A young gay man's blog is among the finalists in this year's Web Awards, and has been rated highly in the Herald. New Plymouth-based Tyler Ryan's blog was described as an "incredibly personal and candid blog about a young gay guy figuring his life out. There are some great bits, like his prickly encounter with his boyfriend's homophobic father. It reads like a proper journal without being sanitised for public consumption" by one-time American Webby Award nominee Lisa Galarneau. "I think bloggers are now essentially editors," Galarneau says. "Not so much around a field, but around a perspective. They act like a filter, trawling through the web, collecting and linking information, and putting it into some kind of context." It was another gay man's blog that attracted wide attention during the Iraq war, and grew public awareness of the blogging phenomenon. The daily behind-the-lines observations of Baghdad blogger Raed became compulsive reading around the world.
Credit: GayNZ.com News Staff
First published: Saturday, 13th November 2004 - 12:00pm