yea I was a member of AU a while back, it was pretty good...just took a lot of time at the time, so I quit it. I guess I should re-visit it since a lot of the grunt work can be outsourced. if anything, it would just be another tool in the arsenal.

the only thing about rewritting PLR is it either takes a lot of time or can be costly when you are looking to scale really big. that's why I'm kind of leaning towards using RSS feeds as primary content for the blog networks. however to avoid dup content and footprints, you really need to have a lot of rss feeds, randomized, mashed up, and even maybe rewritten a bit (such as with synonymizer plugin)

surprised there hasn't been more responses yet...hopefully this topic isn't over a lot of peoples heads here