Top Blogs For Week Ending 14 July
Aussiejourno's Weekly Blog Awards are meant to encourage bloggers from all round the world and they give new bloggers the chance to get their work noticed in an increasingly popular forum, alongside the world's most-visited blogs. There is no monetary reward, no live TV coverage, no red carpet interview, but the exposure comes with international bragging rights. If you would like your blog (or someone else's) to be considered for next week's awards, please leave the url here, in the comment section. You can nominate as many blogs as you want. Entries close at midday Greenwich Mean Time each Friday.
1. Phaseout Girl, 2. Carol Cooper, 3. Bob T Bear
4. Grumpy'n'Farting, 5. Rambling Traveller, 6. Chewy
7. Ak-Man, 8. Bartraeke, 9. Suz.50
10. Mushy, 11. Dan Mega, 12. Deborah Gamble
13. Jenera Healy, 14. Cherished 79, 15. Blog Guelph
16. Blue Yak, 17. McGlinch, 18. Yes But Images
19. Ianqui, 20. Random Blethers, 21. Karoline
22. Invisible Studio, 23. Auto Parts, 24. Querkey Turkey
25. Creek Journal, 26. Oz Lady, 27. Gerald the Goat
28. Woman Wandering, 29. Brian in Oxford, 30. Luke Dockery
31. Chumma Chumma, 32. Lotus Reads, 33. Craver vii
34. Fat Hairy Bastard, 35. Goddess, 36. Laurent
37. Magick River, 38. Broken Man, 39. Shashikiran
40. Savannah, 41. Lady T, 42. Scooter Guy
43. Rambling With Bellur, 44. Travellin' Mama, 45. Victorya
46. Cuckoo, 47. Praveen Who Writes, 48. Coffee Conversation
49. Merisi, Equal 50. Confused Sam, Equal 50. Nobody's Friend
In conclusion, I would just like to say I've been mentoring several bloggers for a while and it is important to know that the work of a blogger whose url has only 10 hits can be ranked alongside a blogger whose url has 10,000 hits or more. I would like other would-be writers and bloggers to benefit from the fact that I am a bestselling novelist (`Vegemite Vindaloo', published by Penguin) and career journalist with almost 30 years' experience in writing, editing, design, newspaper technology and production.
And honourable mentions go to:
Aquarius2626, David's Pics, Unforeseen Paths, Prof Bush, Copper Stiletto, Terry's Playpen, Pope Terry, Kalyan's Dreams, Near Post, Colorado Bob, Chalkhills Collective, Chess World, Lensational, Ubertramp, Allan Cook, I'm On My Weigh Down, Daub du Jour, Chele 76, Movies Sans Frontiers, Pasture Musings, Mur 38, Sandip Madan, Who Dat Dare Pokah, Sketch and Colour, Kitchen Fire, Peace With Guns, Love's Ragpicker
40 comments:
Thanks for your blog comments David. x
Holding my own, as it were. Read your comment on the template. I don't know man. This one has a nice historical feel to it, and really, I'm too illiterate to mess with HTML too much. Maybe some day.
Yee-haw!! You relly are something, David. I know how many hours you give to do this, and all for no personal gain. I think I speak for all - it's your blog that really belongs in that no.1 spot, this week and every week.. you are the glue that joins us all together.
I feel honoured to be given such a high ranking, oh but, there is such a drop to follow!!
Hi David,
Glad to see myself going up again. And it's quite an honour. Thank you.
And I echo Carol's words here. You are at no. 1 spot. No doubt about that spending so much time for others w/o personal gain.
Came by to visit, thanks for the comment and I notice quite a few of my regular reads on your list.
Must be good taste :)
Thanks David...I may be slipping, but I'm just honored to be mentioned in the post.
See ya!
Hi David! Oygsunto the bottom rung of the ladder this week. Only two ways to go, up or down! Woo!
And sideways, in the event of a disaster.
Sorry - Onto, not Oygsunto, don't know where that came from. Must be channelling. Dread to think who.
David dear,
I am humbled to be in such company and thanks for putting me in the number one spot. The only thing about vbeing number one is that you either maintain it (which is not easy) or you fall back! I would not mind that either seeing that most of the friends of this list deserve this honor as well.
You work so hard, Carol is right, you should be number one!
Your number one FAN,
me
David,
I can't thank you enough for your encouragement, either by mention in your list or by the inspirations that come from your postings every day such as the blog and partner relation or even faces in the clouds. Thank you so!
Thank you, David! It's good to be back writing, and reading other blogs.
speaking of other blogs, I thought you would appreciate this post from Exit Row Seat
Hi David,
Looks Like I just moved up. Thanks for your efforts as the other bloggers have rightly pointed out. THis is such a wonderful thing to do :-)
Hi Papoosue,
Welcome. I'm aways here for you - and for everyone else.
Hope your kids are enjoying the holidays and that the weather has improved.
