by Suw on October 17, 2003
It's again time for British Bloggers to swallow their breakfast and enter The Guardian's British Blog Awards. I didn't enter last year because I wasn't blogging regularly, but now I am I will. Not, you understand, because I have any hope of winning – my chances of getting anywhere are zero – but well, just because. It's like entering the lottery – if you're not in it you can't win it. I would hope, however, that my chances in the British Blog Awards are marginally better than 14 million to 1.
Anyway, the categories are Best Design, Best Specialist, Best Use Of Photography, Best Under 18, and Best Written. I'm really only eligable for the last, and even then, only theoretically. Anyway, I think all British bloggers should enter, just as a show of solidarity. Or something.
by Suw on October 17, 2003
If you're addicted to buying books, as I would be if I had any money, then you really want to bookmark BookBrain. It's like Kelkoo, but for books – they don't sell you anything they just compare prices for you. What makes BookBrain particularly special, though, is that they also compare p&p costs and availability, so you can see in an instant which book seller you're best off buying from.
It's a shame that they don't have a wishlist capability too. I like the concept of a wishlist, but I don't like the idea of having an Amazon one because Amazon are expensive, slow and rubbish at telling you when an order's not actually going to ever be fulfilled. It would be cool, though, to have a wishlist on a site that could recommend the best vendor for each individual book, as well as keep a track of all the books you want. Extend that to CDs and DVDs/videos and I would be in wishlist heaven.
