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title: "2006 Bloggies announced – same old same old"
date: 2006-03-13
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# 2006 Bloggies announced – same old same old

Is it just me, or does the list of winners announced for the [2006 Bloggies](https://web.archive.org/web/20110930084129/http://2006.bloggies.com/) (the blogging oscars) bear a striking resemblance to the last 5-6 years? Slashdot, Boing Boing, Blogger, etc. Where are all the ‘2.0’ sites, like TechCrunch, Scripting News, Digg? Anyway, there was one shining light: Darren Rowse’s [Problogger](https://web.archive.org/web/20110930084129/http://www.problogger.net/) got an award – for Best Web Development Weblog. I’m not sure Darren would consider himself a web dev blogger, but still — congrats Darren!

**Update**: Explaining myself more… I guess my beef is that there are a whole bunch of blogs that have popped up over the last couple of years that weren’t even nominated. When the nominations for 2006 Bloggies came out, I was dismayed to see that same old list of names. I agree that the likes of Slashdot and BoingBoing are quality blogs/sites, but how many times can you give an Oscar to Steven Spielberg over Steven Soderbergh?

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2006_bloggies_a.php))*