Every year computer weekly runs the blogger of the year awards, this is split into a number of categories from best use of twitter to best security or best green blogger. There is a quite glitzy award ceremony and quite a lot of kudos to go with the title.

The competition generally take the form of open nominations, which are then whittled down by the organisers to a short list of entries, which go on to a public vote. This year I was lucky enough to be nominated for the best professional male category and made it though the shortlist to the public vote.

The competition for best professional male is always pretty tough, and this includes last years winner and good friend, microsoft’s Steve Clayton (the geek in disguise) and to be honest I don’t think that i am in with much of a chance, but it is really nice to be considered worthy of standing in such distinguished company.

I only stated to blog to learn about the technology behind the different blogs, so that i’d be able to help users decide which was the best blog for them. I didn’t start out with the intention of keeping it up, but i kind of enjoyed the process of writing, and playing with different writing styles on different blogs, and it eventually lead to being asked to be a regular contributor to the column in the local paper which in itself is a pretty good reward. So in fact fact the computer weekly nomination is really just the icing on the cake, all be it that nice glittery icing that i’m so fond of.

Every year computer weekly runs the blogger of the year awards, this is split into a number of categories from best use of twitter to best security or best green blogger. There is a quite glitzy award ceremony and quite a lot of kudos to go with the title.