Blog awards

The shortlists are up. I have been nominated in the best news/current affairs blog category. Cheers to the person who nominated me :).

I guess I should do some link whoring or something to all the other nominees. I am a regular reader of many, so do check them out:

Best Blog Sponsored by PutPlace

• Skin Flicks
• Fustar
• Slugger O’Toole
• House is a Feeling
• Gingerpixel
• Grannymar
• Irish Flirty Something
• On The Record
• Twenty Major
• Ellen McDermott
• Arseblog
• Red Mum
• Ice Cream Ireland
• Maman Poulet
• The Cedar Lounge Revolution
• Primal Sneeze
• Eat Drink Live
• Bock The Robber
• Irish Taxi
• Bookmark
• Present Tense
• Fatmammycat.com
• The Limerick Blogger
• Beaut.ie
• The Waiting Game
• Irish Sally Garden
• Style Treaty

Best Photo Blog Sponsored by Pix.ie

• Red Mum
• Skyroad
• Caitriona
• I Take Photees
• Phil O’Kane photos
• Rymus
• Lathiko
• North Atlantic Skyline
• In Photos
• Darren Greene Photography
• Ross Costigan Photography
• Gingerpixel
• Captures Light
• Thomas Mceldowney
• Donal O’Caoimh
• Mcawilliams
• Kind I Like
• Winds anad Breezes
• My Left Ventricle
• Krystian Kozerawski Photoblog
• Pygment

Best Arts and Culture Blog Sponsored by Poetry Ireland

• Bookmark
• Scamp
• Asylum
• The Sigla Blog
• Eddie Mullan’s No Clarity
• Tuppenceworth.ie
• Dear Dead Beat
• Dermod Moore
• The New(ish) Journalism
• American Hell
• Stunned

Best Political Blog Sponsored by Digital Revolutionaries

• Slugger O’Toole
• The Cedar Lounge Revolution
• Skin Flicks
• AtlanticBlog
• Eric Byrne
• Irish Election
• Elblogador.com
• Richard Delevan
• Dublin Opinion
• Damien Blake
• Organized Rage
• Notes on the Front
• Balrog

Best Group Blog Sponsored by Salesjobs.ie

• The Dublin Community Blog
• ShiteDrivers.com
• Beaut.ie
• For Nine Pounds
• Style Treaty
• Analogue Magazine
• Web 2.0 Ireland
• Life Without Toast
• Couango and Spaves
• Soundtracks For Them

Best Personal Blog Sponsored by Microsoft Ireland’s Developer and Platform Group

• Irish Flirty Something
• Grannymar
• The Biopsy report
• Conortje
• Lozenge
• Fatmammycat.com
• The Waiting Game
• Prototype of a Person
• The Swearing Lady
• Hangar Queen
• Lebanon an Irish Experience
• Head Rambles
• That Friday Feeling
• Avoiding Life

Best Use of Irish Language in a Blog Sponsored by Edgecast Media

• Blag Shomhairle
• The Spanish Exposition
• Primal Sneeze
• Íomhá an lae
• Seo Panu ag labhairt
• An Cainteoir Dóchais
• A month without alcohol
• Gomaith
• Blag Ghael gan Náire
• Ceithearnacoille

Best Technology Blog Sponsored by Bitbuzz

• Ken McGuire
• Tom Raftery’s Social Media
• Donncha O’Caoimh
• Alexia Golez
• Michele Neylon’s Pensieri
• Michelle Gallen
• Dave Northey
• Inside View from Ireland
• Robin Blandford’s ByteSurgery
• James Corbett
• Chris Horn

Best Designed Blog Sponsored by BB Gardens

• Good On Paper
• Sabrina Dent
• Annie Rhiannon
• Clamnuts Rants
• Irish KC
• Ireland Logue
• The Menace
• David Behan
• magooo

Best Sports and Recreation Blog Sponsored by Boards.ie

• Tom’s Sporting Almanac
• Running in Cork
• Green and Red
• Arseblog
• Athenry Athletic Club
• Newmarket GAA
• Team Geared Up Blog
• Okey Dokey Football
• Football Corner
• Bionic Bohs
• Red in Dublin

Best News/Current Affairs Blog

• The Limerick Blogger
• That’s Ireland
• Towleroad
• Alan in Belfast
• Splintered Sunrise
• Maman Poulet
• Gavin’s Blog
• Ceithearnacoille
• Mozlink

Best Specialist Blog Sponsored by iQ Content

• The Voyage
• Green Ink
• The Usual Suspect
• Eoin Purcell’s Blog
• Piaras Kelly PR
• Wood Pellet Ireland
• Cearta
• Crime Always Pays
• Paddy Anglican
• Oliver Moore
• Lex Ferenda
• Public Enquiry
• Red Cardinal

Best Newcomer Sponsored by Edelman Dublin

• K8 the GR8
• Blog the Bog
• Irish Taxi
• 73man
• nickhereandnow
• Midget Wrangler
• A Pint of Unionist Lite
• Coffee Helps
• The Friendly Farmer
• John Braine
• All Parts Included
• One for the road

Best Business Blog Sponsored by FirstPartners

• Brightspark Consulting
• Bubble Brothers
• Pat Phelan
• Keith Bohanna
• Ice Cream Ireland
• BH Consulting Blog
• The Blacknight Blog
• O’Conall Street
• McGarr Solicitors
• Interactions
• Worldwide Cycles
• Fortify Your Oasis
• Frank Fullard

Best Music Blog Sponsored by DownloadMusic.ie

• nialler9
• Cheebah
• House is a Feeling
• mp3hugger
• KilkennyMusic.com
• The Torture Garden
• Asleep on the Compost Heap
• The Red Scrapbook
• Matt Vinyl
• The Indie Hour
• French Letter
• Off The Rocker
• Stuart Bailie
• I Prefer the Obscure Mix

Best Food and Drink Blog

• Little bird eats…
• Eat Drink Live
• iFoods Blog
• English Mum in Ireland
• The Humble Housewife
• Italian Foodies
• Sour Grapes
• Just add eggs
• Well done fillet
• Val’s Kitchen
• Martin Dwyer

Best Crafts Blog Sponsored by This Is Knit

• Knitting Neels
• Irish Craft Update
• Ellen McDermott
• A Simple Yarn
• Homebug
• Irish Sally Garden
• An Irish Craftworkers Good Life
• Jackies Space
• Design Undercover
• Sandie Shores

Best Popculture Blog Sponsored by Weeno Media

• DZ-015 by Rick O’Shea
• Fustar
• Daddy or Chips?
• UnaRocks
• Dante and the Lobster
• The Chancer
• Frank Fearless Free
• Ego Eccentric
• Why, That’s Delightful!
• Rapture Ponies

Best Blog from a Journalist Sponsored by RedFly Marketing

• Sarah Carey
• Present Tense
• Pricewatch
• Emigration etc
• John Collins
• Nadine O’Regan
• Karlin Lillington
• On The Record
• Kathy Foley
• Community Voice Musings