The winners for the Seventh Annual Weblog Awards, also known as The Bloggies have been announced at the SXSW festival. The awards are the most prestigious in the blogosphere, having been established in 2001.
Leading the awards list was Gawker Media with 4 awards, 2 for Gizmodo: best computers or technology weblog and perhaps rather surprisingly best-designed weblog. The ever popular Lifehacker (which I’ll admit has become one of my favorite reads) picked up the best group weblog award, beating out uber blog Boing Boing and left wing news portal The Huffington Post and Wonkette picked up the best weblog about politics award.
PostSecret, the postcard secrets phenomena was the bigger winner of the night, winning weblog of the year, best topical weblog and best community weblog.
Other notable winners include YouTube, beating WordPress and Flickr to win best web application for weblogs, The Breakfast Blog winning best Australian or New Zealand Weblog and knocking off Lobbylu who has won that award for nearly every single year the Bloggies has been running, GoFugYourself for best entertainment weblog, beating Perez Hilton who picked up best GLBT weblog.
Slashdot picked up the lifetime achievement award, which itself is due to cause considerable debate at Slashdot given many Slashdot users refuse to accept the site in indeed a blog.
Disclaimer: I am a previous sponsor of these awards, and although I’m not sure how they did voting this year (previous years it was by selected panel) I also was a voter this year.
Originally posted on March 12, 2007 @ 6:36 pm
“2 for Gizmodo: best computers or technology weblog and perhaps rather surprisingly best-designed weblog.”
Quite surprisingly. All Gawker blogs seem to use the same template, and I’d think Lifehacker would take the cake in comparison. Honestly, I’m surprised that Chris Pearson’s blog didn’t win that category.
I read all of these blogs, but I think that Gizmodo won for design because it is a more popular blog than its contenders, not because it’s actually better designed.
On a separate note, the fluid layout on the Weblog winners announcement page is a real pain to read at 1920×1200 resolution. I actually had to move my head to the left and then to the right to see who won for each category. Poor design choice. :P
Tamar, couldn’t agree more, hence I’d noted surprisingly. Personally I cant stand the template and there was far better choices available to voters.
Gizmodo for best design? Man the Bloggies have jumped the shark, Gizmodo’s design looks like ass.
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