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Washington Post recognizes Bloggies

It is a bit of old news for me, but a lot of you maybe have not seen the article printed in the Sunday, January 29, 2006 issue of The Washington Post.

As a lot of you know the Bloggies are a pretty big deal in this wonderful blogsphere. Although some of us don’t share the same feelings on who wins, we can all still vote on who we want to win in each of the categories.

The article was “When It Comes to Blogs, There Aren’t Enough Words” by Leslie Walker. Ms. Walker gives praise to some of the blogs nominated and totally rips on some of the others.

In a recent IM interview with Nikolai Nolan (the man behind the bloggie magic,) I asked him if he was aware of this article being printed, he was very unaware of it and said the reason behind some of the things she was saying was because he does what people ask for.

I can certainly agree with Leslie and wonder why there are a few blogs in one category that should be in another. Or even why some of the categories exist at all. Being a finalist this year in the Bloggies I also asked Mr. Nolan if he plans on changing the website at all. He said no, he liked the design. For something as big as the Bloggies I would just assume they would look a bit more high profiled. Make it a little more snazzy so people actually enjoy being on the page while they take the time out of their day to vote!

I sent Mr. Nolan an email the first day nominees were posted and asked about the error message voters were recieving. I had friends that were trying to vote for me but they were getting a message that was preventing them from voting.

Mr. Nolan replied with:

I’m waiting for a response from my Web host right now, because I don’t
know either. Last year it was bandwidth issues, but I upgraded last
month to avoid that happening again. Maybe the Weblog Awards are even
more popular than I thought. :\ Keep checking back, it should be fixed
soon.

Well since you know your “little Weblog awards” aren’t so little, maybe you can think about making a more professional site to host them? He was late posting the finalists and had bandwidth issues. The Bloggies are nationally known, treat them as if they are something instead of nothing. The idea of having these awards is to give awards to the BEST of blogs every year, maybe your site should be ONE OF THE BEST out there as well? If you are listening to what people want, then surely this won’t be hard for 2007…right?

This entry was posted by Betsy Markum on Monday, February 20th, 2006 at 1:16 pm and is filed under Bloggies, Weblogs, Inc.. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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