Nov 02 2007

Fortnightly Update for 1st November

Published by at 2:26 pm under weekly updates

Weekly Update

1. New blogs debuting in the Top 100 Australian Blogs

2. New blogs on the Australian Blogs Community

It was quite a big week for the Aussie Blogs Community. Thanks to everyone for their ongoing promotion.

The Secret SGR Program
Magnento Bold Too
Lightening’s thoughts, musings and happenings
In the Raw
Waxlyrical
More Than Scratch the Surface
My Infinite Wisdom Blog
Tex’s chainsaw massacre
Sleepless Nights
A Spot with Pots
in delicto
My Personal Journal
Careful What You Wish For

Reminder: Anybody who would like to add (or update) the Aussie blogs from Bumpzee to their blogroll can find an A to Z list and a downunder version (Z to A). Snoskred keeps these updated weekly.

We now have 178 members and 203 blogs. Is your blog there?

3. Videos of the Week

Well it is election time, so here are two gems mentioned by Alister Cameron – the first is Kevin Rudd who suspiciously appears to be eating a substance obtained from within his year (I know, eeewww). This is also on Digg if you want to give it a nudge (605 diggs). And the second is Tony Abbott, looking a little…. reptilian.

Speaking of videos, in case you haven’t noticed, YouTube now have an Australian site. Featured quite prominently is the distinctive mug of the Angry Aussie – you can read what he has to say about the video in “I am the new God of YouTube“. Who said Aussies are reluctant to shout out? 😉

4. Other News

NaBloPoMo, is upon us. A post a day. Hopefully I can refrain from too much emergency crap. Wish I’d read Jen’s advice before signing up!Snoskred created an Aussie group, which I’ve joined (there’s 31 of us)

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Congratulations to Skellie from Skelliewag. Her meteoric rise to blogging greatness has caught the attention of Darren Rowse, who awarded Skellie with a regular contributer position.

Skellie’s blog is a little over 3 months old, and has attracted close to 1,000 subscribers. This is exceptional growth for a blog in such a crowded niche. It’s full of wonderful hints, and is a recommended read for anyone looking to improve their blog.

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Via Nic HaC at Shifted Pixels. The ACCC comment:

CONSUMERS who get their news from the internet are likely to trust a blog for reliability as much as a mainstream media site, the competition watchdog said today.

Nick adds

This is very cool but also scary, what has made the internet great is its total freedom. Will that be eroded by Australian governments and what can we do to ensure that bloggers cannot be held legally liable if they criticise an Australian Company online.

I agree something that needs to be addressed. Full Story: Courier Mail.

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This fornight’s Carnival of Australia is being hosted by Megan at Imaginif. The next carnival is being held at Small Office Australia so get your submissions in for Martin by Monday.

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Thanks to Tiffany for awarding me the Nice Matters award :)

Nice Matters

I’m having a hard time finding someone to forward this to who hasn’t already been awarded!

Now this award doesn’t look particularly blokey, I know. But if I were to nominate anyone it would be Andrew from On Blogging Australia and Facibus on Blogging, because he’s always supportive of his fellow bloggers and takes a lot of time with his responses to comments on his blog.

And also to Bryce from A Strangled Duck because he does nice things behind the scenes (a digg here, a nomination there, a mention of a blog post on a forum).

So thanks Andrew and Bryce – your “nice” has not gone unnoticed (but I totally understand if you don’t grab the banner).

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That’s it for this fortnight!

14 responses so far

14 Responses to “Fortnightly Update for 1st November”

  1. # Megan over at Imaginifon 02 Nov 2007 at 3:37 pm

    Meg I’m not sure if Kevin07 needs to dig anymore than he already is! And what a crack up Reptilliabbot is. I am loving this election wind up.

    Thanks for reminding everyone about the Carnival of Australia.

    Welcome to the new Aussie bloggers on Bumpzee too. It’s great to see so many new blogs.

    Aveagoodweekend.

  2. # Megon 02 Nov 2007 at 5:13 pm

    Megan

    No worries :)

    You Avagoodweekend too (I’m sure that where you are you won’t “forget the Aerogaurd”)!

  3. # Bryceon 02 Nov 2007 at 5:36 pm

    Thanks for the award :) And no I don’t mind using the banner :)

  4. # a strangled duck - I always knew I was niceon 02 Nov 2007 at 5:43 pm

    […] there’s a problem with me using this banner that was bestowed on me! Hey, I’m nice and proud. I’m going to also pass this along to Bob Baillie for […]

  5. # Megon 02 Nov 2007 at 5:55 pm

    You’re welcome :) and good for you! :)

  6. # Karen (Misc Mum)on 02 Nov 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Phew! And I feel tired just reading all the news!

    I saw Skellie’s gig @ Problogger. Awesome.

  7. # Karen (Misc Mum)on 02 Nov 2007 at 6:16 pm

    Also, I have a question re: the Aus Community Blogroll that you’ve linked there Meg. How do I install that acutally? I just tried and it didn’t work :(

    (Isn’t that a co-incidence b/c I emailed Snoskred about that earlier today!)

  8. # Megon 02 Nov 2007 at 6:25 pm

    Hi Karen

    If you click on the link, copy the whole page, and then paste it into a “text” widget on your sidebar it seems to work a charm (I just did it).

    Let me know if you have any probs.

  9. # Karen (Misc Mum)on 02 Nov 2007 at 6:55 pm

    Nope – no luck.

    I’ll email you about it if I can’t get it to work. I’ll stop hijacking this topic!

  10. # Andrew Boydon 02 Nov 2007 at 9:16 pm

    Hi Meg,

    thanks so much for the Nice Matters award – awesome :)

    I am not sure that I deserve it – I do think that manners are important, and that how a bloke gets and shows respect is not by puffing up but by being a bit gracious. It is about mutual respect, and being a friend is the best way to get friends.

    (and just quietly, and please please don’t tell anyone, but there is a certain enlightened self interest at work there – the women that I like really like being treated with respect… the brownie points are so worth it – and I find that people in general love to be treated as if they are valuable – because they are!).

    Best regards, and thanks, Andrew

  11. # Megon 03 Nov 2007 at 10:48 am

    Andrew

    Of course you deserve it. What goes around, comes around (well in an ideal world)!

  12. # Lighteningon 03 Nov 2007 at 10:56 am

    Hi,
    Just wanted to say thank you for mentioning my blog under your list of new blogs on the Australian Blogs Community. :-)

  13. # Adam Sicinskion 04 Nov 2007 at 10:27 pm

    It is a great honour to be on your list of new blogs on the Australian blog community. You are doing a wonderful service to all Australian bloggers. Keep up the great work, and thank you again for the listing.

  14. # Megon 05 Nov 2007 at 8:44 am

    Lightening and Adam – You’re most welcome, great to have you in the community :)