Year: 2003

So the New Year has started, and while we may not have the most to look forward to economically or politically, but personally I feel it’s started well. Movies and drink with friends, Indian meals, Chinese meals and many movies (including Chicago) have capped off a very pleasant holiday period, which – for me – well and truly ends tomorrow when I return to work full-time. It’s all had a slightly crippling effect on my wallet, though. So I doubt there’ll be much partying or many expensive lunches for the next few weeks. But I’m not letting that stop me get WiFi’d up the wazoo! That’s the most important tech thing for me to do at the moment…

So the annual weblog awards voted for by the community and for the community have come around once more. It’s Bloggies 2003 and there are strange new exotic categories for nominations and brand new opportunities for scampery and fun. A couple of things to remember: (1) Davo and Luke now very definitely are eligible in the Best Australasian category, (2) if you really want to be exposed to loads and loads of new weblogs then it’s best to be a judge if you can (I’m not going to be this year), (4) plasticbag.org will be quite comfortable being nominated in these categories: Best European, Best GLBT, Best Designed, Weblog of the Year or Best Article or Essay (if you can’t find any good ones you could always nominate the article in the Guardian which talked about the differences between the Bloggies and the Guardian Best British Weblog award). I’d even cheerily take a Lifetime Achievement Award off your hands if you were drunk enough to proffer it… (5) Other good weblogs you should look towards over several categories are cityofsound.typepad.com, interconnected.org, ultrasparky.org, BoingBoing.net and (particularly for the geeks) diveintomark.org. All very much recommended for very different reasons…