29 thoughts on “Announcing The First European Weblog Awards”

1. Except they are not the first European weblog awards…

2. That’s interesting. What are the first?

   If not the first European weblog awards, they are still the The First European Weblog Awards.

3. Why not just use this site’s blogroll as nominees? Or supplement this by asking for suggestions that aren’t on the list but deserve consideration?

   If that’s too unwieldy, perhaps AFoE contributors could pick their favorites..

4. Well, for one thing we’d like to discover new blogs, as I said. We could have more categories in the competition than in the nominating phase.

5. There is a great French blog Le journal de Momo

   Very funny, very topical, very sociable.

   http://www.lejournaldemomo.com

6. 404 Brain not Found

   http://www.404brain.net

7. Beerli, you need to pick a category and vote in the corresponding post, for example the Best French Blog category.

8. I would like to nominate my blog for the efforts of my fellow contributors to the blog. (www.andrewiandodge.com) for UK blog and Fainting in Coyles (http://terrancecoyle.blogspot.com/) for European blog.

9. Hi there, I would like to add my (french) blog to the relevant category (wich would, I assume, be “french blogs”).

   http://www.atabekian.com

   Kindly yours,

   Christophe Atabekian

10. where’s the italian section?

11. Cabalamat Journal

12. I’d love to nominate a couple of expat blogs… but I’m not sure they qualify anywhere.

    For example, The Sideshow and Axis of AEvil, which are written by Americans living in the UK and Finland, respectively.

    Not to mention Sadly, No!, Pedantry, et al.

    I think there needs to be a “Best Expat Blog” category.

13. I’ve actually thought about it, but then I probably thought of forty different categories, and we can’t have that. So, we’ll think about it.

    I need to update the blogroll with your new url.

14. I second the call for a best expat blog category. It is very refreshing to read about a “foreigner’s” perspective on your own country. Expats are bridges between cultures. Also, it would be a category largely untapped by many of the already existing awards.

    If you consider such a category, I’d nominate Silt (http://www.silt3.com/) and Foreign Notes (http://foreignnotes.blogspot.com/).

    O, and Europhobia (http://europhobia.blogspot.com/) for best European blog.

15. The anal retentive in me is greatly bothered by people nominating blogs in this post.

16. By Popular Request

17. bah

18. bah opet

19. where’s the italian section (reprise)?

20. The Glory of Carniola

    which can be found on: http://www.carniola.org

21. I’d really like to see a category for Eastern European blogs. I don’t think there are enough (English language) blogs for many of these countries to have their own individual category, but there are plenty of high quality blogs out there covering the region or parts of it.

    If you do add this category, I’d like to nominate a few weblogs right off the bat:

    The Russian Dilettante
    Blogo Slovo
    All About Latvia
    Glory of Carniola
    Scraps of Moscow
    Baltic Blog
    And, of course, I’d try to find space for my own blog – Siberian Light

    That’s just a few off the top of my head, and perhaps a little heavy on the Former Soviet Union, but it’d be a great start.

22. Hmm, I’m a bit of a techno-incompetent. How do I put hyperlinks in the comments at AFoE?

23. Actually, now I’ve finally (it’s early AM) put my brain in gear – why not have categories as they are in your blogroll?

    Western Europe
    Central Europe
    Eastern Europe
    SouthEast Europe

    OK, enough. I’m going to work now.

24. How about we have a Best Looking Blog catagory? People who have good efficient designs should be encouraged.

25. Isn’t it amazing how many more people react on an appeal (to name good blogs) if a contest is involved!

    I would like to suggest just another category: blogging politicians.
    Not to be confused with political bloggers.

    I have a post on my site “The dilemma of the independent blogging politician” that explains the difference between political bloggers and blogging politicians, the need for blogging politicians as well as the reasons why my own blog, although in this category, unfortunately does not qualify for a high rating there: Link to that specific post

    PS: although I know that my own English is not very good, the idea of comparing blogs in all European languages seems impossible to me. How many members of the jury have sufficient knowledge of the Slovenian language? Or Polish. Or French even. I’m afraid we should confine ourselves to blogs (mainly) in English.

26. Hi Everybody,

    There is a great Hungarian (English language) blog all about the Budapest social scene and goings-on that I would like to nominate. Pestiside.hu is alternately darkly comedic, sardonic, insightful and sometimes even hysterically funny. It takes the piss out of all elements in Hungarian political spectrum as well as other absurb aspects of Hungarian life. (Believe you me, there is a plethora of absurdity in everyday Hungarian life.) If you have lived/live anywhere in Central-Eastern Europe, you can appreciate Pestiside.hu.

    Their take on quasi-oligarch Elek Straub was fuckin’ priceless!

    Laters,

    AP

27. near near future

    http://we-make-money-not-art.com

28. Hmmm.. I’d love to nominate the Swedish styleguide for men, which looks yummy, is funny and is European. But it doesn’t seem to fit in any category. (is style==culture? Naaah.)

    http://manolo.se/

29. I am very inexperienced in blogs and I do not dare to vote. But your blog has been very useful and interesting to me. Thanks.