Irish Blog Awards, 2009

Anouilh

Photo Bloggers might like to be nominated for the
Irish Blog Awards.

http://awards.ie/blogawards/nominations/

We have until 14 January, 2009 to decide who will be
Ireland's Top Bloggers.

Anouilh

A reminder that tomorrow is the deadline for nominations.

Photographedublin.blogspot was short-listed in 2007, which was very encouraging.

Are there many winners from past Awards here?

Culann

My blog is in the nominations list for the first time, so....good luck me, but I won't be holding my breath.

Anouilh

Culann wrote: »

My blog is in the nominations list for the first time, so....good luck me, but I won't be holding my breath.

Many congratulations!

And how do you know this?
Is there a preview of nominations out already?

I made a thread at Techfocus that has some links from topical blogs and some memories of Award Ceremonies past.

http://lounge.techfocus.net/showthread.php?p=360558#post360558

Calina

you are allowed to nominate yourself although I personally never do.

Quite a few regular posters here were nominated last year.

GristlyEnd

Calina wrote: »

you are allowed to nominate yourself although I personally never do.

Didn't know you could do that and like you I wouldn't nominate myself either.


I'm heading to the awards whether I'm nominated or not. Hotel and flights booked. Should be a great weekend.

elven

If I was Irish i'd be pimping for votes - but I don't think I'm allowed! Well, that and... I have a rather niche audience :rolleyes:

Calina

Yes you are. One of last year's nominees was Polish, based in Nenagh County Tipp.

kjt

I hope to see some of you guys up there

Best of luck to everybody!!

Anouilh

elven wrote: »

If I was Irish i'd be pimping for votes - but I don't think I'm allowed! Well, that and... I have a rather niche audience :rolleyes:

It is for "Irish" related blogs and not a nationality test.
I have nominated people who were not born here.

ThOnda

Anouilh wrote: »

... I have nominated people who were not born here.

Culchies?

Valentia

Culann wrote: »

My blog is in the nominations list for the first time, so....good luck me, but I won't be holding my breath.

Interesting. How do you know this a day before nominations close?

I nominated myself. If I was waiting for someone else I'd be waiting so what the heck...:p I also mentioned one or two others

Fionn

whats this blogs thing?
and
who are you calling a culchie???

:):rolleyes:;):D:pac:

he he laughs!! etc....

hey Danny hows the going???

Anouilh

ThOnda wrote: »

Culchies?

By that reckoning I am beyond the Pale and should not be in the running for nomination.

A Galwegian by birth.

latchiko

I was lucky enough to be shortlisted last year which was very unexpected. While there's nothing stopping you from nominating yourself (I think), part of the magic for me last year was seeing my url on the nominations list and knowing that somebody out there not only enjoyed by blog but took the time to nominate it.
I'm looking forward to seeing the list once it's announced. There are always a few new blogs in there worth checking out and I still have some of my discoveries from last year in my feed reader.

Marcus

Anouilh wrote: »

Photo Bloggers might like to be nominated for the
Irish Blog Awards.

http://awards.ie/blogawards/nominations/

We have until 14 January, 2009 to decide who will be
Ireland's Top Bloggers.

Good man! I was just about to post that nominations are closing today!

Pixie is sponsoring the Best Photo Blog category again this year

Marcus

Anouilh

iampixie wrote: »

Good man! I was just about to post that nominations are closing today!

Pixie is sponsoring the Best Photo Blog category again this year

Marcus

Glad to be of service...

Anouilh

But...


I'm a Lady

Marcus

Anouilh wrote: »

But...
I'm a Lady

Oooops - Good woman!

rymus

iampixie wrote: »

Pixie is sponsoring the Best Photo Blog category again this year

Great stuff.. Was going to ask Damien who the sponsor was.. Now I don't need to

Anouilh

Now that the nominations are closed it would be interesting to know if there are any rumours about who has been nominated.

Exciting times...

Anouilh

The Blog Awards people are looking for judges.
This would be a great opportunity to learn about blogging from the inside, as well as for photographers to have their input.

http://awards.ie/blogawards/2009/01/14/want-to-be-a-blog-awards-09-judge/

The interesting thing about the Internet is that for the first time, we have a medium of communication that has the power to be truly democratic.

rymus

Anouilh wrote: »

Now that the nominations are closed it would be interesting to know if there are any rumours about who has been nominated.

I could nearly give you a list off the top of my head if the last few years are anything to go by.

Anouilh

rymus wrote: »

I could nearly give you a list off the top of my head if the last few years are anything to go by.

You may be right, in part.

However, I think there are quite a few new faces on the block.

I nominated a very good web designer who has only made a photo blog recently.

It's all very inspiring, as more people lose their fear of making work in public and having it reviewed by a wide audience.

Valentia

You will find that most nominees know of or each other. The nominations are based as much on how actively people participate in the community as on the quality of the snaps. That's just the way most online stuff works.

