Thanks, Matt. I think I’m done here.

Nice one, looks like quite some work, but how can you forget absolutely Bangkok.com? It’s just a few months old, but several hundred hits a day … tks anyway.

I wasn’t able to figure out the logic of this either. Must be some social networking thing. There are blogs on this list with dead links and people who haven’t posted for ages. I’ve been around for almost two years and was ignored.

Good luck Matt. I won’t be back… your links removed.

Chani you’re overreacting and, may I say, acting silly. I spent hours making this list and if I overlooked your blog then you have to believe me that it wasn’t on purpose. As I said, if I missed a blog, it’s pretty easy to add your own URL.

One more Matt: What does it take to jump over the below 20 threshold? Is the rating all strictly based on the two mentioned algorithms and therefore done automatically?

Hi Matt,

Thanks for including our little corner, Lifewonders, in your Thai blogs list!

Since we don’t care about popularity and such, I’m surprised we even made it. There must be fewer Thai-related blogs out there than I thought!

Your list includes some interesting blogs, and I was delighted to discover more quality sites about Thailand. Thanks!

Oh, by the way, Matt: do you accept blogs in any language? A friend of mine has a Chiang Mai blog with great pictures but the narrative is in Hungarian. If that still fits within the scope of your list, I’d like to nominate that blog.

Thanks.

Hey, thanks a lot…..was looking for a list like this for sometime :)

Yes there is, but it would mean that every single blogger would have to install the widget, which is unlikely to ever happen.

I’ll go through and review the blogs this week. If any don’t make the cut, I’ll remove them. That’s the easiest way to do it at the moment. I will use Alexa rank in the future, but not for a while as it requires a hosting upgrade to do so. If a blog sucks, then vote for it so and the rankings will correct themselves over time.

You really got to get Alexa involved - currently sites with an Alexa traffic rank of over 10 million can outpace a rank of 700,000 because of better social bookmarking … Alexa is probably quite more representative.

–>chani: poor you… don’t make us cry… your comment is kind of mean by the way… why don’t you just submit your blog yourself after all? Come on! ;-p

–>bkkdan: actually alexa is representative only in the USA, for European and Asian traffics, alexa figures are misleading. Unfortunately there isn’t a real alternative to alexa that’s free…

–>vanalli: to keep cost down and to avoid changing webhost if you know Visual Basic you could make a VBA macro in excel that grabs the alexa ranks and then just upload the results in your mysql database, you would have to run the macro just once every month, alexa does not vary that much usually,so no need.

Woohoo. Dropped 25 spots since you put this up. LOL. As long as I’m still ranked, I think I’m okay. Hahah!

I put a link on my side bar to come back to you, my dear.

One has to ask what is the point of having a Top100 Thai blogs written by Farangs ?!

If someone is interested in reading blogs about Thailand a google blog search would be as usefull.

Then, which farang blogger would like to read about the same story another blogger is blogging about?

I see only one beneficiary here, Matt, and that’s you, increasing your traffic and advert-based revenus.

Good ideas though and I would never think of blaming you for that!

Toy

I tried the ADD URL button using both IE and Firefox. I won’t say it doesn’t work, but if it does, I couldn’t figure it out. It seemed to simply re-load the top 100 list. I can see, though, that others have been added, so it’s probably just my technical (in)competence that isn’t up to snuff. Looks like a great idea for your site.

OK, I fixed the problem with the “addurl.php” file. While I know what was causing the problem, I have no idea how it happened. Very strange. Seems the index file got overwritten into the addurl file. I don’t know how such a thing happened.

As I said, Alexa will be added to the metric soon.

Alexa provides the most reliable data out there. They just the system with the toolbar/hits, they claim it’s a much more broadly based system now.

But Alexa/Amazon asks for $0.000015 per request ($0.15 for 1,000 requests). So this much more reliable data than the broad Google rank and the obscure Technorati rank does not come free.

