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2008 Bloggies Nomination Period Underway

Bloggies 2008The nomination period for the 2008 Bloggies is underway. It will last until Friday, January 11. You can nominate your favorite weblogs and/or your own blog or blogs.
From now until 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) on Friday, January 11, 2008, anyone can nominate their favorite weblogs.

That Sunday, January 13, three panels of 50 voters will receive an e-mail. It will list the weblogs that have received the most nominations in ten categories. They will have until 10:00 PM EST on Friday, January 18 to privately submit their five favorites (six for Weblog of the Year) for each category. The five (or six for Weblog of the Year) receiving the most votes will become finalists. I (Nikolai Nolan) will only vote for the panel in the case of a tie for fifth place. This panel is on an opt-in policy; there is a checkbox on this form for it.

On Tuesday, January 22, the finalists will be announced and voting will be open again to choose the winners.

Voting will close at 10:00 PM EST on Thursday, January 31. The winners will be posted sometime between Sunday, March 9 and Tuesday, March 11.
This is the eigth year for the Bloggies. You can see a list of the 2007 Bloggies winners here.

Posted on January 8, 2008
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Webby Award Winners Announced

The Webby Award winners have been announced. You can see the winners here. Below are the winners in the blogging and social media categories.

  • In Best Practices Flickr won the Webby and Last.fm, a music social network, won the People's Voice award.
  • Blog Business: NYTimes' DealBook (Webby) Bannerblog (People's Voice)
  • Blog Culture/Personal: We make money not art (Webby) TreeHugger (People's Voice)
  • Political: Truthdig (Webby and People's Voice)
  • Broadband: Blip.tv (Webby and People's Voice)
  • Community: Flickr (Webby and People's Voice)
  • Podcasts: NPR Podcasts (Webby and People's Voice)
  • Social Networking: LinkedIn (Webby) Facebook (People's Voice)

    There were also blog-related winners in general categories like VH1's Best Week Ever blog winning the Culture People's Voice award; Fabsugar winning the Fashion People's Voice award; and Cute Overload winning in the weird category. Last.fm also won in the Music category.

    There were also several special achievement awards that included the following of interest to bloggers and vloggers:
  • Webby Person of the Year: Steve Chen & Chad Hurley, Co-Founders, YouTube
  • Webby Film & Video Awards Best Actor: Ask A Ninja
  • Webby Film & Video Awards Best Actress: Jessica Lee Rose (Lonelygirl15)

    Posted on May 2, 2007
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  • PayPerPost Launches Blogger's Choice Awards

    Bloggers Choice AwardsPayPerPost has launched the Blogger's Choice Awards. Blogs can be nominated in dozens of categories including Best Blog of All Time, Best Animal Bloggers, Best Geek Blog, Best Podcast, Best Humor Blog, Hottest Mommy Blogger and Worst Blog of All Time. You can also vote for blogs by clicking on the vote button next to them. The site says, "You can cast a vote because you think the blog is pretty, is user-friendly, or simply because you like the person who created it." You can only vote once per blog, pe category according to PayPerPost.
    Not only can you nominate your favorite blogs within a slew of distinct categories but you can also vote and comment on others that have already been submitted. In turn, others can also vote and comment on the blogs you've nominated. The exciting thing is votes will be shown on the site in real-time, so you can see who's leading within each category! Winners in each respective category will be recognized at a one-of-a-kind awards ceremony on June 2nd, at Postiecon in Orlando, FL. After the ceremony, the results will be posted on this page.

    There are no restrictions to nominations, votes, or comments. You can nominate as many blog sites as you want. In fact, the more the better! You can also comment as often as you'd like. You may also vote for as many blogs as you like, but you can only vote once per blog, per category.
    There's also a bunch of badges available for nominated blogs. Winners will be announced on June 2nd at the PostieCon, a blogging conference set up by PayPerPost. You can see some of the speakers here.

    Posted on April 6, 2007
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    YouTube Announces 2006 Video Award Winners

    YouTube Video AwardsLast week YouTube announced a spur of the moment video awards contest. Today they have announced the winners. Here are the winners of YouTube's 2006 Video Awards.

