Who has the best Jewish and Israeli blogs?
Derek Fattal, who's back as director of Internet services for the
Jerusalem Post,
says his website has decided to partner with a blogger who first
conceived of the idea of holding a contest to answer that question and
co-host the
2005 Jewish & Israeli Blog Awards.
Voting for the contest begins next week, and as you can see from
this page, there's already an active community going. The list of entrants is long.
Says
Fattal, "We have been very careful to respect the spirit of the blog
community and to avoid any sense of muscling in on what is largely a
grass-roots inspired event." The
Post is handling the online voting side of the contest, and of course marketing and promoting it online and in print.
That's an interesting approach to getting local bloggers infused into a newspaper brand. The
Post
website also has set up its own
blogs section, "which still needs a lot
of further development as it begins to gain audience," he says.
