A MARATHON runner and a full-time mathematics tutor are among the winners of the first Singapore Blog Awards.
The awards, organised by Singapore Press Holdings' bilingual web portal omy.sg, aim to showcase bloggers' creativity, and to popularise the form.
Mathematics tutor Loi Wai Ling, 33, won the Best Blog Shop award for her blog, www.exampaper.com.sg
Unlike many blog shops which sell accessories and clothing, hers sells sets of exam questions.
'I started the blog a year ago to share important maths exam questions with students,' Miss Loi said.
Engineering student and marathoner Shaun Chng, 24, won for having the Best Design blog.
In all, 1,000 blogs were considered, and 10 were shortlisted in each of the seven categories: best Youth Blog, Photo Blog, Design Blog, Individual Blog, Blog Shop, and Most Entertaining and Most Insightful blogs.
The entries were judged by filmmaker Kelvin Tong, The Theatre Practice's artistic director Ms Kuo Jian Hong, and Mr Man Shu Sum, CEO of film company Mark Burnett Productions Asia.
The winners received trophies and a laptop computer.
They were given their prizes at a ceremony held at the Asian Civilisations Museum last night.