  • Most Creative: Here It Goes Again, OKGo
  • Best Comedy: Smosh Short 2: Stranded, Smosh
  • Best Commentary: Hotness Prevails, thewinekone
  • Best Series: Ask A Ninja, digitalfilmmaker
  • Best Music Video: Say It's Possible, TerraNaomi
  • Most Inspirational: Free Hugs Campaign, PeaceOnEarth123
  • Most Adorable: Kiwi!, Madyeti47

    You can also see the list of winners and nominees on YouTube.com at: www.youtube.com/ytawards

    Posted on March 26, 2007
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  • YouTube Holding Belated Video Awards Contest

    YouTubeThe Associated Press is reporting (hat tip Mashable) that YouTube is going to release a list of the best YouTube videos from 2006 tomorrow. The AP says the list of nominees is at www.youtube.com/YTAwards but the page is either not loading or that is not the right URL. But the AP does list some familiar faces as nominees.
    The video-sharing Web site announced Monday that it will hold the first YouTube Video Awards to recognize the best-user created videos of 2006. The awards will be handed out in seven categories: most creative, most inspirational, best series, best comedy, musician of the year, best commentary and "most adorable video ever."

    The nominees, picked by YouTube, are compiled in a gallery at www.youtube.com/YTAwards. YouTube community members can vote on their favorites beginning Monday and concluding on Friday. The winners, as chosen by the community, will be announced March 25. Each will be prominently featured on YouTube and receive a trophy, the design of which will be revealed later.

    Among the nominees are noted "vloggers" Paul Robinett ("Renetto") and Peter Oakley ("Geriatric1927"). The comedy of Barats and Bereta, and Smosh, is also nominated, as are series such as Lonelygirl15's and "Ask a Ninja." The power pop band OK Go is perhaps the most professional of the nominees; it's nominated for the famous treadmill-choreographed music video, "Here It Goes Again."
    Robert Scoble points out that these YouTube Video Awards are a copy of the annual Vloggies. Vloggies is a much better name. There is a nice collection of video interviews with online content producers on the Vloggies Show blog. Our post on the Vloggies winners from last year can be found here.

    The Associated Press named their picks for the top 2006 YouTube videos last December. YouTube's video awards will barely make it by the end of the first quarter of 2007.

    Posted on March 19, 2007
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    2007 Bloggies Winners

    2007 BloggiesThe winners of the 2007 Bloggies have been announced. PostSecret once again leads and wins three bloggies including Weblog of the Year. It wasn't quite as bad as last year when PostSecret won five bloggies -- 16% of all the bloggies in 2006 were given to PostSecret. Gizmodo and Go Fug Yourself also won two Bloggies each.

  • Best Web Application for Weblogs: YouTube
  • Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog: The Breakfast Blog
  • Best Asian Weblog: Tokyo Girl Down Under
  • Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog: Secret Dubai Dairy
  • Best European Weblog: My Boyfriend is a Twat
  • Best British or Irish Weblog: Girl With a One-Track Mind
  • Best Latin American Weblog: Cooking Diva
  • Best Canadian Weblog: Drawn!
  • Best American Weblog: Cute Overload
  • Best Photography of a Weblog: Flickr Blog
  • Best Craft Weblog: Make: Blog
  • Best Food Weblog: Help! I Have a Fire in My Kitchen
  • Best Sports Weblog: Arseblog
  • Best Weblog About Music: Pitchfork
  • Best Entertainment Weblog: Go Fug Yourself
  • Best Weblog About Politics: Wonkette
  • Best Web Development Weblog: A List Apart
  • Best Computers or Technology Weblog: Gizmodo
  • Best Topical Weblog: PostSecret
  • Best GLBT Weblog: PerezHilton
  • Best Teen Weblog: It's Raining Noodles
  • Most Humorous Weblog: Go Fug Yourself
  • Best Writing of a Weblog: Waiter Rant
  • Best Group Weblog: Lifehacker
  • Best Community Weblog: PostSecret
  • Best-Designed Weblog: Gizmodo
  • Best-Kept Secret Weblog: Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
  • Best New Weblog: Say No to Crack
  • Lifetime Achievement: Slashdot
  • Weblog of the Year: PostSecret

    Posted on March 18, 2007
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  • 2007 Bloggies Open for Voting

    2007 BloggiesThe 2007 Bloggies are now open for voting. The website says that voting will close at 10:00 PM EST on Friday, February 2 and that the winners will be posted on Monday, March 12. The Weblog Awards ceremony will be held at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

    There are a couple category changes this year. The Best Tagline of a Weblog and Best Podcast of a Weblog categories have been removed. Two new categories have been added in their place: Best Sports Weblog and Best Weblog About Music.

