Jun 28 2007
Weekly Update 28 June
1. New blogs debuting in the Top 100 Australian Blogs
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 Blogs Community
VK3ZDD’s antenna blog
Mal’s Meanderings
Marketing Tilt Marketing Concepts Traffic Solution
.:EQUUS:.
Sea Eagle’s Free Wallpapers
3. Other Mentions
Stephen Phillips over at plugger has kindly been displaying a banner promoting the Top 100 Australian Bloggers. This was unsolicited and a terrific gesture towards promoting Aussie bloggers.
Have you tried plugger yet? I’m a convert 
4. On the matter of trust
The SMH ran an article by Darren Levin (BTW – why are newspaper items called “articles” and blog items “posts”?) entitled “Truth First Casualty of the Internet?” He begins:
More people are tuning into what bloggers have to say, but should we trust them?
And continues
Populated by anyone with a viewpoint and an internet connection, it’s a daily ping-pong match of unfiltered opinion. But without the traditional checks and balances of mainstream media, can we really trust what’s being said?
He quotes Mark Pesce, new media commentator from FutureSt (though does not link to him)
“If a blogger says something that’s completely outrageous, then another blogger will take them to task on it. If someone has a reputation for being inaccurate, that will become diffusely known within the (blogging) community.”
For Pesce, the checks and balances are there; they’re just a little less obvious. While bloggers are not beholden to stringent editorial policies or a code of ethics, they’re accountable to each other – and their growing legion of readers.
Well worth a read. You might even discover a few new overseas blogs.
4 Responses to “Weekly Update 28 June”
I read the article and thought that it was recycled bollocks. Why wont people just accept that blogs are just that and take them or leave them. Some are great. Some are crap. Some are interesting. Some are dull. All have something to say, valuable or not and take it or leave it. Just like shares, take your own or a professionals advice prior to purchasing.
By popular request I have been looking at ways to make the list of links into a box with a scroll bar. The available options (blogrolling, etc) meant there was no point putting a list on our blogs at all because they were overlooked by spiders etc and would have meant no benefit.
However Sephy from the US blogs community found a fix for the problem. You will still have to update the code regularly but it makes the list take up a lot less space on your blog. You can view what it will look like in my sidebar.
I have just updated the Australian Blogs Community HTML links list files with the new code and the most recent blogs, if you want to put it on your blog you can get a copy of it here – fraudstars.info/~snoskred/aussieatoz.txt – A to Z fraudstars.info/~snoskred/aussieztoa.txt – Z to A (The down-under version!)
The links in the list still count towards raising your page rank and technorati stuff, so give out some link love today, it’s coming back to you! 😉
Cheers!
Snoskred
http://snoskred.blogspot.com/
Yeah I saw this article too … and agree with Mark Pesce and Colin Campbell. At the end of the day, it is the readers and commentors — the community — of a blog that determine its influence. Increasingly communities are turning to blogs and their authors not for opinion, but for a way of filtering out all the noise.
Hi Colin & Gavin
Thanks for your comments. I agree – and I think blog consumers are pretty savvy about sorting crap from clay. You can’t have influence without an audience….