Well the results of The Bloggies are in. It appears that Boing! Boing! took home an award as did a number of deserving others out there. Even with all of this, it is still interesting to hear that about 56% of all Americans still are unfamiliar with what a blog even is. That is hard to believe, but it is true.

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things took the top overall blog prize.

The prize for the best British blog and the lifetime achievement award went to plasticBag.org, a site dedicated to musings about people and new media.

The winners from 30 categories were announced at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Texas, US.

Boing Boing is written by Cory Doctorow, Xeni Jardin, Mark Frauenfelder, and David Pescovitz, and started life five years ago as a paper-based magazine.

“We honestly didn’t expect this, and we are deeply moved and grateful,” Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin said on the site.

“There were many other deserving blogs up for awards, backed by talented folks who work very hard, and we raise our collective pirate-eye-patches in their honour.”

Blogs have been highlighted as a growing trend amongst net users over the last 18 months.

Most are easy and free to set up, require little technical knowledge. Many are blurring the line between journalism and online commentary.