    Blogs up for Weblog of the Year this year include Boing Boing, Gizmodo, PostSecret, Lifehacker, Go Fug Yourself and Dooce. Blogs up for Best New Blog include Notes From Inside My Head, Project: Rungay, Global Culture, Marty Finestone's Activity Book and Say No to Crack. The Best Kept Secret category often includes some interesting blogs. This year's Best Kept Secret blog nominations include The Gilded Moose, Confessions of a Pioneer Women, Woof Woofington, To Whom it May Concern and Fat Cyclist.

    PostSecret dominated last year's Bloggies. They are up for four Bloggies again this year including Weblog of the Year. Gizmodo has been nominated for six awards this year -- it is even in the Most Humorous Weblog category. Tech gadgets can be so hilarious.

    Winners of the 2006 Bloggies can be found here and the 2005 Bloggies winners can be found here.

    Posted on January 26, 2007
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    Pulitzer Now Allows Blog Submissions

    Pulitzer PrizesNew guidelines for the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes allow the submission of a blogs. A press release from the Pulitzer Board discusses the widening of the range of online journalims to include blogs and other online content.
    The purpose of the new category is to encourage and honor exemplary local journalism, marked by strong reporting across a spectrum of potential subjects. "The Pulitzer Prizes have long valued such reporting," Gissler said, "but this makes our interest much more explicit."

    While the local category replaces the Beat Reporting category that was created in 1991, the work of beat reporters remains eligible for entry in a wide range of categories that include-depending on the specialty involved-national, investigative, and explanatory reporting, as well as the new local category.

    With its new rules for online submissions, the Pulitzer Board will require each online element to be a single, discretely designated presentation, such as a database, blog, interactive graphic, slide show, or video presentation. Each designated element will count as one item in the total number of items, print or online, that are permitted in an entry.
    The How to Submit a Entry PDF File also contains the following Q&A:
    Q. What is an online element?
    A. It is a single, unified, discretely designated presentation. For example, it can be an online story, database, blog, interactive graphic, slide show or video presentation. Each designated element will count as one item in the total number permitted in an entry.

    Q. How much online content can a single element contain?
    A. There is no absolute limit. However, the burden on a jury should be kept in mind. An online element with multiple parts, such as a blog with manifold postings, should be a cohesive presentation. The conceptual logic tying the parts together should be clear.
    Most of the language on the pulitzer.org site and in the PDF talks about newspapers so there may be a bias towards newspaper blogs. There is also no specific award being offered for a blog. More information about the Pulitzer's submission process can be found here. (via Journalism.co.uk).

    Posted on November 28, 2006
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    Winners of The BoBs Announced

    The BoBsThe Deutsche Welle 2006 Best of the Blogs Awards jury member gave out honors in the BOBs' 15 categories. The top award for Best Weblog went to the US blog Sunlight Foundation. The BoBs are awarded in fifteen categories and ten different languages. The official competition languages are Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Submissions in any one of or any combination of contest languages are valid in the categories "Best Weblog," "Best Corporate Blog," "Best Podcast," the "Reporters Without Borders Award" and the "Blogwurst Award." Here is a list of the winners.

  • Best Weblog: Sunlight Foundation
  • Best Podcast: Muzimei Studio
  • Best Corporate Blog: Soccer Club
  • Reporters Without Borders Award: Kosoof
  • Blogwurst Award: aref-adib
  • Best Weblog English: PaidContent.org
  • Best Weblog German: Letters from Rungholt
  • Best Weblog Spanish: La Huella Digital
  • Best Weblog Russian: Magazeta: Alles über China
  • Best Weblog Portuguese: Apocalipse Motorizado
  • Best Weblog Dutch: Bureau Belgrado
  • Best Weblog Persian: Zeitun
  • Best Weblog French: La Buvette des Alpages
  • Best Weblog Arabic: Jar el Kamar
  • Best Weblog Chinse: The Colourful World - Shuweicao's Blog

    The were also winners in the User category including Lisa Neun (Best Weblog), Black Looks (Best Weblog English) and Mangas Verdes (Best Weblog Spanish). The complete list of User winners can be found here.

