Why do we not have more top bloggers?
As a follow-up to my post on South Africa’s Top Bloggers, as ranked by Technorati, I whipped out my calculator, and did some number crunching.
There are approximately 16 million blogs tracked by Technorati.
I’ve been told that there are about 30 000 active blogs in South Africa.
That means we represent about 0.002 % of all blogs.
As I pointed out in my post, we also represent only 0.00045% of the Top 100,000 ranked posts on Technorati.
That means that we should have FIVE times as many Top 100,000 blogs as we do right now.
Of course:
1. I probably have not got a full list of our Top Blogs. (Help me update it by leaving a comment below if you know of a blog that is in the 100 000 rank on Technorati)
2. The audience ie. blog readers is also skewed away from South Africa, and if the theory that there are more people who read blog than people who blog, this would also affect South Africa.
But still.
Any comments?
For some reason in my perception, the blogging phenomenon is still not clearly understood.
There are those who think of blogs as a geek territory and those who are totally misinformed about what blogging is all about.
How often have you had goose pimples every time a simplistic definition for a blog being an ‘online diary’ or comments such as ‘Why on EARTH would i be reading into someones personal diary everyday’.
I think that remark was made by a very well known and influential talk show radio host. The blind leading the blind.
I agree. I consider myself to be “web savvy”, yet I only jumped on the blog bandwagon this year. So there are definitive misconceptions. Hopefully my magazine (Internet Guide) will begin a change.
[...] Note: There is a post about the the under-representation of SA Top Bloggers relative to All Top Bloggers here [...]
i’ve noticed there are a lot of blogs linked to amatomu that aren’t on technorati i don’t think… like steve se spoeg blok, wild watch, home deco, peas, green tea and tan lines
i also noticed on amatomu that sports blogs get far more hits- but there are less of them than
“life” blogs.