2005 South African Blog Awards - Conclusion Part 2
D’ave said “Working hard is not an excuse for not blogging” so I’m going to say that I’ve been partying too hard and I’ve been too hung over to blog.
But I’m sitting now getting ready to watch the racing (I’m a Williams fan, but I think Kimi is going to take the championship) and writing this now; as Abstract Deviance says “Geek Nirvana”.
The primary topic of this post is a review of the SA Blog Awards. I think it opened a lot of eyes about the nature of blogging in South Africa. For myself, I never realised blogging was so big outside of the technical sphere; which makes me really think about Scoble’s comments about RSS feeds for websites. Really, I would never have thought that there was a Food category!
Well done to all the winners of the SA Blog Awards for 2005 as well as to the runners up.
Personally, I feel invigorated by the awards and I’ve been having thoughts about what I can do in my blog to get a nomination next year. I would like to compete in the Technical and Lifestyle categories; picking up best writing and best design along the way. Currently I’m referred to as “Umm a guy from dotnet” by Aquila Online.
This isn’t a rant, but I do agree with Aquila that RSS feeds should be compulsory for a blog. Even my news comes from a feed, why should I visit your site to know what’s going on; make a feed available for me and I’ll read it.
So the blogs I’m going read since going to the awards: Aqulia Online and Cherryflava. Blog you should read because of the awards: Joblog, 2Oceansvibe and Commentary.