    Posted on November 13, 2006
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  • Winners of the Vloggies Announced

    VloggiesThe winners of the first annual Vloggies, video blog awards, were announced last night in San Franscisco. Alive in Baghdad was the star of the awards winning four different awards including Best Vlog and Best Political Vlog. Some of the other Vloggies winners included Ze Frank (Favorite Male vlog), Freshtopia (Best Food vlog), JetsetShow (Best Kids vlog), Rocketboom (Best News vlog), Ryanne Hodson (Favorite Female vlog), Bleeding Edge TV (Best Tech vlog), Ask a Ninja (Best Comedy vlog) and travelvlog.org (Favorite Travel vlog). Mefeedia won in the Vlog directory category beating out the nominees Network2, OurMedia, Mobunga, blip.tv, vlogdir and VlogMap.org.

    Robert Scoble has full winners lists for both the Judged awards and the People's Choice awards. You can see a complete list of the nominees here. More coverage of the Vloggies can be found on PodTech.net, LaughingSquid, Scobleizer and Down the Avenue.

    Posted on November 5, 2006
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    Blog Awards Roundup: 9-11-06

    Here is a roundup of the status of blog awards that have recently announced winners or are in nominations or voting periods.

  • The 2006 Okie Blog Awards are currently in a voting phase until September 20th. The Okie Blog Awards are exclusively for Oklahoma bloggers. Winners will be announced at the Okie Blogger Round-up in Oklahoma City on Sept. 23.

  • The Manchester Blog Awards, for blogs in Manchester, UK has opened its nominations period. The nominating period closes on October 1.

  • The Asia Blog Awards has listed nominees for multiple categories.

  • The winners of the 2006 Black Weblog Awards have been announced. Some of the winners include Juicy-News (Best New Blog); Thoughts of an Angry Black Man (Best Personal Blog); Tiffany B. Brown (Best Technology Blog); Blac(k)ademic (Best Topical Blog) and Young, Black, and Fabulous (Blog of the Year).

  • The The Addicts Choice Knitting Blog Award winners have also been announced. Some of the winners include Threaded Bliss (Funniest Knitting Blog); sock prOn (Best Sock Blog); Three Sheeps to the Wind (Best New Knitting Blog); Chronicles of Yarnia (Best Blog Name) and Yarn Harlot (Best Overall Knitting Blog).

    Posted on September 11, 2006
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  • Blogathon 2006 Awards Announced

    The Blogathon 2006 awards have been announced. Over 370 bloggers participated in this year's blogathon, where participating bloggers blogged once every 30 minutes for 24 hours to raise money for charity. You can learn more about the annual Blogathon here. Here is a list of this year's award winners.

  • Best fundraiser, at $7737.00: Willos Web
  • Best Non-Fiction Writing for her blog about Cancer: An Indian Summer
  • Best Fiction Writing for a mystery involving sponsors: So You Want to Murder a Racecar Driver...
  • Best Audience Participation: Weblog Design Studios
  • Best Food Blog: In The Kitchen With Moozie
  • Best Music Blog: *insert witty title here*
  • Best "Just Blogging" Blog: Binary Blonde
  • Best Visual Arts: Fembat Unhinged
  • Cat's Choice: Blogging For Christi!
  • Best Blog, for keeping it together during the Sabbath Schedule, super food, and general wonderfulness: Renegade Kosher Cooking

    Posted on August 31, 2006
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  • MarketingSherpa Announces Blog Award Winners

    MarketingSherpa has announced the winners of their annual blog awards for business and marketing blogs. Here is the list of winners.

