Alexia Golez

Dear Irish Blog Awards,

Every year around this time, I have this problem. It’s a debillitating condition. Like that gassy belly wind one gets from fine German wheatbeer or the red-face, chokey cough with tears a girl gets in polite company. Sometimes embarrassing, always compulsive.

It’s the compulsion to be honest. To be meta about where are about where blogging is in Ireland. To navel gaze the navel gazers.

You see, Irish Blog Awards, the national shitfit existed *before* The Frontline. Online, we had the shitstirring post. This year, Twenty held one when he hosted Una’s post. Agree with Una’s thesis or not, the comments were punches left and right sometimes more about past transgressions rather than the topic at hand. There are myriad other posts that have offered us the same opportunity. The opportunity to pile-drive before meeting (or more particularly, missing in transit about the function room) other bloggers that we spike anonymously off. I’m as guilty as the next girl at times.

In some ways, though, the reason I write these posts is that I hope in some naïve way, they’ll help burn off the bullshit and create some kind of forum for people to realise their similarities instead of giving people the chance to pinpoint places to sharpshoot their victims. Online sharpshooting followed by that strict Irish traditional of social niceties and the bitchy convo later. Le sigh.

So, this year because I know we’re still teens in heat, I’ll give the shit-stirring post a miss.

Yours,
Alexia

Just a few hours left to nominate your favourite blogs for this year’s Irish Blog Awards! Do take a few minutes to nominate your guilty reads.

Quick reminder – the Dublin Tweasure hunt is happening tomorrow. It starts at the Spire at 2pm in Dublin city centre.

To participate you need a phone with Internet access and a camera and a Twitter account. Form a team with some mates and elect a captain to communicate back to the @dublintweasure account. The rest is up to you.

Follow the @dublintweasure account for all the details. The Twitter hashtag is #tweasurehunt. Have fun!

Blogging dead, wha? Wait for the squeeze of nominations through the Irish Blog Awards letterbox! Get nominating your favourite blogs for this year’s awards.

So remember that kerfuffle on the death of blogging over at Twenty’s gaff? Jim Carroll has a great post today on his thoughts about it.

Can we trumpet a little more about peercasting too? It’s something we forget or take for granted when we write. I believe Una either missed or discarded this in original post.

Just applied a new theme – Rockstar from Woo Themes – it’s free and has a nice theme config page. Definitely considering popping for their club now.

And the buhbye blog thing – blogs are oh-so-confining, if I could I’d rename this place – a repository of swirled ideas. Enough navel-meta bull, back to sketching out theorems using pixels.