Irish Blog and Podcast Awards

damien · 10-10-2005 11:17am #1

I've been thinking that the bloggersphere and podcastsphere in Ireland is now mature enough for us to have our own awards thingy. I've talked about it more on my blog here: http://www.mulley.net/archives/000677.html

The awards would be beneficial for a few reasons:

1)It sets a level of quality that other new bloggers and podcasters can aspire to.
2)It advertises blogs and podcasts others may have not have been aware of.
3)It shows you who your peers are.
4)It can help advertise blogs and podcasts to a larger audience via press coverage.

Suggested Blog Categories:
(add or amend these as you see fit)

* Best Blogger
* Best Blog Post
* Best New Blogger
* Best Contribution to the Boggersphere (Tech wise)
* Best Potential Blogger i.e. Someone we'd like to see blogging
* Best Photo Blog
* Best Fictional Piece in a Blog
* Best Art Blog
* Best Political Blog (Judging for this will be "fun")
* Best Group Blog
* Best Comment/Commenter
* Best Personal Blog

Suggested Podcast Categories:
(Need help with these so suggest away)

* Podcast of the year
* Podcaster/Podcasting site of the year
* Best Music Podcast
* Best Current Affairs Podcast
* Best Tech Podcast

zepp · 12-10-2005 12:06am

ya good idea. Will there be free booze

zepp · 16-10-2005 3:25pm

How about Marty whealan to host

damien · 16-10-2005 3:55pm

Close, so close. I have someone else in mind. I'm sure Marty is booked out opening up hair salons and so forth.

RagShagBill · 20-10-2005 1:22pm

How about that mental lad who does that show with the scratch cards? I'd swear he pops a few E-tabs before going on air. Or that Telly Bingo guy.

smiaras · 20-10-2005 1:52pm

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damien · 20-10-2005 2:13pm

Mmmmhmm. I'll have more information on the event here: http://www.awards.ie/blogawards/ when I get a chance to type it up.

It will not be an online event, it'll be in Dublin, though not sure where and when yet.

Hugh Hefner · 20-10-2005 2:59pm

What would be the requirements for the nominees? Have to be Irish? Living in Ireland? Born in Ireland? Media has to be hosted in Ireland?

damien · 20-10-2005 3:12pm

Perhaps as loose as the requirements for the Irish Soccer Team.

Born in Ireland, living/or lived in Ireland. If we had it as open as "considers themselves Irish" we'd have half the population of America putting themselves forward.

Anyone that is on the IrishBlogs.ie or PlanetoftheBlogs.com aggregator would be included.

BuffyBot · 20-10-2005 6:11pm

Best Potential Blogger i.e. Someone we'd like to see blogging

This one's a bit..fuzzy, no? An "award" for someone we'd like to see do something? It's living giving an Oscar to Catherine Zeta Jones because we'd like to see her jump off a cliff.

damien · 20-10-2005 6:22pm

Actually yeah you have a cliff, I mean a point. Well, we'll remove that as an award and change it to uhm, what could it be called? A suggestion? A wish?

smiaras · 20-10-2005 8:23pm

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BuffyBot · 20-10-2005 9:26pm

Actually yeah you have a cliff, I mean a point. Well, we'll remove that as an award and change it to uhm, what could it be called? A suggestion? A wish?

The First Annual BuffyBot Award For Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Blogging?

damien · 20-10-2005 9:33pm

smiaras wrote:

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I do. Check your GMail. Emailed you earlier today.

zepp · 24-10-2005 12:31am

how about best international blog. could be the booker prise of blogs

monkeyfudge · 24-10-2005 11:54pm

I can offer the use of the Conference Room in the Northside Civic Centre again as I did for TechCamp.

If it's done in an evening then there shouldn't be any need for extra secuirity costs. Bottles of wine are even permissible if the building is given enough notice.

But I guess it all depends on how fancy an affair you want the whole to thing be... and Coolock is a lot of things... but it certainly isn't fancy.

smiaras · 25-10-2005 2:07pm

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RagShagBill · 31-10-2005 6:08pm

I've also got a call in with a pub just beside Liberty Hall, can't remember the name off the top of my head.

Please, oh please let it be "The Garden of Eden" which is possibly the most hilariously sleezy looking joint in town. I don't think it is though. Anything is good for me, to be honest. As long as I can get in, I'm not 18 until the end of November.

smiaras · 31-10-2005 8:37pm

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monkeyfudge · 01-11-2005 1:17pm

Well as per your recent blog entry, smiaras some scantly clad women posing with the winners would get you the photo published in the papers.

