Hi Jason...

Your plan looks pretty good. There's really not much I can add, other than the details, which are scattered through this forum.

Again, I'd start with BlogBomb, and start adding all of your own RSS pheeds to it. This just makes cross-linking everyting down the road much easier.

For hosting, once your network is generating a little income, I'd get an account at Servint.com . It's a virtual server for about $50 a month, and is managed. This will give you the power you need. Hostgator is OK, until you actually start getting decent traffic, then they'll start shutting down your scripts.

I'd use ZZ Tuel on your cheaper hosting, and Blogbomb on Servint.

All the above are RSS related. Once you have RSS down, move on to content making. I'll try to get more info this month, including more detail on my own spinning methods.

Then use all your content to expand your network. Use the concepts in Tin-Silver-Gold along with the LinkBomb report to get links to your silver-gold sites.