481 nominated blogs – that must be nearly all of the active blogs in the country! That’s just silly. Good for hype and buzz, but devalues the Nominated in my opinion. (I don’t think I’m bitchin’, don’t mean to, just find it a bit cynical).

Oh, meant to add, congratulations, hope you win!

@darrylxxx – Thanks Darryl. I have thought about that, in some ways you are right, though have you ever wanted to see the ‘long list’ of movies in the running for the Oscars or list of albums in any number of music awards etc?

Yes, the annual “oh, let’s start blogging again” begins. I guess if it gets people motivated that can’t be a bad thing eh?

I’ll carry on as normal because well, I don’t have time to be arsing about writing interesting and researched posts and luckily ocaoimh.ie wasn’t nominated, only inphotos. That gets it’s daily dose of imagery and consumes more than it’s fair share of my spare time!

I should start blogging about being a dad. I wonder if people would read it? Unfortunately my common sense says it’d have to be anonymous for privacy reasons.

Right, I need sleep, err. Good luck in the competition :)

Of course the list is long – it’s just the initial nominations – it will be culled quite a bit as things progress. It’s the same with the Net Visionaries or the shorty awards etc.,

Of course they should have only been able to pick from a short list for nominations…

Honestly….

“the blog post rates increase dramatically, lots of link love, memes, posts with some thought, topical entries, and maybe even a few redesigns”

new things to be self-conscious about :D

@mj – Honestly?

Kinda feel bad about posting on me blog now….

Oh now i get your Tweet earlier….

You dawg!