Keep smiling
David
Hi FHB,
Illiterate? You? Mate, that is the biggest understatement in history!
See my reply to your comment on the blog review. No html involved at all.
Take care and keep us posted. It's a pleasure to read you.
Keep smiling
David
Hi Carol,
Thank you, in all humility. It;s an honour to judge such wonderful blogs every week.
Simple as that.
Keep smiling
David
Hi Cuckoo,
Thank you for those wonderful sentiments.
The honour is mine, for being able to judge so much talent from around the globe.
As for not bothering about personal gain - that's the way my brothers and I were raised.
Keep smiling
David
G'day Hammer,
Nice of you to drop by and leave a comment. Yes, I thought you'd see a few familiar faces here - lots of people who are familiar with your work.
Take care and I hope to see you back here.
Keep smiling
David
Hi Mushy,
It's always a tough week when a good blogger slips one spot.
Hope your shoulder is better.
I'm honoured just to judge work of this quality each week.
Keep smiling
David
Hi Chertmeister,
You sure had me fooled there for a minute!
Sounds like you might be channelling some ancient linguist.
Beowulf, perhaps!
Keep smiling
David
Hi Cecilia,
Congratulations on being there for the second week running.
It's such a great list of blogs, though, that it's such fun to judge it each week!
Thank you for the kind words and for being my fan!
As you know, we're all fans of your work.
Keep smiling
David
Hi Lin,
Lovely to hear from you and I thank you for those wonderful comments.
It's great being involved in such a sharing community of writers and thinkers.
Maybe we were all meant to find each other's work.
Keep smiling
David
Hi Stacy,
It's great to have you back again. Hope you had a good time - it was funny reading about all the laundry you had to do when you returned!
Thanks so much for that link. Will definitely check it out.
Keep smiling
David
Hi Praveen,
Nice to hear from you. And it's great to see you moving up, too.
Thank you for your warm words. I do enjoy judging the blogs each week and if it helps people in some small way, then that is my greatest reward.
Keep smiling
David
I need to go on a trip more often, what a wonderful surprise to come back to! I honestly do not know how one receives this honour, but I do feel very honoured, especially considering the fact that I stumbled into this blogging adventure by the simple desire to keep my overseas friends abreast of my Viennese adventures. Thank you very very much for including me!
I hardly dare ask, but now you have tweaked my curiosity, and I can't resist: Seeing that there theoretically is the possibility to climb another ladder rung or two, how in the world can I improve my rating?
With best wishes for a great Sunday,
Merisi
Hi Merisi,
I'm so glad it was a nice surprise! The blogs are judged on several factors - good luck and I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Keep smiling
David
am still there??
I thought, i9 wud have dropped out, wot wid a being literally inactive.
thanks!! :)
cheerio
sam
Hey David,
Couldn't agree more with FatHB, you are the one who definitely deserves to be on top. I applaud you man. You have been a really big help to many of us. The time you spent looking at our progress and mentoring us, does not go unseen.
Thank you, David.
ipodwheels
david,
Yey! Feels really great to see RwB among such stellar blogs!
Thanks a million!
As my fellow blogers have said, you are truly doing a great job.
And I loved this in your above comment:
As for not bothering about personal gain - that's the way my brothers and I were raised.
Truly splendid.
Hi Sam,
You're still there, but the pressure's on!
Keep smiling
David
Hi Chris,
Very kind words, and I thank you for your generous acknowledgement.
I'll always be there to help. Just wish I could visit everyone's blog every single day, but that will haveto wait until I've finished this novel.
Keep smiling
David
Hi RK,
Always a pleasure to hear from you. Thanks you for your very kind words.
The bottom line is that I do enjoy helping ....
Keep smiling
David
Slowly moving up, my next mission is to infiltrate the top fifty.... then the world...
Thanks David - another busy week and not sure what I did to climb another position *shrug* - I posted another trivia post as requested - thanks!
Hi Pope Terry,
I can see this happening in the near future!
Keep smiling
David
Hi Steph,
Things like that happen when you least expect 'em!
Keep smiling
David
Woo-hoo! Up by one. But I notice you're not a fan of the template FHB and I share a fondness for. Huhmmm - it is a learning process for sure.
Thanks for the encouragement to keep going and the wonderful gathering of blogs to inspire. I didn't think I'd last a month when I started.
Cheers,
Vic
Hi Victorya,
Psssst - I'll let you into a little secret. I am a BIG fan of your template, which is the same one that FHB uses.
You know why? Because it's the template I first started using. Then I realised the ``look'' was dated, with all these new templates around.
That's why I updated my template!
Cheers
David
Hey, thank you :)
I just wanted to say that I saw "A Chess world" and it is GREAT! lots of up-dated news and wonderful photos, links you name it has it. If your into chess like me it is your one and only pit stop. Thank you for posting it here as I would not have seen it.
Regards,
Paula
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