Jul 19 2007

Weekly Update 19th July

Published by at 10:48 pm under weekly updates

1. New blogs debuting in the Top 100 Australian Blogs

2. New blogs on the Australian Blogs Community

Cheap as Chips
i-Weddings.com.au
I Reckon
Inside the Dishevelled Mind
A Strangled Duck
Red Block
Cook (almost) Anything at Least Once

3. Aussie Blog Post(s) of the Week

A few links this week.

Stephen Mitchell has some interesting blogging statistics, but ponders the question “I wonder what the statistics are for Australian bloggers?”. As do I Stephen.

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Janette Toral has done an analysis of an older version of the top 100 Aussie blogs according to their “blog juice“. Blog Juice combines the number of bloglines subscribers (40% of the score), Alexa rank (15%), Technorati (30%) rank and number of inbound links on Technorati (15%).

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Australianblogs.com.au has written about the State of the AustralianBlogs-osphere, and produced a list of the 1, 299 “noisiest blogs”. It’s based on the number of backlinks on Yahoo!. They claim:

This list is by no means watertight and some of the methodology is a bit…dodgy (yes, there are some duplicate entries and glaring network site anomalies), but it’s good for a laugh.

I trolled through the top 500 or so to see if I could find any more blogs that should be in the top 100 list (and I’ve just realised somehow I managed to go through the Spring 06 list – d’oh! There’s another job for next week). Anyhow, that’s how I discovered a quite a few blogs that are either new to, or hovering just outside the top 100 list.

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Blog post title of the week has to go to Colin Campbell “Australia Fraudband Speeds Shocking“.

4. Spotlight on an Aussie Blogs Community Blog (Bumpzee)

Bryce over at A Strangled Duck (upside down in a nerdy river) joined the Aussie Blogs Community this week. He sent me a message suggesting that perhaps it might be a good idea to review a blog in the community each week (and offered to help out). Bryce has also started up a WordPress community on Bumpzee, which I think is a fantastic idea and I promptly joined.

I thought it only fair to start the reviews with Bryce. It’s a new blog, just started at the beginning of June. For the most part, Bryce’s posts are short and pithy. Probably, my favourite post is “It’s not all about you“, which illustrates an insight into human behaviour. The blog design is nice and clean, and is easy to read, and I’ve subscribed to his feed. I’m interested to watch how Bryce’s blog develops.

Oh, and did I mention Bryce is fourteen?

9 responses so far

9 Responses to “Weekly Update 19th July”

  1. # Snoskredon 19 Jul 2007 at 11:50 pm

    I’m hugely impressed with Bryce. 😉 Looking forward to reading more of his posts.. 😉

    I have updated the links list, and a special note this week –

    If you have put the Australian Blogs Community links list on your sidebar can you please update it this week to the latest version. Two blogs have changed URL’s and we have several great new blogs on the list as well. :) You can get the latest version here – fraudstars.info/~snoskred/aussieatoz.txt – A to Z fraudstars.info/~snoskred/aussieztoa.txt – Z to A (The down-under version!) Thanks everyone!

    I’ll drop round and comment on all the new blogs late tomorrow, off to bed here at Chez Snoskred!

    Snoskred – has a new home at –
    http://www.snoskred.org/

  2. # Bryceon 20 Jul 2007 at 8:06 am

    Thanks for the awesome review Meg :)

  3. # Megon 20 Jul 2007 at 1:36 pm

    @ Snos – thanks for updating the list.

    @ Bryce – you’re most welcome. I wish you every success with your new blog, and commend you on your effort to date :)

  4. # stephenon 20 Jul 2007 at 2:47 pm

    @ Meg – Thanks for the pingback. Now I have a tonne of reading to do…
    BTW, I like your page showing the top 100 Australian Blog’s. I will have to visit it more often to see which are listed at blogshares.com!

  5. # Megon 20 Jul 2007 at 3:03 pm

    @ Stephen – you’re welcome. Golly blogshares.com – now there’s another way to chew up a few hours!

  6. # a strangled duck » Great Reviewon 20 Jul 2007 at 5:54 pm

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  7. # Michael Blochon 20 Jul 2007 at 10:29 pm

    I was pleasantly surprised to see Taming the Beast on the list Megan :). Thanks for compiling the list, it’s given me some more interesting blogs from fellow Aussies to peruse!

  8. # Megon 21 Jul 2007 at 9:30 pm

    Hi Michael

    (Sorry, for some reason Akismet was being over protective with your comment.)

    There are a lot of great Aussie blogs both on and off the list, sorry for missing yours before :)

    Thanks for dropping by

  9. # Janette Toralon 22 Aug 2007 at 10:40 am

    Thanks Meg for the link love. I’m now working on australia.ratified.org and hope to include all the Australian blogs in it. This will also give a different perspective as it factors in Feedburner subscription and Google PageRank. Cheers!