There are the odd exceptions like DDOI & A Walk Through Durham Township. But these are international. No Irish photoblog that I know of has broken through on any scale like these either at home of abroad.

Both of these blogs have a big advantage over us though. They get real weather!

Anouilh

Brave photographers may be out in Ireland at the moment recording the lashing winds and rain. We may as well photograph what is there.

There are some very good photographers in the "Photo Blog" category for last year's awards:

http://awards.ie/blogawards/2008/02/11/irish-blog-awards-2008-shortlists/

Your view that participation in a community leads to success is true. I was nominated in the first round two years ago by a really friendly poster on Blather.net.
We had some nice chats afterwards, but he seems to have disappeared.

Has anybody seen Podge recently?

Could be a photographic quest...

GristlyEnd

Nominations will be announced tomorrow. Excited to see who has been nominated.

Anouilh

Voilà!

http://awards.ie/blogawards/2009/01/20/2009-irish-blog-awards-nominations/

GristlyEnd

Some familiar blogs there and some new ones.

rymus

loads of new ones.. will have to do a little bit of browsing after lunch to check out the competition

Marcus

Congrats to all those that made the list! Best of luck for the shortlist

kjt

A dang lot of blogs up! Congrats to everybody

rymus

Tis that time of year again...





/me starts filling brown envelopes with small, unmarked, non-sequential bills.

elven

Good to see a few boardsies up there as well as the usual blogging crowd. Show them how it's done, people!

rymus

elven wrote: »

Good to see a few boardsies up there as well as the usual blogging crowd.

No it's not! The smaller the list the better ffs. It's going to take a portion of my cunning to get shortlisted on this one.

Calina

Well I wasn't nominated this year so that's one of last year's shortlistees out of contention anyway.

kjt

How are they shortlisted? online voting or a panel from awards.ie?

rymus

panel.. Public voting proved not to be a good system because well.. the public are stupid.

thebaz

good stuff , makes the effort of updating a blog worthwhile , like football I'm always close to hanging up the boots - though want to comlete the year !!

http://www.photoblog.com/thebaz

hopefully someone here wins

mikeanywhere

rymus wrote: »

/me starts filling brown envelopes with small, unmarked, non-sequential bills.

Can we make sure that its not Monopoly money this year please??

rymus

same as always Mike. real bills on top.. monopoly money underneath

(and good running shoes on)

Anouilh

Congratulations to all the nominees.

The hidden work a blog takes is often hidden from all but the most discerning viewer.

Well done!

PonderStibbons

My oh my, somebody nominated me It's incredibly awesome to think that at least one person enjoys my blog enough to bother to do that (I just hope it wasn't my mum...) Great to have some encouragement now and again.

Culann

Culann wrote: »

My blog is in the nominations list for the first time, so....good luck me, but I won't be holding my breath.

I was getting carried away with myself a bit there, but I'm now on the longlist. I'll be happy to be shortlisted, especially going up against the likes of http://inphotos.org/

Anouilh

I feel I should stand up and take a bow as well.

http://photographedublin.blogspot.com/

is on the list.

Anouilh

thebaz wrote: »

good stuff , makes the effort of updating a blog worthwhile , like football I'm always close to hanging up the boots - though want to comlete the year !!

http://www.photoblog.com/thebaz

hopefully someone here wins

Certainly the more advanced photographers here have a good chance of winning.

What do Boards.ies think of the general standard of the nominated blogs?

Anouilh

Bumping this because it is topical.

Also, there are many blogs that do not fit into the "Photography" category, but which have some very technically skilled photos.

Ice Cream Ireland is a personal favourite...
and there are recipes there as well.

rymus

Anouilh wrote: »

What do Boards.ies think of the general standard of the nominated blogs?

The ones in the list of nominated photoblogs that are actually photoblogs are decent enough for the most part. There are exceptions, but I won't open that can of worms right now. Maybe in the last week of February.

GristlyEnd

It's going to be very interesting to see the long list then short list. Then I will help open that can of worms.

rymus

Indeed it is. It's not going to be as easy this year to guess who'll be on the shortlist. Last year I had the winner picked by the time the nominations list came out

I do think I know who'll be on the shortlist, but it's both tempting fate and giving people leeway to bitch and moan if I start mentioning names. Anyway, anyone that's been in & around the photoblogging community for a few years will know the potential shortlist at this stage.

Anouilh

rymus wrote: »

The ones in the list of nominated photoblogs that are actually photoblogs are decent enough for the most part. .

This seems to say that there is a blueprint for what a Photoblog is. It would be interesting to know what you think is not a photoblog, so that bloggers could think about it and improve.

I'm interested in how Boards.ie readers perceive the Irish Photblogs they have come across. Perhaps comparing with other blogs in the wider internation community would help see whether this country is well represented?


I miss the public voting system. Somehow the panel of judges seems a less engaging system.