Comments on: Aussie bloggers roundup

By: mark

mark — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:32:42 +0000

Considering they share the most spoken language in the world I guess Australian article submitters are well behind some other non-english-speaking nations (I speak for my own article directory)yet, there might be legitimate reasons for this.
We could argue that someone’s idea of happiness isn’t spending 14 hours per day in front of a computer screen.
So perhaps they have better things to do.
Given a choice I’d sometimes rather be in the middle of the ocean or somewhere were you need an helicopter to go to so I wouldn’t worry too much about the aussies, perhaps they are too busy swimming to mess with computers!

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:55:40 +0000

Not sure I get your “disagreement” Paul. In fact I get a lot of Australian visitors. Probably a higher proportion than I did when this post was written over 2 years ago.

By: Paul Brown

Paul Brown — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:48:40 +0000

It was a good move to go global. But I would disagree with you on Aussie visitors.
My Article directory is based in the US (but I live in Spain) and After the US my visitors (in order of quantity) are Canada, Argentina (God knows why), Australia, Spain, UK. I have visitors from other countries as well, but Aussie visitors outweight all of Europe combined.
I think you are all technologically tuned in, but just a bit shy at revealing yourselves!
Good luck mate….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:48:40 +0000

Martin

you know what, I get more Aussie vistors now as well! Go figure

It’s an old story, mate – you get more attention in this country when you get noticed elsewhere.

Well done, anyway!

Des

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:26:03 +0000

Des,

The pull-out quote you have is harsh but sadly true. We’ve always lagged 1-2 years behind the rest of the world in all things from tech to fashion, yet we have quite a few on the cutting-edge of new technology (including blogging and podcasting).

In a way it’s sad, because aren’t we Australians supposed to by right up there as a industrialised nation – rich, advanced and users of high tech?

Take my example: I started HomeOfficeVoice as a purely Australian thing for Australian home business owners (there are around 1 milion of us!) and I couldn’t get anywhere (not for lack of trying) – the Aussie mainstream media just does not write up much about blogging. It was hard to get any exposure in Australia and for some reason (cultural cringe maybe / inferiroty complex) people here prefer the advice and publications from overseas over Australian-flavoured – like almost we are not up to it.

So bang, one day I thought I’m going global (there are 13.2m home business owners in America alone!) and it’s been great ever since – publicity everywhere and welcomed as well.

And you know what, I get more Aussie vistors now as well! Go figure