But I think you might be talking about the old Liffey Inn which has recently become a trendy jazz and regae place called Soul 17 or somesuch.

Oh... and the wireless in the Globe isn't free by the way... but you can just about pick up the eircom wireless from one of thier phone boxes outside which is free.

damien · 01-11-2005 1:30pm

Perhaps Clearwire would sponsor a wireless connection for the evening? Wifi isn't essential though. A good quiet room, with room for a projector of some sort and a sound system is more essential.

RagShagBill · 01-11-2005 4:14pm

Any word on the nomination process yet?

damien · 01-11-2005 4:20pm

Details by the end of the week, I promise!

damien · 03-11-2005 9:32pm

Rightso. New posts on nomination process and a few more things.

damien · 14-11-2005 9:00am

RopeDrink wrote:

We're hoping to merge the upcoming Blog Awards with the actual Boards Awards, making it into one big event. It'd certainly make it more appealing to attend, and saves everyone the hassle of having to attend two seperate bashes.

First I heard about it. Who's this "we"?

zepp · 16-11-2005 12:55am

interesting Idea but then are the boards linked to the blogs sphere. if people thought they were would anyone care. but when are these on. anyway.

monkeyfudge · 23-11-2005 1:47am

I'm not too sure about the idea of combining the boards.ie awards and the blog and podcast awards.

I would have thought one of the main aims of the awards would be to raise the profile of Irish Blogging and Podcasting... and the boards.ie awards, while they sound like fun, will be heavily loaded with in-jokes and won't be very relevant.

flogen · 24-11-2005 12:42pm

monkeyfudge wrote:

I'm not too sure about the idea of combining the boards.ie awards and the blog and podcast awards.

I would have thought one of the main aims of the awards would be to raise the profile of Irish Blogging and Podcasting... and the boards.ie awards, while they sound like fun, will be heavily loaded with in-jokes and won't be very relevant.

Yeah, I think blogging in Ireland should be treated as a unique entity, so bunching it in with boards.ie would just hinder it.

jrey1981 · 25-11-2005 11:45pm

Would be interested in nominating my blog if it is eligible to enter...

Can anyone give me a tip or two on changing the text colours on my blog, as I am a bit rubbish at html?

billy the squid · 06-12-2005 7:29am

jrey1981 wrote:

Would be interested in nominating my blog if it is eligible to enter...

Can anyone give me a tip or two on changing the text colours on my blog, as I am a bit rubbish at html?

here is a colour code table for colours in HTML
http://html-color-codes.com/

just replace the three characters after the # where applicable. you are using blogger so where to put the colours should be easy enough as the html labeled pretty well on blogger.

flogen · 04-01-2006 6:24pm

BUMP!

Any progress on this, the blog hasn't been updated since Nov 26th, would really like to see this going ahead, if any help is needed I'll do whatever I can.

monkeyfudge · 04-01-2006 6:39pm

Yeah. Just thinking about this today as well.

I'm willing to help out too. And my offer of hosting the event for free still stands if finding somewhere in the city centre is proving difficult.

damien · 04-01-2006 8:51pm

Well, I got a logo created thanks to Alan. I'm in Dublin Fri and Sat so will be looking for a venue. The website has to be moved to a faster server. All in due course. Right now I'm more giving a damn about my dayjob and college course. Once I find the venue I'll announce. All judges are ready to roll.

flogen · 04-01-2006 9:07pm

damien.m wrote:

Right now I'm more giving a damn about my dayjob and college course.

Pfft, get your priorities right man, there are Irish bloggers out there that need their ego's rubbed and loved!!!

Seriously though, like the logo and look forward to what's to come. If you do need help with anything I know I'm not alone in offering my help.

damien · 04-01-2006 9:10pm

Find a good venue! Everything else is ready to go from what I can see.

flogen · 04-01-2006 9:16pm

sorry what? I can't hear you... I'm busy being helpful.

damien · 04-01-2006 11:08pm

Nomination Process is now open.

monkeyfudge · 04-01-2006 11:19pm

So the podcasting bit has been dropped altogether then?

I like the logo by the way.

damien · 04-01-2006 11:26pm

Stay tuned for something about podcasting. Myself and Cloud and Smiaras are going to be annoucing something in regards to that soon. The Blog Awards could be classed as a test run.

mneylon · 21-01-2006 5:24pm

Have you got a date yet?

Who are the judges?

Irish Blog and Podcast Awards

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