Comments on: Top 100 Irish blogs

By: Graeme

Graeme — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

No doubt I’ll be nowehere near the top of this list. Nice idea though!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Must sign up to this. See if my site can beat yours.

By: YOUNG IRELANDER

YOUNG IRELANDER — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Seems like a glorified popularity contest to me.

I have to add a piece of HTML to my blog? I don’t think so…

By: janine

janine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

thanks for commenting graeme - i was not aware of your blog and i always like finding new ones
what’s so wrong with a list of popular irish blogs young irelander? for those new to irish blogs, it’s a great way to get into them instead of sticking a pin in a list of 500 of them. and for irish bloggers, it’s very interesting to know who the movers and shakers are and what’s so bad about adding a link to your blog? you already do it for sitemeter and many of us do it for flickr / blogroll integration etc…

as for you anthony, come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough ;p

By: Young Irelander

Young Irelander — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Janine,

What is the point of it? To quote the Babblogue blog, “I wonder if the winner gets a tiara and a bouquet?”

It won’t give us a definitive number one blog as people are required to add a link to the thing to be counted.

Furthermore, I feel it is wrong to associate alot of visitors with great blog content. I could get more visitors than another blog but that doesn’t mean I have better written content.

Ultimately I think it’s just a great big backslapping contest. Count me out!

By: janine

janine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

young irelander, i never said that this list showcases the best irish blogs!

however, i think it definitely has a place and is a worthy initiative. music charts may not represent the best songs, but “best” is a very subjective notion. they represent the songs which people bought or downloaded the most and that cannot be argued with. i think that a list of the most visited irish blogs is interesting and valuable.

furthermore, i said my favourite aspect of this site was the categorisation of irish blogs - a cooncept which i have not seen previously on other irish blog resources.

sure, blogger vanity comes into it as well but sure there’s no harm in that it’s all a bit of fun! and nobody is forced to join in - you can stand on the moral high ground forever if you want :p

By: Young Irelander

Young Irelander — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

janine

“they represent the songs which people bought or downloaded the most and that cannot be argued with”

But music charts aren’t exclusive like this Irish chart which requires blogs to sign up. That can’t be argued with.

“i think that a list of the most visited irish blogs is interesting and valuable.”

It’s a false representation of the most visited Irish blogs though. Look at a site like Slugger O’Toole which probably gets well over a 1000 hits a day, if it doesn’t sign up then the list is a farce!

“and nobody is forced to join in - you can stand on the moral high ground forever if you want :p”

Hey, standing on the moral high ground is what I do best.;)

By: janine

janine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

young irelander,
irishblogs.info isn’t exclusive - any irish blogs can join!
at the moment it has only just started so the list is nonsense - hence why my humble blog is featuring! but give it a few weeks, when the heavyweights join up, and i think it will be a valuable resource. and if they don’t sign up, it’s because they don’t want to be involved - each to their own.

i really can’t understand your gripe about needing to sign up. to be honest, i would be worried if you didn’t need to sign up. since the *only* way of tracking all the blogs involved is to insert the same tracking code on them, this is a hypothetical argument. but i would not be happy if a top 100 blogs chart *automatically* included all blogs and tracked them and made their traffic details public and included them in the chart without their owners’ permission! i think it’s far more sensible that people opt in rather than have to opt out…

By: maca

maca — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’d have to side with UI on this. It should be “Top 100 Irish Blogs” … “excluding equally good if not better Irish blogs which decide not to take part” IMHO.

By: janine

janine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

not quite as catchy a title there maca! but fair point and maybe an asterisk will be added in due course stating that terms and conditions apply!

but this kind of top sites concept has been around a fair while, seldom as well executed as this - normally it’s a big “vote for me” fest with banner ads at every turn. however, they never include *all* sites from the genre - it’s just a voluntary thing, so the list is a subset and that’s pretty clear.

like i said, i would be far more concerned if there was some sinister force out there that could automatically sniff out any irish blogs on the www and track their traffic and reveal all at irishblogs.info :p