Blimey. Onlineblog has made it to the shortlist for the 2004 Bloggies, thanks to your votes. It was a big surprise - I only found out when idly browsing our referrer stats - so thanks for your vote. It's great to be in a field for best computer/tech weblog that includes four quite exceptional sites that we've got an awful lot of time for - Slashdot, Boing Boing, Gizmodo and Kottke.org. Up against that lot, I'm sure we don't have a chance, but it was a lovely surprise to be in there at all.
Also: I'm delighted to see some familiar faces in the other shortlists. Tom Coates, often a passionate critic of our own Best British blog compo, quite deservedly gets three four nominations from the blog reading community for Plasticbag.org. He battles it out with Guardian contest winners Greenfairy (2002), A Teenager Blogs and London Underground Tube Diary for best British Blog. Tom's also up for lifetime achievement and best lesbian/gay/bissexual/transgendered weblogger (update: good grief - his essay "(Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything.... " is also up for best essay about weblogs too).
Two of the Guardian winners battle it out for best topical weblog - the excellent Belle De Jour is up against the entertaining London Underground Tube Diary. And Online's man in Florence, Ben Hammersley, is up for best European weblog. Well done all.
