. All started as "blogs" or "blog like".
