Is there a Pinoy A-list? It seems that "Blogs to Riches" by Clive Thompson (New York, 20 February 2006) equates being on the A-list with having thousands of hits every day AND making lots of money. Walt at Random and librarian.net don't quite think the same way. Maybe because they're librarians (like me), but especially because neither has ads on their blogs (unlike me).
But going back to the question, the following may be used to determine the Pinoy A-listers:
But going back to the question, the following may be used to determine the Pinoy A-listers:
- Pinoy Top Blogs - only those who put the button on their blogs get their hits counted
- Blogs Tagged Philippines on Technorati - links are the basis for ranking, but inclusion depends on the tag "Philippines"
- Technorati’s Philippine Top 100 Blogs - links again, of course, but this time dependent on the administrator's awareness of a blogger's Pinoy-ness
Could it be that the Technorati blogs that don't have the Pinoy Top Blogs button have fewer hits? Rickey.org, Bryanboy and About Web Logs are by Filipinos, but hardly ever have any posts on the Philippines. Incidentally, Asiapundit may have "Philippines" as a tag, but the owner doesn't seem to be Filipino; he just happens to write about our country occasionally. And then there's Ambot Ah!, who seems to be too modest to include his own blog in Pinoy Top Blogs because he happens to have been the one who set it up.
I suppose there are a few among the blogs mentioned above that get the hits AND make money, but the question that needs to be resolved is the one asked by Dave Starr on Random Takes: "Can only Filipinos produce ‘Philippine Blogs’? What about joint Phil-Am efforts were both parties contribute regularly? What about non-Filipinos who write exclusively about the Philippines?" In short, what makes a blog "Pinoy"?
Category: Blogging
