Irish Blog Awards Noms ’09 – Let the Bitching Commence

January 20th, 2009

Watch as the blog post rates increase dramatically, lots of link love, memes, posts with some thought, topical entries, and maybe even a few redesigns over the next 4 weeks, as these are possibly the most important days in the life of an Irish Blogger, with the Blog Awards just around the corner and the huge list of nominations having been released this afternoon.

Bearing in mind that these are only the blogs which were nominated by the general public not necessarily those which meet the criteria for each category, that will be decided by the 79 judges! I mean seriously, 481 individual blogs! That’s a lot to get through; which is what I will be doing over the next month. I may have to split my Google Reader folder of Irish Blogs in two.

I am not going to list all the nominated blogs from Northern Ireland, but simply to say congrats to you all – no segregation, but the number is increasing each year which is great.

LET THE BATTLE COMMENCE!

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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).

Posted by darrylxxx on 20 Jan 2009 at 9:34 pm

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

Posted by darrylxxx on 20 Jan 2009 at 9:34 pm

@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?

Posted by phil on 20 Jan 2009 at 9:43 pm

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 :)

Posted by Donncha O Caoimh on 20 Jan 2009 at 11:02 pm

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.,

Posted by Michele on 20 Jan 2009 at 11:46 pm

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

Honestly….

Posted by mj on 20 Jan 2009 at 11:47 pm

“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

Posted by B' on 21 Jan 2009 at 12:25 am

@mj – Honestly?

Posted by phil on 21 Jan 2009 at 12:31 am

Kinda feel bad about posting on me blog now….

Oh now i get your Tweet earlier….

You dawg!

Posted by Ben on 21 Jan 2009 at 1:34 am

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