At last - we're good to go with the 2007 South African blog awards final voting.
The polls are now officially open, and will be until Friday 16 March at noon.
Even though the system was automated this time round, due to the massive number of public nominations, it still took some old-fashioned elbow grease to produce the finalists in each category. So many thanks to the blogger panel for their late night efforts.
The panel physically reviewed every nomination and filtered the entries down by; considering the number of nominations a particular blog received, whether the blog was appropriately categorised, whether the blog was in fact active during 2006, the frequency of posting, post quality and the level of interaction the site enjoys from its readers.
In some instances, there were not enough sites which met the criteria to fill all ten places within a category. In which case fewer than ten blogs made it through to the finals.
In addition to the official voting - there's also a sideline competition on the go for the best 2007 blog awards logo. Go make your feeling felt here.
Offers for prize sponsorship have been strong this year, up for grabs in the 'Weblog of the year' category - a brand new Apple MacBook Pro, kindly offered by the guys at Storm.co.za
But enough blurb - see and vote for your favourite South African blogs for 2007 - go check the site.
You're a machine, shot for organising it all, muchos appreciation!
Posted by: Dave | March 06, 2007 at 07:14 PM
You're a machine, shot for organising it all, muchos appreciation!
Posted by: Dave | March 06, 2007 at 07:15 PM
First of all, I'm really puzzled trying to understand what Dave has said above.
I know that Dave is a deep and clever guy, so I will wait tlle he is ready to explain.
I want to talk about the Awards.
First, I will applaud all of the winners.
I can see that we have a lot of great bloggers.
Some of these happen to be techy and funny and musical and so on.
Most award ceremonies enable a market to find the stars in the field in which they want to buy.
The SA Blog Awards (I feel) should big and open to everybody.
So who is an expert on everything? Nobody.
You should open the field to a tech Award, and a humour award, etc (or nominations, from peers) and then you have finalists.
If you read what some of the voters have said about how they cast their votes...
Posted by: graham knox | March 09, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Why is it that www.sablogawards.com & www.2007.sablogawards.com
are dead urls?
Posted by: Tim | March 15, 2007 at 03:24 PM