{"id":318,"date":"2005-02-09T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T06:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=318"},"modified":"2005-02-09T08:17:01","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T06:17:01","slug":"sa-blog-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"SA Blog awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nominations are now open for the first SA Blog awards. I don&#8217;t know much about the organisers, besides an anonymous email there&#8217;re no contact details on <a href=\"http:\/\/sablogawards.typepad.com\/\">their site<\/a> (breaking rule 1 of website transparency), but it&#8217;s a good initiative nevertheless. My main interest will be in finding some more active local blogs &#8211; the lists out there are full of ancient, inactive blogs, and I soon get bored looking at &#8216;great&#8217; sites with a most recent post of June 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll put together a list of active local blogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/sablogawards.typepad.com\/2005_south_african_blog_a\/2005\/01\/welcome_to_the_.html#c3679303\">the comments<\/a> on the SA Blog awards site point to some local lists in various states of disrepair that&#8217;ll be a good starting point &#8211; unless someone beats me to it there&#8217;s no harm in adding another!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominations are now open for the first SA Blog awards. I don&#8217;t know much about the organisers, besides an anonymous email there&#8217;re no contact details on their site (breaking rule 1 of website transparency), but it&#8217;s a good initiative nevertheless. My main interest will be in finding some more active local blogs &#8211; the lists&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=318\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SA Blog awards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}