Blog Awards

The Irish Blog Awards 2008 took place in the Alexander Hotel on the first of March.

Winners included:

* Best Popculture Blog: DZ-105 by Rick O Shea

*Best Blog from a Journalist: Present Tense by Shane Hegarty

*Best Political Blog: Irish Election

*Best Sport Blog:Arseblog

I decided to take a look at some of the winning blogs to see what they offered.

Shane Hegarty’s blog has a wide range of articles ranging from a piece about Britney Spears(‘Britney Hunting’) to Samantha Power’s interview on RTE Radio 1(When does off-the-record not mean off-the-record). Some of these pieces are quite interesting but there does seem to be a lot of filler material including pointless blogs about Lost with a video of its creator JJ Abrams talking about why he loves mystery, how much easier it is now to throw someone into an airplane jet engine and why the best scene in Jaws doesn’t have a shark in it!

I also took at the sports blog ‘ Arseblog’. Being a huge football fan I found this site to be very good and i gleefully read through some of the most recent posts. This is a very interesting blog for the average football fan.