Dipping into the Blogpond

A Message to MyBlogLog Community owners - please take notice. Do not diminish your reputation by using this mass mailing feature, however tempting it may be. I joined your community because it looked interesting. I know it’s there. I know what you do. Please don’t make me sorry I joined….

1. New blogs debuting in the Top 100 Australian Blogs

http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/

I should give a special mention to Mr Angry, however who moved with a bullet from #76 to #28 - undoubtedly due to his post alli: Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect which has received 376 comments to date!
2. New blogs on the Australian […]

How “mobile ready” are Australian mobile websites? I ran 60 through a few tests and I was truly surprised at the results. It certainly seems that some of the smaller businesses have done a much better job at adapting or creating websites for mobile use….

Just a quick note to welcome the readers of “Harnessing the Power of Blogs” by Emily Ross featured at SmartCompany.
You might find the following posts of interest:
Commercialisation of the Aussosphere
The Mobile Web in Australia

The Ultimate Guide to Productivity
How many Australian Blogs are there?
Local Search Frustration
Utilising Social Media for Australian Websites
Australian Blogs - Hosting and Search […]

Would you risk your credibility as a blogger? Spam tagging also highlights the pitfalls of folksonomy…..

A blogger’s reputation is of paramount importance - both to the blogger and the reader of the blog. This reputation is built on credibility, integrity, transparency and impartiality, but I wonder if that will be affected by the commercialisation of blogging….

Yesterday I had the privilege of being in the first studio audience for the new variety show being produced by WIN Television, due to air next week.
The show is called “Susie” and is hosted by Susie Elelman, who has a long history with WIN and other television networks, various radio programs and is also the […]

1. New blogs debuting in the Top 100 Australian Blogs

http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au
http://adelaidegreenporridgecafe.blogspot.com/

2. New blogs on the Australian Blogs Community
GENNIT
G2007
St Vincents Hospital Darlinghurst - Male Nurses
Goldcoaster
Japanese Ice Cream
Decomposing Trees
MyPhotoBlog
Mary and Martha
Cut the Bullsh*t
What I think about
Souvlaki for the Soul
Small Office Australia
Metroblogging Melbourne
How to Live Online
Disassociated.com
We’ve just notched up 103 blogs and 88 members!

 
By the way any Australian bloggers […]

Like many teenagers, my 16 year old son has a Myspace profile. He was telling me how he’d seen a lot of posts about the senseless killing of seals. Not that he wouldn’t find this disturbing, but there are issues that trouble him more. With his permission, I have reposted his thoughts.
ATTN Everyone posting the […]

How’s this for an interesting (?) bit of trivia.
Checking out Google analytics today, I noticed that Firefox users (on Windows) spend more time on my websites than Internet Explorer users (drill down into visitors/browser capabilities/browser and OS).
Looking at a sample of 100,574 visitors over 2 websites (blogpond and dLook), of which 15.22% (n=15,307) […]