Paul Jacobson

I just wanted to publish a quick post about the Blog Awards this evening. I had a great time and I enjoy each event more and more. There are some awesome people in this community and it is the highlight of my month getting to spend some time with people like Jonathan, Vincent, Matthew, Mike, Victoire, Aquila, Angus and many more.

There are so many cool ideas going around that I really see blogging explode here in South Africa very soon. I’ll probably publish the list of winners (all were great blogs/podcasts and we could do far worse than be represented by them in this showcase of local blogging and podcasting talent!) as soon as the list is published. Aside from Tertia winning “Best Blog” with So Close, I don’t really remember the other winners per category.

There are two posts about the evening you may want to start with:

• my post on chilibean
• Gina’s post about the “Blog Widows”;

I have also published our photos from the evening to Flickr so enjoy.

On that note I am off to bed (it is 11:40pm and way past this old fart’s bedtime).

Update: Rich…! published the video that was shot and edited by the fabulous Leechi last night and it shows you all the winners from the awards! Excellent job on the video Leechi!

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We just got home from the 2007 SA Blog Awards held at Cool Runnings in Fourways. We had a great time and each of the winners deserve a hearty congratulations. Rich…! and his Missing Links were there with their gear and helped Jonathan Cherry, the Awards’ organiser, make the event a thoroughly enjoyable event.

Tertia Albertyn won the overall award for Best SA Blog and I agree that her blog is a fantastic example of the talent in our corner of the globe. Well done, my friend!

As some of us married types were leaving we got to see a video which had been put together from footage shot earlier that evening (these Missing Link people are amazing!) which you can expect to see on the Web very soon which is below. All in all we had a great time chatting, playing foosball (I even got to play) and celebrating all of us!

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I just drove out to Fourways from Melrose Arch to collect some stuff we need for a podcast and it took me 2 hours to get there and back because every frikkin’ road was congested like it was 8am! How do people actually get anything done if they have to commute or drive around??!!!

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• LexBlog Blog : Blogs make it easier than ever to leave large law firms
  Interesting post and I wonder how applicable that is to the local market. When we have more people reading blogs and blogging here then this may prove to be the case in any industry really.
  (tags: blogging law lawfirms nichemarket)
• Identity 2.0
  Interesting Identity 2.0 site!
  (tags: identity2.0 identity digitalidentity)

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TypePad should really make it easier to move away from them and move to them.

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