2005 Australian Blog Awards – Nominations

It’s been almost a year since the inaugural Australian Blog Awards were held, and based on last years experience, I’m starting the nominations phase earlier this time.

So, I’m pleased to announce that nominations for the 2005 Australian Blog Awards are open.

The categories this year are:

  • Best Overall Australian Blog

  • Best Post on an Australian Blog

Location Categories

For a blog to be eligable for one of the location based awards, the blog’s main contributor(s) must reside in that state, territory or be overseas. A blog cannot be nominated for more than one of these blogs. Blogs with contributions coming equaly from more than one location will have to nominate which category they wish to contest.

  • Best NSW Blog
  • Best Victorian Blog
  • Best Tasmanian Blog
  • Best Queensland Blog
  • Best West Australian Blog
  • Best South Australian Blog
  • Best Northern Territory Blog
  • Best Australian Capital Territory Blog
  • Best Overseas Australian Blog

Style Categories

  • Best Humourous Australian Blog
  • Best Designed Australian Blog
  • Best Australian Personal Blog
  • Best Australian Political Blog
  • Best Australian Photo Blog
  • Best Australian Tech Blog
  • Best New Australian Blog
  • Best Australian Collaborative Blog

Nominations can be made by leaving a comment on this post, and they will accepted until the first week of January 2005 (exact date to be announced). Once the nominations have been compiled they’ll be announced, the voting phase will begin and votes will be accepted up until ABOUT the 25th of January 2005. Once again, the announced of the winners will be SCHEDULED to coincide with Australia Day i.e. 26th of January. However, ALL dates quoted are subject to change depending on work load… so don’t be surprised if there’s slippage in the schedule.

The voting system will once again be the much loved optional preferential voting system… but before you take the easy way out and take advantage of the “optional” aspect of the system, please keep in mind that preferences were vital in several categories last time.

Finally, I ask that when you’re making your nominations

  1. you provide the sites name
  2. you provide the sites address
  3. you limit your nominations to ONE per category (that way each nominations should get at least one vote)

As I don’t want to have to try to decipher the nominations. Also, if you notice that a site you considered nominating has already been nominated in a category, feel free to NOT nominate it again 🙂

Okay. Time to get nominating… and spread the word about the 2005 Australian Blog Awards, and spread it early.

[Update 15/12/04 23:25 – “Best Australian Collaborative Blog” category added]
[Update 16/12/04 23:55 – “Best Post on an Australian Blog” category added… suggested by Tim Dunlop of The Road To Surfdom fame. Also deleted to request that people not nominate sites already nominated, as doing so may have encouraged them to nominate another blog in its place, thereby potentially increasing the number of blogs that will not get a single first round vote 🙁 ]
[Update 01/01/2005 23:32 – Nominations will close on the 3rd of January. Lists of the nominations will be posted and the voting phase of the 2005 Australian Blog Awards will begin on the 4th of January, 2005, and remain open until the 25th of January. Winners will be announced on the 26th of January, 2005.]
[Update 03/01/2005 23:59 – Nominations are now closed!!!]

Related Links:
2004 Australian Blog Awards Nominations
2004 Australian Blog Awards Winners

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224 Comments

  8. Best West Australian Blog : A yobbo’s veiw
    http://www.gravett.org/yobbo/

    Best Australian Capital Territory Blog : Whacking Day
    http://www.whackingday.com/

    Best Overseas Australian Blog : Right-Thinking
    http://www.right-thinking.com/

    Best Australian Political Blog : The Currency lad
    http://thecurrencylad.blogspot.com/

    Best New Australian Blog : The House of wheels
    http://wheels128.blogspot.com/

    Best Designed Australian Blog : The Apllicant
    http://www.gravett.org/theapplicant/

    Best Australian Personal Blog : Random Prose
    http://randomprose.journalspace.com/

    Best Australian Collaborative Blog : Mangled Thoughts
    http://mangledthoughts.com/

  12. Best Overall Australian Blog – Hot Water (http://hotwater.blogspot.com)

    Best NSW Blog – Virulent Memes

    Best Victorian Blog – The Spin Starts Here

    Best Queensland Blog – Hot Water

    Best West Australian Blog – Hot Water (given that she’s only just moved east)

    Best Australian Capital Territory Blog – Teej Mahal (http://www.teejmahal.com)

    Best Overseas Australian Blog – What’s New Pussycat

    Best Humourous Australian Blog – Hot Water

    Best Designed Australian Blog – Loobylu

    Best Australian Personal Blog – What’s New Pussycat

    Best Australian Collaborative Blog – The Spin Starts Here

  14. Best NSW Blog:
    Man of lettuce

    Best Victorian Blog
    Slatts

    Best West Australian Blog
    Yobbo

    Best Australian Capital Territory Blog
    Whacking Day

    Best Australian Personal Blog
    Man of Lettuce

    Best Australian Political Blog
    Tim Blair

  15. * Best NSW Blog
    Culture Strain
    http://culturestrain.blogspot.com

    * Best Victorian Blog
    The Supermercado Project
    http://www.supermercado.tv

