December 18, 2003

Britblog awards

The Guardian has announced the winners of its British blog awards for 2003.

The winner in the best written category was Belle de Jour, the diary of a London call girl.
As Bruce Sterling, one of the judges said: "Archly transgressive, anonymous hooker is definitely manipulating the blog medium, word by word, sentence by sentence far more effectively than any of her competitors. It's not merely the titillating striptease aspects that are working for her, but her willingness to use this new form of vanity publishing to throw open a great big global window on activities previously considered unmentionable ... She is in a league by herself as a blogger."
Indeed she is.