Blooker Prize Winner Announced
The Blooker also gets a nice round of coverage thanks to the efforts of the folks organizing the PR, one of whom is the contest administrator Jason Adams. Nice work, Jason!
Blooker news from Google [Updating coverage list on 5-15]
Bloggers
are crap, declares Blooker Prize judge
Register, UK -
The Blooker Prize for books which began life as online ramblings
has been won by My War: Killing Time in Iraq, by Colby Buzzell.
...
Popular Web sites now off-limits to troops
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... obscenity-riddled memoir about his year fighting in Iraq,
"My War: Killing Time in Iraq," won the second annual Blooker
Prize for the best book based on ...
Curl up with a good blog
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Yesterday's announcement of this year's winners of the award for
blogs turned into books, the Lulu Blooker prize, would have us
believe that many publishers ...
People: Sheryl Crow, Ewan McGregor,Bob Geldof
International Herald Tribune - France
"My War: Killing Time in Iraq" by Colby Buzzell was to receive
the $10000 Blooker prize on Monday, beating out 110 entries from 15
countries. ...
Soldier wins Blooker Prize
By Minic Rivera
Colby Buzzell’s memoir about his year of fighting in Iraq has won the Blooker Prize
for the best book of the year based on a blog. The former US machine
gunner’s book “My War: Killing Time in Iraq” was awarded the £5000
($A12,000) prize ...
Colby won the 2007 Blooker Prize
By Sean from DocintheBox(Sean from DocintheBox)
I was listening to NPR earlier and heard that Colby Buzzell won the top 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize for My War and the interview they did with him. 10000 dollars is a lot of spare change to most bloggers. Good job man! ...
War Story Wins Blooker Prize
newswire.co.nz - Havelock Nth,Hawkes Bay,New Zealand
An American soldier's violent and darkly comic account of fighting in
Iraq has won the Blooker prize for best book that began as a blog.
...
Arts, Briefly
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
An American soldier’s memoir of combat in the Sunni Triangle in Iraq has
won the $10000 Lulu Blooker Prize for the best book that originated
as a blog. ...
Across The Media Universe: "CBS.com/nobodycomeshere."
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
Blogging The War: The military might not like soldiers' blogs, but the
folks at the Lulu Blooker Prize sure do. Colby Buzzell's
"My War: Killing Time In ...
War book wins Blooker blog prize
By Catherine
“A book written by a US soldier about his experiences in post-war Iraq has won the Blooker prize for books based on blogs. My War: Killing Time in Iraq, by Colby Buzzell, walked off with the $10000 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize.” ...
Ex-Soldier's Iraq Memoir Captures $10000 Lulu Blooker Prize
Bloomberg - USA
... that began as a US machine- gunner's blog, won the $10000
Lulu Blooker Prize, defeating books about Florentine doorbells and
teenagers' postcards. ...
Book on Iraq war wins 2007 blogging book prize
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
Lulu Blooker Prize is a literary award for "Blooks" (books
based on blogs), inaugurated in 2006. The contest was set up for bloggers
who have turned their ...
Banned Military Blogger Wins Blooker Prize Book Award
By disembedded
Killing Time In Iraq by Colby Buzzell has been named the winner of this year’s Lulu Blooker Prize. Buzzell’s book grew out of a blog that which he started in 2004 while serving as a front-line machine-gunner based in Mosul, ...
2007 Blooker Prize Winners!
By Eli James
I’ve talked about how Blooker prize winners are, in
the end, amateurs, but while this year’s selection may not have
improved from a literary point of view (don’t expect The God Of Small
Things anytime soon) it has certainly presented an ...
War book wins Blooker blog prize
BBC News - UK
A book written by a US solider about his experiences in post-war Iraq has
won the Blooker prize for books based on blogs. My War: Killing Time
in Iraq, ...
US soldier's Iraq memoir wins blog book prize
Reuters.uk - UK
LONDON (Reuters) - An American soldier's account of fighting in
Iraq's Sunni triangle has won the "Blooker prize" for
best book that began as a blog on the ...
US soldier's Iraq front line blog wins prize
Middle East Times - Cairo,Egypt
Colby Buzzell's My War: Killing Time In Iraq, the winner of this
year's Lulu Blooker Prize, grew out of an online journal which
he started in 2004 while ...
Ex-Soldier's Iraq Memoir Wins Blog Prize
A former US machine gunner's irreverent memoir about his year fighting
in Iraq has won the second annual prize for the best book based on a
blog.
IBTimes.com RSS Feed - http://www.ibtimes.com
Colby Buzzel Wins Prize
By Kat(Kat)
"My War: Killing Time in Iraq," by Colby Buzzell was to receive the $10000 Blooker prize
on Monday, beating out 110 entries from 15 countries. US blogging queen
Arianna Huffington, a Blooker judge, called Buzzell's book "an
unfiltered,
The Middle Ground - http://themiddleground.blogspot.com/
Ex-soldier's Iraq memoir wins blog prize
... irreverent memoir about his year fighting in Iraq has won
the second annual prize for the best book based on a blog. "My War:
Killing Time in Iraq," by Colby Buzzell was to receive the $10000 Blooker prize on Monday, beating out 110...
PressOfAtlanticCity.com: World - http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/world/
Soldier blogger wins Blooker Prize
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
A former US machine gunner's irreverent memoir about his year fighting
in Iraq has won the Blooker prize for the best book of the year
based on a blog. ...
Traditional publishers scouring blogs for the first bestselling ...
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Julie Powell's cooking creation was awarded the inaugural Blooker
Prize last year and is now being made into a film, referred to - you
guessed it - as a ...
