If you look again at my remarks, it’s just a personal feeling. In principle I support anyone posting anything, and good on them for doing so well. It’s just personal distaste born of vanity and previous exposure to happy clappy churches and Amwayesque shemes.

I agree it gets insular sometimes, but that’s the nature of the internet; of life in general really. Incidentally I thought your site was pretty good.

Should you have been on this list? absolutely, but lets give Meg a break here, we’ve lacked this sort of thing in the Australian blogosphere in the past, there’s no starting point, she’s giving it a fair shot, and it can always be approved.

As for there being a “cream” of the Australian blogosphere, all we have so far is grouping of insular cliques, which is half the reason collectively we haven’t gotten together and made a bigger impact in our country than many others have overseas. You probably don’t know me from a bar of soap, and yet I know half (roughly) of the top twenty, some very well. My only ask is that you consider the broader picture, that (OK, this is wanky) Together Everyone Achieves More. Lets look to the positives, lets get these lists sorted, and lets get out there promoting Australian blogs and bloggers, no matter the flavour.

I also found Club Troppo on Craig Harper’s site and yes you are right. It is ranked at #87.

How could an iconic blog like Club Troppo be left off any top 100 Australian Blog List.

In case you are interested Susan I found the article on Darren’s site describing how the lists came to be.

Well Done Club Troppo. You are the first blog I read every day.

My understanding, according to Darren Rowse (Problogger), is that Meg’s list was born out of Craig’s list.

Congratulations Jacques!

What a shock. My conclusions are about the same as yours.

With a few exceptions the Top Blogs resembled blogs only by use of the software and name. The majority had little or no comments, no exchange or clash of ideas and nothing in the way of analysis or “writing”.

Indeed it seemed I had fallen into an endless link fest between the “top blogs” or an online Amway MLM scam.

The majority of these “blogs” had content so thin as to be transparent and almost all were selling some undefined product. [mainly how to make money online as far as I can see]

Anything that might possibly be called content was a collection of MLM boostering clich

I’m going to get my meds right now and damn the notes on the back.