Friday, January 6, 2006

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.
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