Swiss Blog Award committee throws in the towel

The Swiss Blog Award committee has resigned with immediate effect. As reported by Netzwoche, the organizers Markus Böniger, Nick Lüthi and Jan Zuppinger announced in a post on the Swiss Blog Award blog on 15 January that they would no longer be in office. According to Zuppinger, there are two reasons for this: Firstly, they no longer wanted to work for two to three months without pay and secondly, the award had developed in a different direction than intended. The event should have been a party event for bloggers, but now the focus is only on evaluating the blogs. The three initiators are willing to hand over the event to a new organizing committee. The awards were presented for the first time last May.