I voted today on the blogs that deserve a Bloggie award. Here is my list:
Best App for blog – Ecto
Best Australian/NZ blog – Problogger and Emergent Kiwi
Best UK blog – Jonny Baker and Rob Pepper’s Daily Drawing Diary
Best Canadian blog – Jordon Cooper
Best Asian blog – Messy Christian
Best European blog – Mark Reichmann
Best Tech blog – Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog
Best Community blog – BoingBoing
Best Design – Problogger (design by Rachel at Cre8d-Design)
Lifetime Achievement – I voted for myself [ i know . . . how VAIN!!!], and i also voted for Jordon Cooper and Moby who has kept a simple, consistent online journal for many years.
If you are comparing my blog with other pre-July 2001 bloggers who qualify for this prize, you might want to look at my stats:
Here are the numbers from my blog which has been hosted by Blogger (2001-2003) and then Typepad (2003-present)
Typepad – 1,347 posts with 6, 234 comments (and i have read every one).
Blogger – 1,077 posts.
You can view how my Tallskinnykiwi blog has looked in the past with snapshots from the Wayback Machine. There is no record of my first blog – Andrew’s Tea Salon (1997) on the Wayback Machine – i have requested it but it is lost deep inside the guts of Geocities.
BTW – while you are checking out blogs of the past – take a look at how advanced Jordon Cooper’s blog was back in 2001. If you don’t vote for me in the Lifetime achievement award, then vote for Coop!
thanks mate – I’m very flattered. You’re the guy who inspired me to blog so I always take note of what you say and appreciate your kind words.
and you are the only one i have inspired to blog that has figured out how to make some dollars with it
congrats on problogger for your massive success. and congrats to rachael also for a killer design.
I added you and Jordon to the lifetime achievement section and Darren to the Australian/NZ bit.
Personally I went for the ‘he who wants to be greatest should be least’ approach and told my readers why they shouldn’t vote for me. I think they saw through it though.
Hey Andrew,
Good luck with the nominations. I’m pulling for you on the lifetime category. I just recently started reading your site and I appreciate the advice you gave me on mine. I found yours through Joe Kennedy. Thanks for the great content.
I don’t think I deserved a lifetime achievement award nomination but thanks. That was nice to read. Instead of me, I suggest Rudy Carrasco who along with you, me, and Karen Ward, were some of first Christian bloggers.
Wow, thanks for picking me. 😯 I didn’t expect this at all. The Bloggies sound like a fun event – I’m going to pick my selection too. 🙂