Battle of bloggers regarding the T-List...

Episode 1 - In March 2007, Mathieu from Radaron started the T-List which lists blogs related to Travel / Tourism. 32 comments have been posted on Mathieu's post (last one is from 20th June). The list was highly acclaimed to be a good initiative. Only one blogger didn't like the idea.

Episode 2 - July 15th 2007, Jens from Tourism Internet Marketing sets up  a community around the T-list on Facebook. He even created an animated banner to announce the news!
 

Episode 3 - July 17th 2007, Darren from Travel Rants has his rants about the death of the T-list and doesn't like the idea of creating this community on Facebook (the "bright spark" is Jens by the way)

Episode 4 - Now, Guillaume from well... you know where is about to publish his July Unofficial Technorati Travel / Hospitality Blogs ranking - but he's too scared of negative comments that could create. Is it useful? Who cares? The idea is to see how Travel / Hotels related blogs are getting popular (or not for some cases) among the Internet audience. It's also interesting to see that corporate blogs don't get as much popularity as "amateur" blogs (the exception being Bill Marriott "On The Move" blog).

Episode 5 - Who goes, you chose, you decide in the T-List Big Brother house...

By the way, the T-List is not very well placed on Google. I can't see it mentioned on the first page of results. The first site is selling customised T-shirts. Should we invest in some PayPerClick campaign? Who wants to participate in the special fund?

Technorati Tags: the T-list, T-list

Comments

[Syl]

It would be great if something creative and interesting comes out of the T-List.

A collaborative work, something shared and created by this community, not only a new way to boost our technorati ranking or PR.. What do you think?

[Darren Cronian]

Guillaume, I've been waiting for you to do another Technorati unofficial chart!!!

If only you'd done it at the end of June, I was at 8,500 ranking, for 48 hours, then jumped back to 29,000 - I don't quite get this Technorati ranking but its all good fun!!

[Darren Cronian]

Oh, and I couldn't find any mention of the t-list on 1st page here, but I'm sure it'll shoot to the 1st page of Google soonish :D

I have a rant about Google Adwords aswell but I'll save that for another day! ;)

[Darren Cronian]

Only me AGAIN.

Guillaume, you might want to sort this splogger out
http://hotelandtravel.decasitodo.com.ar/battle-of-bloggers-regarding-the-t-list.htm

Could cause problems in Google with duplicate content - plus there earning an income off your blog content.

[Guillaume]

Hi Darren,

How long would the T-List make #1 on Google? 1 onth / 6 month / never...:-)

Thanks for the tip about the splogger. I am going to act on this.

Jens,

Where you are you?

Guillaume

[Karin]

O come on, cher Guillaume, there is definetely no battle whatsoever. And who cares, if the T-list is top ranked or not? Only we know the expression anyway. Let's keep this fun, rewarding, inspiring and not take it too seriously.
Karin

[Jens Thraenhart]

Thanks Karin - it's all good.

Guillaume, I left a comment at Darren's blog as well as on Facebook. See, if we just used one community to share our thought, it would be much easier. :)

I was quite amused when I saw Darren's, and I actually agree with Darren that the T-List in itself gets kind of boring, but using it as a tool is pretty cool.

To be honest, when Mathieu created the T-List back in March of this year, and when I saw it growing (even though the constant updates got a bit annoying), I discovered quite a few new great travel-related blogs, which I probably otherwise I would have never found. So I think it was a great idea!

The idea to put the T-List on Facebook (could have been any other community site as well), was just to move from a static list (let’s call it Web 1.0) to connecting with all these name-less blogs and bloggers (let’s call it Web 2.0) - like putting faces and names to blogs.

I think, most of us share a common passion and are similar in a way that we articulate our thoughts and ideas on our blogs. That’s great! But getting all together at one virtual place to connect just seemed a logical next step. And I know that Karin is getting together with fellow bloggers in Austria - while we are getting together here in Vancouver occasionally.

As I said, I agree that it is not about the T-List itself, but more about how we can leverage it as a tool to learn and connect. Just my thoughts.

[Darren Cronian]

Karin, we are all taking it as fun, even Matthieu who challenged me to a fight in email hehe [Im jokin!!]

Anyway, t-list is top of the rankings in Google, just look! ;)