{"id":2107,"date":"2007-05-15T21:29:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T02:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2007-05-15T21:29:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T02:29:27","slug":"blooker-prizes-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/blooker-prizes-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooker Prizes Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We picked <a href=\"http:\/\/lulublookerprize.typepad.com\/\">the Blooker Prize winners earlier and they were just announced<\/a>. The winners are: In Comics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momscancer.com\/\">Mom&#8217;s Cancer<\/a> by Brian Fies. In Fiction, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andrewlos\/sets\/72057594058095417\/\">Doorbells of Florence<\/a> by Andrew Losowsky. In Non-fiction, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbftw.blogspot.com\/\">My War<\/a> by Colby Buzzell. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/6653781.stm\">The BBC reports the Prize here with quotes from Nick Cohen, Arianna Huffington and myself.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Cohen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/story\/0,,2073619,00.html\">writes about his Blooker judging experience here at Guardian Unlimited.<\/a> And he gets a bit snotty. Nick, Bridget Jones is a steal from Tales of the City mixed with Jane Austen fercrissake. Not to say that BreakUpBabe is either. And you passed completely on PostSecret and Doorbells.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,2079793,00.html\"><br \/>\nOther Brits babble on about being bloggers and Blookers in response to Zoe Margolis&#8217; Guardian piece here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colby Buzzell is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/15\/arts\/15arts.html\">quoted in the New York Times about his blogging, his blook and his winning the Blooker here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=\"><br \/>\nOver 150 articles on the Blooker and Buzzell&#8217;s winning of it found on Google today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We picked the Blooker Prize winners earlier and they were just announced. The winners are: In Comics, Mom&#8217;s Cancer by Brian Fies. In Fiction, Doorbells of Florence by Andrew Losowsky. In Non-fiction, My War by Colby Buzzell. The BBC reports the Prize here with quotes from Nick Cohen, Arianna Huffington and myself. Nick Cohen writes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}