WP: Awards Salute Best in Blogging

[DeepModem Mom]

Awards Salute Best in Blogging
By Leslie Walker
Sunday, March 20, 2005; Page F07


Blog mogul Nick Denton's gossipy online empire walked off with four awards at the 2005 Bloggies, while a woman fired for her Web log also snagged four prizes for her edgy postings about motherhood and the mundane annoyances of life.

Dooce, the comic diary written by not-so-super mom Heather B. Armstrong, was named Best American Blog at the ceremony held in Austin on Monday. Dooce (www.dooce.com) also won in the humor, writing and tagline categories (one of her site's mottos: "Not your average clenched-cheek sprint to the bathroom"). Until last week, Armstrong was best known for getting canned from her Web-designer job in 2002 for writing this caustic, often sexually explicit blog. "Dooced" has since become cyber-speak for getting fired for blogging.

Also cleaning up in the fifth annual Web log awards were three sites owned by Denton's Gawker Media company. His Hollywood gossip site, Defamer (www.defamer.com), was named best entertainment blog and also best new blog; D.C.-based Wonkette (www.wonkette.com) got the nod for best political blog (that makes it official: politics is basically snarky gossip); while Gizmodo (www.gizmodo.com) took top honors for technology writing.

Web log of the year went to Boing Boing (www.boingboing.net), a tech-savvy site about "wonderful things" jointly written by several people. Best "meme," or new idea, about Web logs went to Flickr (www.flickr.com) for pioneering a photo-tagging system that makes image-sharing more social.

Winners were chosen through public voting at the official Bloggies site (2005.bloggies.com)....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48976-2005Mar19.html

[FlemingsGhost]

1. "Wonkette?" Pffftttt .... Shows the level of political sophication in US

These days, the truth doesn't garner industry awards.

Ask Michael Moore.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Is Wonkette right wing or something?

[Pirate Smile]

5. No. She leans left but snarks anyone.

[medeak]

2. what? no Josh Marshall?

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

[wabeewoman]

4. Looked around trying to find out

who it is that is deciding these 'best blogs' but couldn't find anything. Don't think they are near as good as the Koufax awards-at least to my tastes.