In a world where a blogger’s social status is determined by the number of visitors, readers, and blog earnings, I am not so surprised to see that NXE’s Fifty Most Influential Bloggers had quickly become the talk of many blog posts throughout the whole blogosphere.

The said blog post features the top 50 bloggers along with descriptions on why and how they have influenced the blogosphere. I browsed through the whole list and found the list to be well thought out and researched (Though I dare say that I have a slight problem with the other spots, but it’s fine).

Some of my frequent reads have managed to get themselves into the list like Brian Clark of CopyBlogger, Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney, and Darren Rowse from Problogger.net. And thanks to the list, I have also found some great reads like Eli from BlueHatSEO, Guy Kawasaki of How to Change the World and Sven Lennartz with Vitaly Friedman from Smashing Magazine.

But after sifting through the whole list from Top 50 to the first spot, I can’t help but ask myself, “Where are the Pinoy Bloggers?”

Although, we already have the very famous Michelle Malkin (american born filipina), on the top 16th spot of the list. I wonder where are the other Pinoy bloggers? Why aren’t pinoy blogger celebrities Abe Olandres of Yugatech or Jayvee Fernandez of A Bugged Life on the list?

One of the main reasons why I made PinoyBlogero is because I saw great potential in the Pinoy blogosphere. I saw how Pinoys bloggers have applied their innate competitive nature on their blogs to compete against other blogs to show what Filipinos are made of.

Some of those lucky ones who have managed to cross the borders and gain worldwide recognition are Pinoy bloggers like the Brown Baron from BrownThoughts, Derek Punsalan of 5ThirtyOne, Bryan Veloso of Avalonstar, Carl Ocab of CarlOcab, and many more. However, it still seems that their influence are not enough to grace the top 50 list.

It seems that Pinoy bloggers still have a long way to go. We have great potential and ideas but we still need more effort to gain worldwide fame and recognition. Such a feat requires lots of guts, money, time, and effort for one to be considered influential in the whole blogosphere.

It’s a difficult task, but nobody said it was impossible. If ever a Pinoy blogger manages to get himself on top of that list, rest assured that I will be the first one who will be posting about it.

Hey, we could always list down the Top 50 Influential Pinoy Bloggers, right? Who want’s to do it?

Happy blogging!

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