aWalrus's Journal: /me won Bloggie! w00t!

Soo... Bloggies took place this morning. Apparently Cory Doctorow won lots of shit, is into Wackypacks and, if the IRC discussion is to be trusted, sniffs other people's Bicycle seats (but he says it's all innocent and stuff).

We all had a great time. My connection was crap so I kept playing nickname ping pong as the server reassigned me "Overcaffeinated" with extra "_'s" at the end. Word has it that the conversation was being projected on a wall at the SXSW hall, which got us outcasts all riled up (I shouted "titties!").

Everyone who's everyone was there. Everyone who's no one was there. No one who's everyone was there. There was Kitta, Scrivs, Cory, Tom Coates (who took the best essay thing and apparently is rooting for "poof blog of the year" next time) and lots of other incredibly cool people (someone said they saw Dave Shea somewhere, which sent me bursting into fits of fanboyishness).

A merry time was had by all. I won the "Best Latin American blog" thing, which was really cool, and I hope I can make it to SXSW next year. Reputable sources assure me that it is teh shiznit.

Congratulations!!!

[EnlightenmentFan]

sxsw is indeed awesome--and keep watching Nikolai Nolan's blog where the music video should appear next week, he says. My little company (feedster.com) was up for Best Web Application for Weblogs against Blogger, MovableType, and TypePad--Movable Type won but it was great that we got nominated. For some reason, I couldn't log into the irc from the award ceremony--but the log was up on a screen at the front of the room, so you were all virtually present.

Re:Congratulations!!!

[aWalrus]

Wow! you were there! Wish I could have been too. We could've had a beer or something. That's a shame about the Weblog App thing, but the competition was really tough on that category.

So the people there could see the IRC chat? We were incredibly dorky, from not being there. Scrivs started mooning Texas and Tom Coates was inciting queer fights when Ernie won the Gay Bloggie thing. It was a lot of fun. Did the people in there catch all the silliness?