OJR Blog Awards List

From the Online Journalism Review’s Mark Glaser, a story that sums up the state of blog awards.

Glaser points out that historically blog awards (and prizes) have been a bit ad hoc—from user nominations to user voting to user-contributed prizes. This is in keeping with the nature of blogs, but possibly not a permanent situation as larger entities like the Washington Post and Forbes join the fray.

In the space of a few years, Weblogs have gone from the province of chatty geeks into mainstream culture and political thought. But the way awards are bestowed on the best blogs remains a strange brew of popularity contests, online campaigning and secretive judging. And that’s not far off from the chaotic nature of blogging itself, eschewing academies of voters, esteemed panels and award hardware.

Especially useful in this pieces is the handy list of existing blog awards.

Posted by Susannah Gardner on 02/16 at 08:45 AM • Blogging Events

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