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Dipping into the Blogpond » Welcome — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:39:09 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:25:00 +0000

Why say ‘bullocks’, should it not be ‘bollocks’?

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Top 100 Australian Blogs | Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:43:28 +0000

[...] Down in Melbourne The Age newspaper published an article about the list, which some bloggers, like Duncan Riley, were not impressed with. [...]

By: Gillian Polack

Gillian Polack — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:05:32 +0000

I was thinking just how many food blogs there were. I guess it’s all in what you’re looking for.

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:03:04 +0000

Trevor

You make a very valid point – just because you stick an RSS feed on something doesn’t make it a “blog”.

Your point about Frank Arrigo may well be valid, being part of the msdn may disadvantage him to some extent – if I factored in an Alexa Rank of 12 it just wouldn’t be fair (for obvious reasons), so an average is applied.

By: Trevor Cook

Trevor Cook — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:28:30 +0000

I agree with you. Of course, no methodology is perfect nor is it going to make everyone happy. Some of the inclusions on the list like the two abc program sites are not actually blogs. And I was surprised to see Frank Arrigo so low on the list. In any event there were no fairfax blogs on the site and maybe the mystery blogger quoted was a pissed off colleague of the journalist! Hey, I’m an old cynic.

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Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:33:25 +0000

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By: Ben Hamilton

Ben Hamilton — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:28:32 +0000

Perhaps the fine folk at Hitwise could assist with providing a ‘real’ look at the situation.

By: Simone

Simone — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:17:24 +0000

As mentioned elsewhere, I also can’t imagine a bigger blog than Problogger in Australia, and definitely not many!!! How silly!

I have a feeling where the bits about tech and overseas readership comes from. Maybe because Technorati and Alexa were used for the list? (not that I know anything about it, it’s just what I have heard. Especially about Alexa, there’s a plugin for Firefox users (for example, my non-tech blog has about 70% IE users). Again about my blog: it’s not on Technorati at all, I’m having trouble claiming it, so my ranking there is 0. But my Alexa ranking is quite good, so I’d probably make the list if I had a technorati ranking(says Meg).
Just to be clear though, that wasn’t my quote, and I can’t imagine there being biggers sites than Darren’s. And mine might be up there, but I certainly wouldn’t be at the top! (I’m getting more and more curious to where I would be though, even though it doesn’t mean much! Damn Technorati and there non-existent support!!)

Also, Karen Cheng is right up there(15), and that isn’t a tech blog, though does have quite a large readership overseas, I believe.

And didn’t Meg use the Australian Alexa rank especially so that it was a bit more geared towards what people are reading in Australia anyway?

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:14:19 +0000

Well said. Pathetic. And pathetic of the journo to run such a comment. Especially in Melbourne – you’d like to thing they’d be proud of their boy doing so well, not just on the Oz list, but globally. Darren really should live in Brissie and it would be front page in the Courier Mail – “Queenslander Top International Blogger!”. And I agree with others, the best thing about all this is that some of us are finding and talking with others of us.