Scribbit recently led me over to Mamablogga and her delightful little list of successful ‘Mommy Bloggers’. I was surprised to know most of those already, and pleased to find some more great reads to add to my daily rota.
Then I looked at the sites mentioned carefully and noticed something.
All (bar one excellent Canadian) are American.
Where are the Aussies, you might ask?
Then I wondered: how many Australian ‘mummy blogs’ (I’m spelling it ‘our’ way) are in Technorati’s top 6000?*
It’s hard to figure. I went to the Australian Blog Index and did a search. Granted, I’m sure its not the most comprehensive of databases going around, but I was surprised at the number it gave back to me.
Four.
There are four of us in the top 6000. An example of one other being the glorious Kiddley/Loobylu, whose presence is being missed in the blogging world.
What is the significance?
Not much, probably! I was curious to know, and my curiosity has served me well (and bad) in my life. Blogging is not nearly as prevalent here in Australia as it is in America and other countries. I was reading in the paper the other day that 37% of the total blogs in the world are written in Japanese. You also have to consider how teeny tiny our country is– a smidge over 20 million people. I googled America’s most populous cities and found that we could be easily contained in just the top seven (NY, LA, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix and San Antonio).
Summary: my question is, is there any way of pulling up lists from Technorati that list blogs by country, namely Australia?
Edited: I’ve found not one but two! Craig Harper has one on his right sidebar (You’ll have to scroll down to halfway to find it) and an even more detailed one here. I originally drafted this post last week, so I hope it’s not dated already!
*That arbitrary number is not so arbitrary. My ego is large enough to want to include my own in the tally.
