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Which isn't bad for a bunch of Limeys running a company with a suspiciously large quota of Antipodeans. You can read the post - from fashion blog FashionIQ - here. Seriously though, we didn't set out to target US readers. Catwalk Queen, Shoewawa and The Bag Lady are aimed mainly at Brits and it will always be that way. So it is a real compliment that we are so well regarded on the other side of the pond. Any takers for Shiny Fashion USA? Now that would be a challenge.

Here at Shiny Media we are delighted to announce that in association with River Island we have launched Graduate Fashion Week Live - the official blog for this year's GFW. Graduate Fashion Week began in 1991 and is the premiere event for showcasing the very best in fashion talent that the UK has to offer. It has helped to launch the careers of such famous designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney. The event is being held at Battersea Park from June 3rd - June 7th and the best bit is that it's completely open to the public! That's right, anyone can attend without having to resort to the line "but don't you know who I am?"

Twitter - passing fad or the future for messaging on the web and phones? Well we don't know either. We do know though that Twitter is fantastically addictive, so we have launched Twitterati, a baby blog devoted to Twittering. Stu Dredge and his team will be keeping you up to speed with the many new and varied applications for Twitter, picking up on some of its odd uses and interviewing the people who are using the service to do creative things. Twitter users can also keep tabs on the blog via its Twitter feed - twitter.com/twitterati

Over the past few years we have dipped our toe in the gaming blogosphere with Games Digest and Wii Wii. Emboldened by success with those titles, especially the Wii blog, we are set to jump right in with a whole slew of games titles. We actually launched our PS3 blog pspsps.tv (geddit?) a few weeks back and it has been going really well hitting figures way beyond our expectations. It has now been joined by an Xbox blog Xboxer.tv and there will be at least three or four more Shiny games blogs before the month is out. We also have a Shiny Games YouTube channel with Shiny’s very own Mark Kermode, Simon Munk, loving or dissing the new releases.

A couple of years back the British blogosphere basically revolved around a couple of technology journalists ranting about source codes and operating systems. Glad to say that it is now a much more diverse place. For evidence check out the finalists of the Best of British Blog awards being run by Ask.co.uk (cheers for the ads guys) in collaboration with Metro (it is a regional newspaper, apparently). Shiny has done reasonably well scoring three nominations for surprise, surprise, our three biggest blogs; TechDigest, Shiny Shiny and Catwalk Queen. There are a few of our mates in there too, notably Shiny affiliated site Hecklerspray, the wonderful footy site Arseblog, ace cricket blog Corridor and top fashionista StyleBubble.