Dipping into the Blogpond

Did you know that Technorati are tracking 109,000,000 blogs? Kind of makes me feel like a grain of sand on the beach, or a tiny star in a galaxy. So how do you stand out from the crowd?

Daniel Mifsud was voted out of this week’s Australian Idol.

Well, I’m sitting here looking at my notes, contemplating a play-by-play of this week’s Australian Idol “judge’s-choice-of-song” episode. As a diversion, I notice Cellobella’s done her weekly wrap, which leads me to another by PetStarr at Bland Canyon. This is a thoroughly witty review of the episode, which has me totally uninspired to even attempt a round up this week. But here are a few comments anyway.

Blogpond.com.au fortnightly update for 18th October. New blogs debuting in the top 100, new blogs to Bumpzee, and news from around Australia.

Advanced Hair studio has a poll that allows you to try different hairstyles for John Howard and Kevin Rudd. Very clever marketing.

In what might come as a shock to quite a few people, Ben McKenzie was voted out of Australian Idol this week. Australian Idol round up for this week.

So how do you find out how many Google Reader subscribers there are for your feed (or someone else’s)? Is this figure a reliable metric to compare websites?

Google refers over 95 percent of Search Engine Traffic to this website. Does this reflect Google’s share of the local search market in Australia?

Just in case you hadn’t heard, the Australian federal election has been called for November 24, 2007. I’ve included a few resources to election sites.

Comments certainly do weigh heavily towards the content of a blog post. A follow up showing what happens when you eliminate “suspect” words from comments.