5th Annual Bloggy Awards

Now in their fifth year of existence, Bloggies - the Oscars of the blogosphere - were awarded yesterday to winners from 30 categories at the South By SouthWest Interactive Festival in Texas.

Among those recognized were Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things, walking away with the overall blog prize, and Dooce, the blog of designer Heather Armstrong, the first person ever to be fired for blogging about her professional work, for the best-written blog.