Saturday, March 01, 2008
Irish Blog Awards Live!
The Irish Blog Awards should be kicking off in a few moments (8.15 is the latest estimate). Sadly I won’t be there this year, though I hoped I would be. If you want to follow it life, La Nua Podcaster Conn is streaming it live at Edgecast, so you don’t miss a thing (service permitting). Looks like a full house…
Mick Fealty @ 07:56 PM
- Best pop culture blog in Ireland for 2008: Rick O’Shea!
- Best blog from a Journalist: Shane Hegarty for Present Tense (no brainer...)
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 08:32 PMIrish election got best political blog, hard luck Mick. I thought Slugger deserved it myself.
Congratulations to Irish Election though
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 08:43 PM- Best Group Blog: beaut.ie
- Best moment on irishelections: twittering the fall of michael o’dowell
- Best Political Blog: Irish Election
- Arts and Culture : the Sigla blog
- Best Arts and Culture Blog: Sinead Gleeson
- Best Irish Language goes to Conn (third time, I think)…
- Best Technology Blog: Robin Blandford byte surgery
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 08:54 PMThey played an absolute blinder in May Chris…
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 09:08 PM- Best news and current affairs blog: (a draw) joint winners The Limerick Blogger and Maman Poulet
- Best Sport and Recreation Blog: Arse Blog
- Best Designed blog: Sabrina Dent
- Best Specialist blog: The Voyage
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 09:10 PMBest Newcomer: http://johnbraine.com/
Best Music Blog: nialler9
Best Business: Ciaran Murphy Ice Cream
Not coming in order…
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 09:14 PMSpecial award to Simon McGarr…
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 09:15 PMThat seems to have been for paperound and votetube… Feed is very poor… picking up feeds from twitter…
Jett Loe (honorary Nordie) gets a special award too..
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 09:27 PMBest Blog Post: Fat Mammy Cat
Best Photo Blog: GingerPixel
Most humorous Post: Twenty Major
Best Personal Blog: (A Draw) Headrambles, and Grannymar
Best Blog: Twenty Major (twice in a row)
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:23 PMThat reminds me, I must get Twenty’s book. A deserving winner.
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:27 PMDamn! I say we set up our own alternative, not skewed in favour of freestaters ;)
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:27 PMIt’s a wonder they include Northern blogs at all El Mat. Although surely there’s a joke in here about SDLP partitionism :)
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:30 PMNothing for splintered sunrise by the way? If so, I think that’s a shame.
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:31 PMEl Mat,
You could be in the running next year, well get my vote, if Pól continues with his current high level contributions on ElB. To be honest I barely read until he appeared. Plus it’s nice to see a journalist unashamedly admitting their SDLP bias.
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:34 PMNow, now children… Twenty’s kept at it. And his new book (agreed about this time last year) got a memorable opening review line from the Irish Times this year:
“The Order of the Phoenix Park, By Twenty Major, Hachette Books Ireland, 304pp. €9.99 The Order of the Phoenix Park by Twenty Major is the worst book I have ever finished.”
And it finishes:
“...either it includes you, or it doesn’t. It is, though, likely to include the twentysomething male sitting across from you on the bus home, who will be chuckling over Twenty’s violent nihilism, toilet truths and use of the word “c**t”. He and his mates are going to make this a bestseller.”
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:36 PMGari,
Good call. Splintered would be my best newcomer - who’d have thunk the workings of the SWP could become as good as a daily soap. I’d also have had WellDoneFillet in my winners list.
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:37 PMTruth is guys, you have to engage the audience and it seems that Northern Irish politics loses its ‘universal appeal’ somewhere about Dundalk.
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:39 PM“He and his mates are going to make this a bestseller.”
And, if so, no more or less deservedly than others.
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:42 PMAlso an ‘gone but not forgotten’ award should be created for Belfast Peeler the first blog shut down by the RUC (and all but the last entry deleted). Something that got pretty limited coverage.
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:42 PMMark,
He has certainly made a silk purse out of a sow’s ear with that material. I think though that his choice of photos help really lift it.
Mick,
You’re absolutely right. And that Irish Times review is thoroughly spot on. Thanks for sharing it. Made me laugh.
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:43 PMPete,
That was nasty. If highly entertaining.
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:44 PMSo’s long as you’re not bitter, Pete. That’s the main thing. :o)
Truth is guys, you have to engage the audience and it seems that Northern Irish politics loses its ‘universal appeal’ somewhere about Dundalk.
Posted by Mick Fealty on Mar 01, 2008 @ 10:39 PMMick, if it’s any consolation. I was told last year that many of the winners have juicy avatars whirring around Second Life Dublin schmoozing up votes for each other. And you’ve got....you’ve got us, Mick. So it was “Sex and the City” versus “Fecks in the City,” and guess who won? Better luck next year!
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 01:07 AMNice one… ;-) I think we’ll need a bit more than luck susan… But hey, we’ve got a year… Maybe we just need to get out more… ;-)
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 01:23 AMJust out of interest how many unashamedly Norn Irish blogs have won awards, apart from this one?
None this year. Can’t remember any from the first two years either(apart from this one the first year), though the drink might have something to do with that.
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 01:45 AMJett is Belfast based, but I guess his topics are more about being in Ireland than most. That said I’ve no argument with how the politics category went this time.
Irish Election have been pretty quiet since last May/June, which is the most obvious reason I put Slugger ahead of them in my list of top 20 Irish pol blogs. But last May was a stunning effort and they thoroughly deserved the award.
If we want to win awards in Dublin, we probably need to be saying something more than we currently do to Dublin audiences. To that extent partition is still pretty thick, even in the virtual world.
Posted by on Mar 02, 2008 @ 02:02 AM
