Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
The nominations are now open for the 2008 Bloggies, an annual blog award run since 2001 by Nikolai Nolan of www.fairview.com, in Detroit, Michigan. Anyone can nominate their favourite weblogs in thirty categories. Nominations close on Friday, January 11, 2008. The finalists will be chosen by three panels of 50 voters between January 13 and 18. On January 22 the finalists will be announced and voting will be open again to members of the public until January 31. The winners will be announced sometime between Sunday, March 9 and Tuesday, March 11, online and at the Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, USA.
The Categories for 2008
Best Web Application for Weblogs
Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog
Best Asian Weblog
Best African Weblog
Best European Weblog
Best Latin American Weblog
Best Canadian Weblog
Best American Weblog
Best Photography of a Weblog
Best Art or Craft Weblog
Best Food Weblog
Best Fashion Weblog
Best Weblog About Music
Best Gossip Blog
Best Entertainment Weblog
Best Sports Weblog
Best Weblog About Politics
Best Computers or Technology Weblog
Best Topical Weblog
Best GLBT Weblog
Best Teen Weblog
Most Humorous Weblog
Best Writing of a Weblog
Best Group Weblog
Best Community Weblog
Best-Designed Weblog
Best-Kept Secret Weblog
Best New Weblog
Lifetime Achievement
Weblog of the Year
Previous Best Australian/NZ Blogs
2007
The Breakfast Blog, Aussielicious (contains explicit content), Holties House, Tokyo Girl Down Under, Kitta.net
2006
Loobylu, Ben Cruachan Blog, Trivial Pursuit, Information Aesthetics, Karen Cheng
2005
What’s New, Pussycat?, Bizgirl, Boudist, Spiceblog, Kitta.net
2004
Loobylu, BrainSluice, PixelKitty.net, Synapse,
ScorpioGirl
2003
Loobylu, AndromedaGirl, Wetlog, LukeLog, What’s New, Pussycat?
2002
Loobylu, Wetlog, Side Bar, WaferBaby, What’s New, Pussycat
2001
Loobylu, Wetlog, Side Bar, WaferBaby, What’s New, Pussycat
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Kathie Thomas at Soho-Life has posted the first Blog Carnival of Australia for 2008.
The Blog Carnival of Australia is a fortnightly collection of blog posts, often focused on a theme, submitted and collated by volunteers, and organised by Megan Bayliss of ImaginIf. Categories are Culture, Food, Politics, History, Outback, Environment, Family, Indigenous issues, Slanguage, Travel, Technology, Business, Music, Helping a mate, Mates, Animals, Literature, Sport, Current Affairs, Walkabout.
In this latest round I put in a post on Kevin Rudd and Labor’s vision for Australia’s future, from Duncan’s Political Ads, a section of Duncan’s TV I created on Christmas Day 2007.
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
GodBlogCon is a Christian conference in the United States aiming to bring together GodBloggers, creating community and helping bloggers become better contributors in the new media. This year the conference is being held in Las Vegas, November 8 and 9, connected with BlogWorld and New Media Expo. The conferences are being supplemented by an executive and entrepreneur conference on November 7, 8 and 9.
Speakers at Godblogcon
Al Mohler - Pioneering the New Media for Christ
John Mark Reynolds (Scriptorium Daily) - Focus and Motivation
Mark D. Roberts - Taking Your Ministry to the New Media
Rhett Smith - New Media Ministry to the Myspace - Facebook Generation
Joe Carter (Family Research Council) - Identifying Impact in Culture for Christians in New Media
Bonnie Lindbolm (Intellectuelle) - Communicating Biblical Womanhood
Paul Spears (Scriptorium Daily) - Trafficking in Substance
Dustin Steeve (Scriptorium Daily) - Basics of Blogging
La Shawn Barber - Writing Well in the New Media
Kevin Wang (Zeit Studios) - Design Desiderata for the Godblogger
Jeff VanderGiessen (Mars Hill Church) - Developing a Pod and Vidcast Ministry
I’ve been informed by Des Walsh, a fellow Aussie blogger, that he’s speaking at the entrepreneur’s conference. Anybody else planning to be at any of the conferences in Las Vegas? Or been to the earlier Godblogcon events? What did you think?
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