Comments on: New categories for Blog Awards 2009?

By: PLAYLIFE

PLAYLIFE — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:45:55 +0000

I can’t see any categories for LGBT (Gay)community.

I hope mine will qualifies for the gay personal blog

By: Benny the Bridgebuilder

Benny the Bridgebuilder — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:26:00 +0000

Why not best religious blog. This would be religion in the widest sense including militant atheism (does this still exist) and agnosticism (for completeness). It would not exclude humour, sarcasm, cynicism and pure faith.

This is Ireland, after all!

By: UnaRocks

UnaRocks — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:54:33 +0000

Best LGBT blog?

“We’ll happily consider creating a new category if there are at least a dozen active blogs covering that category in Ireland. ”

http://www.pantibar.com/blog.aspx
http://tainerblog.blogspot.com/
http://theljournal.blogspot.com/
http://www.gaelick.com/
http://www.gcn.ie/blogs.aspx
http://bonhom.ie/
http://butcherqueers.blogspot.com/

Um, I’m sure there are more…

By: Fran

Fran — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:31:42 +0000

I think that their should be a category for Best Blog Award prop/event promotional gimmick. To qualify they have to lightweight, unique, easily stolen, and recyclable. Unfortunately, if they are digestable they don’t qualify (http://www.dublincupcakes.com/).

By: HJ

HJ — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:00:50 +0000

How’s about an award for best educational blog? Check out blog.sccscience.com or http://www.sccenglish.ie. How can you nominate?

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:02:14 +0000

I too reckon some categories could be combined, like pop culture/music/arts and culture, personal/parenting and photos/videos. I like the idea of a lifestyle category for arts, crafts, interiors, fashion and beauty. Obviously, whatever the people who do all the hard work organising and running the damn thing decide is OK with me.

I agree that any new category has to have enough blogs to take part. You could try out new categories and if there aren’t enough blogs nominated, then combine them into the specialist category used last year.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:31:20 +0000

How about a travel blog category? Maybe this would fit under lifestyle, but there are probably enough Irish travel bloggers out there to have it as a category of its own.

By: CW

CW — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:14:37 +0000

How about best comedy blog? Best Irish ex-pat blog (ie by an Irish blogger based overseas)?

By: seamus

seamus — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:11:41 +0000

Best New Comer

By: Sabrina Dent

Sabrina Dent — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:57:06 +0000

I’m with all of the above who are for lumping. The problem is that when you get the odd, very finite blog award category (Best Craft Blog) it eventually makes it quite silly to not have additional, equally finite blog categories (as with the suggested Best Science Blog.)

Now, *how* to lump is another question but I think all of the above are nice suggestions.