Comments on: Fallout continues over SA Blog Awards controversy

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Is the bloggers bubble bursting in SA? : nicharalambous.com — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:26:41 +0000

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By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » South Africa: Blog Awards Mashup: Blogging Is Dead, Where Art Thou Stormhoek?, Conflict Of Interest, and Elite Bloggers

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:22:44 +0000

[...] youngBlood sees this controversy as an indication of a larger problem within South African blogosphere: Instead what has developed is an extremely small and – I would argue – very closed community, which continues to butter itself up in the hope that this will lead to fame and fortune. Sure, some will no doubt say that these people are visionaries and trendsetters and without them we would have nothing, but it also runs the danger of creating a Mafioso whichâ€¦ [ed - edited due to space constraints] [...]

By: Colin Daniels

Colin Daniels — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:05:24 +0000

Eric – thanks for you comment. I agree with you and also take my hat off to Jon for attempting to get this off the ground. My hope is that with a bit of tweaking and more people involved, it could really become something worthwhile…

For the record, my criticisms are not wholly aimed at the Blog Awards, but at the current online landscape in general.

By: Eric Edelstein

Eric Edelstein — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:40:52 +0000

I wrote the following regarding the blogging awards on my blog:

“The South African Blog Awards (Mike Stopforth mentioned they are around 9 187 in Technorati) have a HUGE commonality between judges and blogs in the final countdown. Yes, blogs canâ€™t be in the finals of a category a judge is judging, but a large number of the finalists blogs are the Judges blogs. Are there so FEW bloggers in SA? Canâ€™t the blog awards find some impartial judges? Common guys, get real? Get some system of voting which is unbiased or get non SA bloggers to judge – hereâ€™s an idea: Get International Bloggers to Judge? It seems like an old boys blog club at the momentâ€¦”

The original posting is at:
http://ericedelstein.wordpress.....seriously/

I have to say however, that Jon is the only one trying to get the awards going. If others think they can do a better job, set up your own blog awards…

So although there are problems with it, I still put my hat off to Jon for being a leader and attempting to get this going.

By: Vincent Maher

Vincent Maher — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:55:45 +0000

whurd