The Bloggies were announced late on Monday night (UK time), so a belated well done to all those who scooped an award. The big winner on the night was the ever excellent BoingBoing, which won weblog of the year, best group weblog and best American weblog. Now that Cory Doctorow, the main man behind the site, is moving to the UK, does that make him eligible for best British blogger too? :-)
Big British winner was Plasticbagger Tom Coates, who won best essay for his Weblogs and the mass amateurisation of nearly everything. It's an excellent analysis of where weblogs have come from, and where they are now, and is one of a small corpus of pieces that should be required reading for anyone who intends to opine on the issue of weblogs. Tom also picked up best UK/Irish weblogger.
Meanwhile, we're trying hard to be dignified about not winning in the best tech weblog category, but it's no disgrace to lose to Slashdot - a site that's more a way of life than a mere weblog. Well done to them, and all the winners. Boo sucks.
