Comments on: Are these really the top blogs?

By: Montreal Canadiens

Montreal Canadiens — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:59:36 +0000

Who the hell is the HUE Agency?

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Sun, 27 May 2007 12:00:14 +0000

I think Michel Leblanc has hit the nail on the head. We'll all be visible to different degrees in different places. Lists are just another form of social media. I'm on the list but not for my most Montreal-based blog, The Other Bloke's Blog. My most visible blog doesn't get on to any of these lists but appears well in Internet Marketing circles.

Perhaps we should all be going more for tagging and adding a Montreal tag, wherever we can. However I fear that tagging is a here-today/gone-tomorrow phenomenon like Twitter and Digg. After all the other form of tagging in our downtown streets is often viewed as pollution.

By: Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel — Sat, 26 May 2007 10:54:22 +0000

While I'm on this InfoPresse list (no clue how, but hey, it's all love). There are more than a handful of others who should be up there.

- Harry Wakefield - Moco Loco.
- Ben Yoskovitz - Instigator Blog.
- Galacticast - Podcast, but you get what I'm saying.
- Andy Nulman - Pow! Right Between The Eyes (already listed, but I'm a huge fan).
- Jean Julien - iPub.
- Marc Snyder.
- Creative Generalist...

... and yes, there are tons more (in both French and English).

By: Neath

Neath — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:13:46 +0000

What a lineup! Really appreciate getting on your list. Everyday I wake up and think, "Don't put another picture of that ^&**^$^ interchange up today!"(heh) Then somebody says something nice and, what the heck....

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:13:32 +0000

Sorry. There's a court order preventing me from praising the blog or anything else relating to Z*ke's G*llery. I'm not even allowed to utter the name in public.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:06:31 +0000

Howdy!

Yuck. Chopped Liver again.

By: Michel leblanc

Michel leblanc — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:23:05 +0000

Dear Steve

There are numerous problems with top bloglists. first of all how do you compare a sex blog, a mom's blog and a professional blog? All of those blogs attracts quite different readership in various markets. Furthermore, how do we compare French and English blogs? I have a huge readership in France but I am quite unknown in Toronto. I presume that for you it is quite the opposite. So to put all those blogs on the same level and commpare them on a so called "influence scale" it becomes ludicrous. Furthermore, where do the influence opf those bloggers take place? In Quebec, Kuala Lumpur, Switzerland? Where are those Web hyperlinks and blogroll links are coming from? Those are questions that are still in the air...

That being said thanks for the mention and personnaly I prefer the wikio.fr topblog list that puts me the 28th most influencial Francophone blog in the world rather than the InfoPresse that puts me on the 16th most influencial blog in Quebec but that's just my ego talking....

By: Martine

Martine — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:27:03 +0000

There has been many Canadian lists and contests of "top bloggers" that included blogs almost exclusively written in English. I guess it's always the same story: people don't seem to believe in any kind of "influence" outside of their regular reading circle. In an ideal world, a list of "top blogs" based in Canada should be bilingual. But who would believe in the results? (Or maybe I should say that in an ideal world, nobody would care about a "top blogs" list.)

By: Andy Nulman

Andy Nulman — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:35:49 +0000

Steve--

For Christ's sake, your list is way more influential anyway. Much happier to be on The Fagstein 14 (well, 15 if you include yourself, andthe alliteration still works) than on the Hue are they anyway's.

--Andy

By: Andrea Doyon

Andrea Doyon — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:47:20 +0000

Hi Fagstein,

Indeed, we need to improve our crawling for the English blog.

By the way, we didnâ€™t mean to insult anyone, au contraire. But due to the fact it was hard to identify Quebec based â€œEnglish bloggerâ€, we have limited this part of the crawling and hope to improve it during the next months.

We will post more about our methodology on our blog in the next weeks.

As for â€œnot knowing our agencyâ€, we are a MontrÃ©al based interactive agency of 30 employee. I invite you to call me on my cell (514 692 5768) and I will be happy to show you around. I`ll pay the lunch. =)

Thank you for your comments!

By: Mario tout de go

Mario tout de go — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:36:17 +0000

Parmi les plus influents du QuÃ©bec sur Internet? Je ne crois pas......

Le tabeau des Â«trente influenceurs de la blogosphÃ¨reÂ» ne me dit rien qui vaille....

By: Philippe Martin

Philippe Martin — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:08:44 +0000

Hi Steve
You are right, a lot of anglos blogs are missing. The author apologize in a Michel Leblanc's comment:
http://www.michelleblanc.com/2007/05/22/influenceurs-bloguosphere-quebecoise/#comments

By: ipub

ipub — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:09:16 +0000

merci pour la mention !

By: Zelaurent

Zelaurent — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:32:18 +0000

Personnellement, j'aurais mis Christelle en number one du classement. Elle reprÃ©sente une belle synthÃ¨se de ce pays : une francophone qui blogue en anglais ;)

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 23 May 2007 02:51:13 +0000

Thank you, Steve. I'm honored that you think I should be on the list. I'm kinda surprised that blork is not on the list, though it is nice that martine made it.

By: heri

heri — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:56:34 +0000

I've never heard of Hue agency either. And I also think their ranking is not very serious.

By the way, I liked your blog list at the end.

Great writing style too.
cheers
Heri

By: Christelle

Christelle — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:32:19 +0000

Ohh my blog too?! :D I feel honoured! ;) :)

It's a neat list to discover blogs.. A few of them I didn't know. :)