Some blogs that deserve nomination…

So, as mentioned yesterday, the nominations for the Irish Blog Awards close tomorrow.  And since I only posted very briefly about it yesterday, I figured I could get two days of posting out of the topic!

Irish Blog Awards logo

So, while I’m sitting waiting on people I was due in a meeting with 35 minutes ago (who says I’m not passive-aggressive!), I figured I’d give a few mentions to bloggers that I really, really hope get a mention when the Blog Awards come around.

First and foremost was my nominee for newbie of the year: This Is What I Do.  Darragh, though I have only very fleetingly met him in real life, genuinely amuses, interests and challenges me on a daily basis through his blog and through twitter.  I love his blog, though, to my eternal shame, I’m not sure I have even left him a single comment over the last nine months.

Secondly is the blogger who got worldwide recognition through being published on the Huffington Post this year – the ever kind and fabulous Maman Poulet.

RedMum, who single-handedly launched a campaign that, at the time of writing, has 12,225 members campaigning for the HPV vaccine to be reinstated.

Rick O’Shea, who has bloggers all over the place defending his right to let the public waffle at him through all sorts of media, about any topic of his choosing.  Rightly so, might I add.

Maybe next year will be better for them, but I was delighted to welcome Keith and Niamh to the blogosphere this year – two really close friends of mine in real life.

John Williams has been a revelation to my twitter life – the best spammer I’ve ever encountered!  His photoblog is obviously the one that will be right up there, though his words may make an appearance next year.

Another man being greedy with two blogs is Daithi.  Again, he has one well-established blog in the legal-ish Lex Ferenda (which got more than one nod from me, as it happens), but his second, Rhymes with Porridge will be up there in 2010.

I should write more, and I’m missing many.  But I’m tired….