Asian Blog Awards
August 31, 2006
Hosted this year by AsiaPundit, the Asian Blog Awards today opened voting for several major categories. Although the awards do not include a category specifically for Cambodia, they do give a prize for Best Mekong Region Blog, which encompasses our humble little country.
In a coup of no small proportions, two of the category’s four finalists are native Khmer speakers: ThaRum and Wanna. Counting Gordon Sharpless at the Tales of Asia Blog, Cambodia takes three out of the four spots for category finalists.
The four finalist for the Best Mekong Region Blog are:
Mad props to Gordon, ThaRum and Wanna.
In related news, the Asian Blog Awards home page also gives readers a quick update on the previous round of voting, which included Cambodia’s own Phnomenon as a finalist for Best Asian Food Blog. Asian Blog Awards assures us that vote counting will be done shortly and results are expected to be made public next week.
August 31, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Wow… congratulations to my blog(Wanna’s Diary)! But it’s already been moved to http://blog.icambo.com/
August 31, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Congrats, Wanna, Gordon, Tharum! Maybe next year there can be a ‘local’ and ‘foreign’ category.
August 31, 2006 at 6:17 pm
One of two major ISPs in Vietnam banned all weblogs under Blog*spot. So moving to my own domain (blog.icambo.com) is another choice.
To Peter: it’d much better if Khmer440 allows everyone to comment without registration.
August 31, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Yes congrats to all noiminees. All worthy.
But what about the other best Asian blog and photoblog awards? Pleae refer to this posting on my blog: http://mythicaldude.typepad.com/mythicaldude/2006/08/best_asian_phot.html
A lot of people don’t know that I won last years best non-blog awatd for some of the private thoughts I had. Or did I just imagine that?
August 31, 2006 at 7:53 pm
BIG congratulation to the all the winners! It’s what you deserve for the quality of your work!
September 9, 2006 at 3:15 pm
[...] It was not long after the Khmer New Year in 2004 I began to have my own digital journal. The more you experiement with a thing, the more you learn about it. Just days ahead of the September 11, I received news from several online sources that my journal has been recently nominated by AsiaPundit, a meta weblog about Asia. Mine was listed in the Best of Mekong Blog, one of categories of the Asia Blog Awards. The final round will take place next year. Let’s wait and see. Will there be prize? Well, extra traffic to the site and the appreciation from peers were what they said to offer. [...]