Voting in the 2007 edition of the Irish Blog Awards (a Mulley initiative) closes this Friday. They’ve fixed the voting form, so you can now vote for all the categories at once.
So, who should you vote for?
Best Blog – hard one really. I’d almost vote for Adam on this one, as he’d hate being labelled a blogger.
Best Blog Post – There have been some good ones, but I think Dave‘s explanation of how to get listed in DMOZ would get my vote. That’s not fair on Red Cardinal’s amazing work on the Golden Spiders, however, so you could vote for that instead.
Best Arts and Culture Blog – no idea. Any suggestions?
Best Political Blog again I’m not that sure.
Best Group Blog Tcal won last year, so who does that leave?
Best Personal Blog I think Damien should get that one.
Best Use of the Irish Language in a Blog Conn is the only one that springs to mind…
Most Humorous Post Both Head Rambles and Twenty Major have made me laugh over the last few months, so it’s hard to pick one post in particular. Maybe checking their archives would help you decide ….
Best Podcaster Best Podcast There are three strong contenders here. Brian Greene, Bernie Goldbach and Conn – all three are excellent podcasters in their own right, but they’ve all done a lot to promote podcasting and teach others and encourage people in general in a completely selfless manner.
Best Technology Blog/Blogger Maybe Adrian Weckler? I particularly liked his review of the iPhone 🙂 Unlike the sheep he wasn’t afraid to speak out about the potential flaws.
Best Designed Blog There are some really nice ones out there! Alan‘s personal blog is a nice clean design, while I’ve always liked Ken‘s various layouts.
Best Sport & Recreation Blog no idea
Best News/Current Affairs Blog not sure…
Best Photo Blog Donncha’s Photo Blog
Best Specialist Blog I’m not too sure what qualifies … Maybe Jmcc‘s?
Best Newcomer Head Rambles
Best Business Blog There are a couple that I like including Infacta’s Messaging Times
Best Music Blog No idea really… Kilkenny Music? I tend to listen to music rather than read about it 🙂
Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere Mulley? Donncha for his work on both WordPress and WP MU? Who else has done stuff this year? Both Roger and John won last year for their contributions (or maybe I’m confusing awards ….. )
Anyone who has any ideas for the gaps in my voting card please make sane suggestions 🙂
Irish Blog Awards – Who Should I Vote for???
“Best Sport & Recreation Blog no idea”
Come on!!! Vote Ireland’s premier:
http://blog.teamgearedup.com/
😉
My blog can’t enter as I own and run the Awards. Auto-excluded. Thanks for the consideration though. 🙂
Damien
I don’t think that’s particularly fair on you!!
So does this mean that I’ll have to get everyone to vote for you for the Net Visionaries this year? 🙂
Michele
I declined the Net Visionary nomination last year 🙂
Gah!
We can have the Mulleys.
Best use of a Mulley in a blog post.
Best supporting Mulley
etc
and Damien (like myself) stood aside from nominations and votes for the DMAs as we are judging, proper and right. is this post not misleading, voting does not close friday, nominations do. btw i think bernie should win! make it happen.
Twenty Major’s mate from awards 2006 said Twenty Major would attend 2007! told Tom, Michele and Me so its true – will it happen?
http://www.netvisionary.ie/6awards15.html
Note to self – provide LOADS of music on the KKM blog in the future and update that thing 50 times a day…. 🙂
http://www.beaut.ie for the best group blog? Gorgeous design, lots of quality posts per day and making a good impressing IRL as well, with press coverage etc…
“Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere” – Kick.ie?
Thanks for the wee mention BTW. I’m humbled. And that doesn’t happen often.
And even though I also nominated him last year, ye can’t vote for Conn in best use of Irish as he is sponsoring the award.
There’s a rake of Irish Language blogs out there though – some of which are listed on Gaelport.com at:
http://www.gaelport.com/index.php?page=directory&level=sub&id=50&start=24
A starting point…
Ádh mór,
R
Twenty Major’s mate from awards 2006 said Twenty Major would attend 2007! told Tom, Michele and Me so its true – will it happen?
Nothing is impossible although I can neither confirm nor deny anything at this moment in time.
Please refer all further queries to my PR people. And by people I mean person. And by PR people I mean me.
There’s always someone who has been there before you Damien. 🙂
I declined the Netvisionary Award nomination for technology journalist of the year a few years ago because it was, hypocritically sponsored by a PR firm. Merely recylcing press releases is not real journalism and I didn’t want an award for being a PR company shill.
Redcardinal’s work on the Goldenspiders definitely deserves an award, perhaps the best Technology Blog award. Michele should get the best personal blog one. 🙂