Irish Blog Awards 2009 Nominations
While I’m dragging my feet splintering off a new personal blog from IrishKC, under cover of something happening in America, I can let you know that IrishKC has been nominated in the Irish Blog Awards 2009 in the Best Arts & Culture Blog category (sponsored by Poetry Ireland).
I wouldn’t see it going any further (there’s a longlist and a shortlist before a winner is chosen) - because there’s way too much quality on way too many other blogs, but given there’s an estimated 4,000 Irish blogs in existence it’s nice to be nominated.
My American Hell was also nominated - in the Best Humour Blog category. And that makes me laugh. (Ha ha! See what I did there!). This category is sponsored by Beecher Networks.
For me the best thing about these awards has always been the exposure it gives to blogs you’re unfamiliar with. And as the lists are only going to get shorter now is the best time to go exploring - check out the 2009 Irish Blog Awards Nominations. Even for the people who disagree with lists, it’s a perfect opportunity to give attention to sites you think more deserving.
Update: The nominees for Best Blog Post have now been announced.
The logo above and a smaller version are available here
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Congratulations on the nomination! I’ve enjoyed clicking through to a lot of blogs I hadn’t discovered yet, and that I might not have come across otherwise. There’s no way *I’ll* be surviving to the long list against these folks, but I’m so glad to find them–there’s a lot of good stuff being written out here.
Thanks also for the lovely badges this year!
Congrats!! Whoo hoo!
Nice one.I’ve decided to celebrate your nom-nom by nicking one of your fine badges.
Cheers!
Well done Eolaí, I’m waiting for the best post nominations and then I’m going for a trawl to discover new folks.
A big congratulations is in order! Slowly but surely, this blog has risen on my RSS feed page and it’s nice to see other people noticing your good work as well.
Congrats, Eolai!
When’s the new site going up?
Susan - Thanks Susan. Yep those lists are the best guides to what’s at least current out there.
Patricia - You’ll be very tired if you whoo hoo everybody that’s nominated! But I’ll happily take my whoo hoo and say thanks.
Devin - It’s what they’re there for, the cynical seeking of traffic being my goal of course
Conan - The lists are frightening in their newness, and I must confess to having been very bad this last year at reading new sites - and it showed in the sitees I nominated. But even without the Most Humoroous Post this year there should be more than enough in the Best Blog Post.
Owen - And there was me thinking I was winding down dramatically these last few months. Thank you though.
Medbh - In a matter of hours - at least that’s what I’ve been saying for a week now. It actually is fully created - I just haven’t written my first post. Stage fright I think - a far cry from the first ever post on Irish KC
Yea you! Congrats!