    * Best Queensland Blog
    Dawei’s House of Debauchery and Beeyotching
    http://houseofdebaucheryandbeeyotching.blogspot.com

    * Best West Australian Blog
    A Yobbo’s View
    http://www.gravett.org/yobbo

    * Best Australian Capital Territory Blog
    The Riotact
    http://www.the-riotact.com

    * Best Overseas Australian Blog
    What’s New Pussycat/
    http://www.shauny.org/pussycat

    * Best Humourous Australian Blog
    Dawei’s House of Debauchery and Beeyotching
    http://houseofdebaucheryandbeeyotching.blogspot.com

    * Best Australian Personal Blog
    The Teejmahal
    http://www.teejmahal.com

    * Best Australian Political Blog
    John Howard, PM.
    http://johnhoward.blogspot.com

  23. Best personal blog – Jazzy Hands Journal. Can’t get more personal than that! She’s personal, personable, willing and able, and willing for a shilling!

    Hooray for Kathryn!

  25. Best Overall Australian Blog Hot Buttered Death
    Best NSW Blog Hot Buttered Death
    Best Victorian Blog Melbourne Lefty
    Best Queensland Blog John Quiggin
    Best West Australian Blog Kick and Scream
    Best South Australian Blog Dock of the Bay
    Best Overseas Australian Blog The Road To Surfdom
    Best Humourous Australian Blog Ausculture
    Best Designed Australian Blog Virulent Memes
    Best Australian Personal Blog Hot Buttered Death
    Best Australian Collaborative Blog

  33. Best NSW Blog – Man of Lettuce

    Best Victorian Blog – The Supermercado Project

    Best Tasmanian Blog – Leatherwood Online’s reviews/creative stuff, or I could just be an arsehole and selfnominate. Yeah.

    Best West Australian Blog – Kick and Scream

    Best South Australian Blog – Watchdog of the Wankers

    Best Humourous Australian Blog – ausculture

    Best Designed Australian Blog – I’m feeling a tossup between Loobylu and I Am Alert

    Best Australian Tech Blog – Exploded Library. Well, he talks about information science.

    Best Australian Collaborative Blog – ausculture

  36. Best overall blog: Will Type For Food.
    Why?
    -Originality (most of all), humour, fearlessness. GUTS.
    Yes, well, without that last one you may as well forget the whole thing.

  41. I also nominate, for best Overseas Australian Blog, Slush:

    http://nerdling.net/slushpile

    Written by a Newcastle science student who produces the zine nerdling (see her website http://nerdling.net for examples.) She’s gone to Antarctica for the summer, to do some scientific research, and her blog is absolutely effing amazing – humorous, closely observed, with a scientific eye (literally) for detail.

    Wasn’t sure which category it should go under, but I guess Best Overseas should do it. It’d be a bloody travesty if she didn’t get in…

  42. ENMORE STATION VOTES

    Joe votes:
    Best Overall Australian Blog:
    Melbourne Lefty
    Best NSW Blog:
    Darpism
    Best Victorian Blog:
    Melbourne Lefty
    Best Tasmanian Blog
    Big Bob
    Best Queensland Blog:
    John Quiggin
    Best West Australian Blog:
    Kick & Scream
    Best South Australian Blog
    Dogfight @ Bankstown
    Best Overseas Australian Blog:
    Road To Surfdom
    Best Humourous Australian Blog:
    There Ain’t No Sanity Clause
    Best Designed Australian Blog:
    The Swanker
    Best Australian Personal Blog:
    Hot Buttered Death
    Best Australian Political Blog:
    Darpism
    Best New Australian Blog:
    Suki Has An Opinion
    Best Australian Collaborative Blog:
    Troppo Armadillo

    Jeff votes:
    Best Overall Australian Blog:
    Darpism
    Best Political Blog:
    Melbourne Lefty
    Best Australian Personal Blog:
    Hot Buttered Death
    Best NSW Blog:
    Darpism
    Best Victorian Blog:
    Melbourne Lefty
    Best Humourous Australian Blog:
    There Ain’t No Sanity Clause
    Best Designed Australian Blog:
    The Swanker
    Best New Australian Blog:
    Suki Has An Opinion

  49. hmm, everyone I’d nominate is above.

    just make sure Chris Shiel’s backpages gets a guernsey for Best Overall and Best Political.,

    As for best post, dunno if this is the done thing or no, but probably the most intersting “post” I’ve done all year were a series of audioblog entries from Washington on the day and night of the US presidential election.

    They start here

    Listen to me melt down live as the results come in :\

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