manage blog network

So I wanted to start my own blog but just as I was going to start a friend of mine offered me his blog (very similar) but a bit older has some visitors(<100) however and needs some work on SEO and content. He no longer has time or motivation to maintain it. Should I start fresh or grab his blog...

I'm at the point where I have so many sites that I need to find an easy way to manage them from one platform. These are WP sites (privately hosted), and other free 2.0 sites like .wordpress and .blogger. Basically, I'm hoping to hand this off to a VA eventually, and I want something simple for...

There are some great deals here on some micro niche packages. I scraped together some bucks and am planning to push out about 30 blogs by Jan. 1st. But the big hold up is that I'm not sure how to manage them. I have a couple of blogs that are doing ok in the SERPs. But a blog network seems to...