Anyway, take the list with a grain of salt. Matt’s done a great job with that 5*-script, the Thai blogging scene is not dead at all - even though the current ranking system favors blogs with a good Technorati rank. Once Alexa is included and Google updates its ranks, the whole picture changes.

This is turning into a bit of a farce. It seems like Farang Speak 2 Much has linked the list to all his buddies under the sun who have gave him five stars and everyone else one star.

I mean some most of those sites in the top ten are excellent, yet their ratings are so low. While on crappy blogs with hardly any content on them they get a high rating!

Remove this silly voting thing (if you have idiots like Farang Speak 2 Much) and use Alexa too.

Paul: As one of the ‘buddies’ who voted 5 stars to the Farang Speaks 2 Much site, I’d like to invite you to educate yourself before slinging crap at others. The FS2M site has a large following, and the link to this (the Lost Boy) site was put up with a minimum of fanfare. Specifically it said,

Seems this dude, what is matt, has this top 100 Thailand blogs list. We are only #13. Kind of bothers me. So anyway - if any of u give a shit - vote for us. It will help pay the rent.

Within a day or so the FS2M site had 130+ votes. If all of us had given everyone else one star, then there would have been similar numbers of votes for all sites. To the contrary, most other sites had less than 20 votes.

In the blog above Matt said “What I’d also like if for people to blog about the list. Ask your readers to vote for your blog, link to the list in your sidebar, tell people about it in comments, whatever. The more traffic the list has, the more traffic the blogs will receive and the more beneficial the whole thing will be to everybody.”

So the boys at FS2M simply did what they were asked to do in their own style.

The term ‘crappy blog’ is subjective, and can be thrown around easily, but if you want to accuse FS2M of having “hardly any content” then I’d suggest that you read the blog from the first entry to the last. When you finish reading in a couple of weeks, come back and explain in detail just why it’s so crappy. You’re entitled to an opinion, but wouldn’t you rather be informed before expressing yourself?

Me? I’d never heard of the Lost Boy site before, so the site picked up traffic it wouldn’t have had before.

In my opinion it looks like a lot of good work on this.

I’d be willing to make a second top 100 for Thai-language blogs if you could compile the list for me.

Paul - u seem a little out of line here but oh well.

If anything we are trying to help support the list. All I did is let people know about it and I think probably brought a lot of newbies to Matt’s site. I never said to vote other people down.

I think matt is doing some good work and as always good work in Thailand gets put down by others. Hence I called for Matt to remove his own blog from the list so that he can manage all this better.

From what I can tell he has - good on him.

Most techheads know that alexa is not that reliable - especially outside the US so adding it might help but it will not really make a huge difference with blogs based here. Using something like Compete might be a better view of things.

Paul not sure your basis for calling us or our readers idiots but I find you pretty typical of other Farangs in Asia by working so hard to tear others down without any basis for doing so.

smitty - curator of The Farang Speaks to Much

It hasn’t been deleted, but it’s on hold. I’m going to have a vote next week to decide once and for all I think cos I’ve no idea how many people are of this opinion.

Another thing Matt. Quite some ranking figures changed meanwhile, but they’re not adjusted in your list. You have to trigger the update manually?!

Quite some useless blogs in this list, such as that Bangkok Metblogs - a dead blog. Perhaps you should do a clean-up.

Check out Thai-Stars.com!
It is based upon Matt’s “the top 100 Thailand blogs” though dedicated to showcase “The Best Websites About Thailand”. Feel free to add any Thailand related website(s) to this unlimited list.
Would be nice if we could build up a comprehensive listing because:

We share one passion: Thailand!

whatismatt.com is already listed and participating in the election of the “best websites about Thailand” -> CONTEST.

Vote for sites you like to boost their ratings!

I don’t think anything’s changed has it? PR, Alexa haven’t been updated recently.

All right I’ll do one end of the week when I’m adding new blogs. These cron job cost me $0.10 every time, so I can’t do them too often. (kidding)