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3rd Best Design/Creative Blog at RoBlogFest

Posted: March 15th, 2008 | Author: Iancu | Filed under: personal | 9 Comments »

Last night my blog came out as the 3rd Best Design/Creative Blog (link in romanian) at RoBlogFest (the competition for the best and most popular romanian blogs). Even if I wasn’t interested in participating, I can’t say that I’m not glad. Appreciations are always welcome as long as you don’t let them fool you.

I want to thank Diana (www.creativecheaters.com – another great blog about advertising, design and especially ideas, that came close to taking my place :P ) for subscribing my blog in the competition. All the fame and glory (read traffic :P) should go to her :) And thanks Oana, she almost started a crusade in my name, saying I should’ve won :)) It’s better to be the third or the second, that means you’ll try harder than the first ;) Actually, third is the best, as Jerry Seinfeld says. Thanks go to the jury as well.

All in all, it took this prize to make me think again about why I’m writing this blog and how I want it to be like. I’m still not very sure about the “why” part, but the blog really needs the redesign I’ve been thinking about for quite some time now. Either do something right or don’t do it at all.

The biggest change will be the name, since “ibarbar”, even though an abbreviation of my name, hard to find elsewhere, lacks the ease of pronunciation and memorability a good name should have. So I’ve already bought the .com domain for the new name, I already have the logo, now I have to redesign the blog. Since I’m no webdesigner I’ll have to either be incredible lucky and find a good wordpress theme, sluggishly design one of my own or ask somebody’s help :) Anyway, I’m hoping it’ll be up and running soon enough. In the mean time, should you have any ideas, comments or tips, I’d be glad to hear them, as always.

Thanks for reading.

9 Comments on “3rd Best Design/Creative Blog at RoBlogFest”

  1. 1 Eugen said at 1:35 PM on March 16th, 2008:

    Congrats!

  2. 2 Iancu said at 1:48 PM on March 16th, 2008:

    Thanks :)

  3. 3 Adrian Mironescu said at 11:28 AM on March 17th, 2008:

    Brava!

  4. 4 arpadov said at 12:46 PM on March 17th, 2008:

    congratulation mon cherry amie… mon petit scortzar tu est le star

  5. 5 Dragos said at 1:23 PM on March 17th, 2008:

    Ok, me too: Happy Birthday :)

  6. 6 Kit said at 1:43 PM on March 17th, 2008:

    Hurray! (And yes, you should have won.)

  7. 7 Iancu said at 2:14 PM on March 17th, 2008:

    Arpi, you sneaky bastard, I’ll get you one day :))

    Thank you Adi, Dragos and Kit (it’s better to let them think they’re first :D).

  8. 8 Ionut T said at 8:15 PM on March 17th, 2008:

    Bravos, cat despre imbunatatiri ce cred ca ar fi bine si i-am recomandat si lui Adi B privind http://stiinta.info, ar fi posiblitatea trimiterii unui post la diferite adrese de mail. Keep the good work happening, success for next contest.

  9. 9 luminescent said at 1:12 PM on March 21st, 2008:

    hey, congrats!

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