South African Blog Awards 2005

The best blog in the universe! Yeah dude, I rock! responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 9:32 am #

SA Blog Awards
FatherRay responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 10:30 am #

blogs without a feed should be disqualified from future awards
Aquila Online responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 11:02 am #

And The Winner Is

Pictures — With much pomp and circumstance, the Johannesburg chapter of the SA Blog Awards 2005 was held at Cool Runnings in Melville last night.
Gabbahead - self-serving Populism responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 11:08 am #

The Bloggie Awards rock!

A quick note, along with a big thanks to the J
James responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 11:14 am #

I don’t agree. A feed is a nice feature, but it doesn’t define what a blog is. We can’t constrain things that much.
Aquila responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 12:23 pm #

But a feed will definitely keep your visitors updated and interested in your blog. No feed, no view (in most cases).
Cherryflava responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 1:20 pm #

Winners galore

The limos started pulling up to Obz cafe just as twilight dusted Table Mountain with a pink glow. Crickets chirped, birds made their way home to roost in autumn oaks and paparazzi flashbulbs burnt the images of Cape Town top
Redsaid responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 2:05 pm #

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

My reason for making early-morning, high-pitched dolphin sounds is this! I’m stunned, but unfortunately for everyone, not stunned enough to be quiet, ha ha ha! I can’t believe - well, so many things, really, but most of all - the…
redsaid responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 2:25 pm #

Thank you sooo much! I’m delighted! (Well, completely floored is more like it.)

Anyway, I’ll just run along now before you realise your mistake and take it back!
anonymous responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 4:48 pm #

2oceansvibe is complete kak. There I said it.
Coffee-Shop Schmuck -- Artist-at-Large responded on 18 Mar 2005 at 6:27 pm #

Cool Runnings, Melville

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Service: *
Food: N/A
Ambience: * * * *
Babe Count: * * * * *

The dudes from MISSING LINK have organised a party to celebrate the winners of SA Blog Awards. They’re the Jo’Blog guys, and they’re in the running for hug…
Simon Stewart responded on 19 Mar 2005 at 6:00 pm #

Thanks a stack for organising these awards!

btw, can I use the sa blog awards 2005 logo on my site.

Next year JeanPant.com is DEFINITELY going to win something, maybe not tech blog of the year though. Maybe the How-To-Overhaul-A-V8-Over-A-Weekend-Blog.
Neuvo responded on 20 Mar 2005 at 8:55 am #

2005 South African blog awards

So I was browsing through the newer posts on Coffe-Shop Schmuck and I noticed a reference to the 2005 South African blog awards. And there I was labouring under the mistaken belief that the local blogging scene was grossly under-developed and limited….
The Mail Owl Scrolls responded on 20 Mar 2005 at 9:51 am #

2005 South African Blog Awards - Conclusion Part 2
rocco | dirtysanchez.co.za responded on 21 Mar 2005 at 8:43 am #

I am not afraid to say the following and attach my name to the comment: I think some of the categories that won were completely deservant of their award. Well done and good on you lot (Redsaid, Commentary etc) but…

I think that while the good spirit that this event was intended to be run with remains, the credibility of the whole exercise has been eroded by having a poor looking, poorly slapped together, advertising hot-spot of site winning the overall award.

Would I be singing a different tune if I had won? I don’t know. If I had, who knows what might have happened: After receiving the award, my distended sense of self worth, fueled by flu-aggravated dementia, might have pushed me over the edge and I would sell my Monty Python collection on a whim to some pimply ingrate on eBay, while my household pets suffer the indignity of having to drink water from the toilet bowl because I become too absorbed in blogging to remain unplugged and integrated into daily life and social interactivity, except for the addictive lure of chat rooms, where I drop soliloquay deliberately in order to attract attention from once-fawning sycophants regarding my brief yet auspicious recognition as winner of a blog award, the frustration of their ignorance, eventually driving me to the point of madness where I listen to Violent Femme’s Hallowed Ground over and over and contemplate genocide and coup attempts on small pacific island states…

It’s like stopping Hitler at Munich.

Jokes aside, I am not much of a designer and therefore didn’t have the audacity to enter into any of the categories where quality of design was a factor. Nevertheless, seeing 2OceansVibe winning it, makes me doubt the power of democracy and the validity of anonymous voting.
divesouthafrica responded on 22 Mar 2005 at 3:56 pm #

hi,

This comes as a total surprise to me. Our blog, South African scuba diving, marine and environmental blog (http://www.divesouth.co.za/blog - now changed to http://divesouthafrica.blogspot.com) has been awarded the runner-up in the “Environmental” category.

Thank you for those who nominated us and thank you to those who voted. We appreciate it very much. We do promise to provide a quality blog for many a year to come.
Thanks
Jo'blog responded on 28 Mar 2005 at 8:10 pm #

Do these grapes taste a bit funny to you?

I’m really struggling with how to write this post, as a runner up I can only imagine how it’s going to come across, but fuck it, it needs to be said. First port of call was Obz café in
phillipa responded on 13 Apr 2005 at 8:23 am #

SA Blog Awards (we didn’t win any )