Dipping into the Blogpond

The Australian Blogs Community is rocking along nicely – we’ve now got 40 46 members and 47 60 blogs. Recently added blogs (since last update): aqualung Crapping on about whatever I feel like Business and Blogging Thinking Home Business Enjoy Perth! Patrick Hawke Alternative Fuels Tonic Gifts Diva Days The Tall Poppy Social Media in […]

Updating the list of 100 Top Australian Blogs each week is quite an onerous task (of course made infinitively easier by the script written by Scott Yang). This is further complicated by needing to inset the table into the page. The other day I discovered a very nifty little WordPress Plugin that allows you to […]

It seems like Fairfax sites the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are switching from Yahoo! sponsored advertising to Google Adsense for Content – as per the Official Google Australia blog – Working with Fairfax. This must come as a blow to Yahoo!, who are just rolling out their new interface for their search marketing. […]

I’ve updated the Top 100 Australian Blogs index. Debuting or reappearing this week are http://www.lifehack.org/ http://mooiness.com http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/ http://www.fashionising.com/lifestyle http://galadarling.com http://www.secretgeek.net http://youngie.prblogs.org/ Apologies to Leon Ho, founder and editor of Lifehack.org for missing his blog previously. You’ll notice it at #2 and with 41,207 subscribers, is obviously a very popular blog!

dLook has today announced the facility to rate and review every business listed on its directory, the first of the major Australian business directories to do so. So as to bring users the most sophisticated and up to date rating system available, dLook chose a dynamic Australian internet start-up Rave About It to power the […]

Just a quick progress update on the BUMPzee Australian blogs community. Many thanks to the members who have joined the community. So far we have 20 26 30 members and 22 31 34 blogs, and 602 entries (aka posts). Remember, you can submit more than one blog, and you can join the community without submitting […]

After crunching through Alexa (Australia) data and some 300 websites, I’ve managed to come up with a list of the Top 100 Australian websites visited by Australians. What qualifies as an Australian website? A “.com.au” or “.net.au” extension is a great give away. Other than that it involves visiting the site and determining whether it […]

I noticed via Cameron Reilly that Fairfax have added another blog to their blog central  – it’s called Start Up Stories and, according to Cameron is the “brainchild” of James Farmer founder of Edublogs. Welcome to the world of the Australian web start-up. Whether it’s building a media empire, pioneering the latest technologies or putting […]

Have you heard about BUMPzee? BUMPzee started out as a social networking site for affiliate marketing bloggers, but has grown to include a variety of other communities. While MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog focus on individual blogs, BUMPzee is different. BUMPzee allows like minded bloggers to join communities according to their interests, where the focus is on […]

Have you heard about Red Bubble, an Australian Startup? What is RedBubble? Essentially it’s a site that allows aspiring Australian artists and photographers to display their work for sale. RedBubble will organise prints to be made of the selected artwork for a set fee. The artist gets to set a price above what RedBubble will […]