  • Best Podcast on the topic of Marketing: Across the Sound by Joseph Jaffe
  • Best B-to-B Marketing Blog: B2B Lead Generation Blog by Brian Carroll
  • Best Blog on Email Marketing: Chris Baggott's Email Marketing Best Practices
  • Best Blog on Search Marketing: Search Engine Roundtable
  • Best Blog on Advertising: Adrants by Steve Hall
  • Best Blog on Marketing to a Specific Consumer Demographic: Andy Wibbels
  • Best blog on Affiliate Marketing: ReveNews
  • Best Blog on the Topic of PR: Active Voice by Matt "PodBoy"
  • Best Blog on Small Business Marketing: Duct Tape Marketing by John Jantsch
  • Best Foreign-Language Blog: Marketing-Blog Biz -- Besserwerberblog
  • Best Blog on General Marketing Topics: Seth Godin's Blog by Seth Godin

    Last year's MarketingSherpa winners can be found here.

    Posted on June 27, 2006
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  • Voting Starts on MarketingSherpa Blog and Podcasting Awards

    MarketingSherpa has opened voting on its annual blog and podcasting awards. Categories include B-to-B marketing blogs, advertising blogs, search marketing blogs, pr blogs, small business blogs, podcasts and several other categories. Voting will end on Monday, June 26th. A list of last year's winners can be found here.

    Posted on June 22, 2006
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    Winners of the 2006 Photobloggies Announced

    The winners of the 2006 Photobloggies have been announced. The awards celebrate photoblogs worldwide. This year the awards were judged by the editors of several photography magazines. Daily Dose of Imagery was named the Photoblog of the Year. Best New Photoblog went to i-Shot and Best Photoblog Design went to Intransient Photojournal. The award for Photo of the Year went to this photograph. The runners up in the interesting Photo of the Year category can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. A complete list of this year's winners can be found here.

    Posted on May 29, 2006
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    2006 Photobloggies Open for Nominations

    2006 PhotobloggiesThe Photobloggies, an annual award for photoblogs, have opened the nominations phase for the 2006 Photobloggies. Photobloggies defines a photoblog as a website whose primary content is photographs displayed in a log format. The Photobloggies point you to Photoblogs.org if you need to see any examples. Nominations will be accepted until May 8th at Midnight (EST).

    Last year the Photoblog was of the Year was Daily Dose of Imagery and the 2005 Best New Photoblog was Joe's NYC. Each year the Photobloggies also include regional and subject awards in addition to the "best of" awards. You can see a list of the winners from the 2005 Photobloggies here. The Photobloggies were organized by by Brandon Stone, Jake Dobkin, and Rannie Turingan.

    Posted on April 28, 2006
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    Webby Awards Include Three Blog Categories

    The Webby AwardsThe Webby Award nominations have been announced and this year there are three blog-related categories including business, personal/cultural and political. There is also a podcast category.

    Blog - Business
  • 5 Blogs Before Lunch
  • Gartner, Inc
  • GM FastLane blog
  • Inc.com
  • NextBillion.net

    Blog - Cultural/Personal
  • Boing Boing
  • Cute Overload
  • Rocketboom
  • TreeHugger
  • we make money not art

    Blog - Political
  • BAGnewsNotes
  • CJR Daily
  • The Huffington Post

    Podcasts
  • NPR Podcasts
  • Podcast Pickle
  • Voices on Genocide Prevention
  • Yahoo! Podcasts
  • Youth Radio

    Bloglines and Technorati are also nominated in the Best Practices category. And PostSecret, which is both a blog and book, is nominated in the NetArt category. Rocketboom also has a nomination in the Best Use of Video category. A complete list of this year's Webby nominees can be found here.

    Posted on April 19, 2006
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  • 2005 Koufax Award Winners Announced

    Wampum has posted the winners of the 2005 Koufax Awards. The political blog awards for lefty blogs have been given since 2002. Here is a list of the winners:

  • Best Blog -- Non Professional: Crooks & Liars
  • Best Blog -- Professional or Sponsored: Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo
  • Best Blog Community: Daily Kos
  • Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Echidne of the Snakes
  • Best New Blog: Glenn Greenwald of Unclaimed Territory
  • Best Writing: Digby of Hullabaloo
  • Best Single Issue Blog: Jordan Barab of Confined Space
  • Best Expert Blog: Pharyngula by P.Z. Myers
  • Best Group Blog: Shakespeare's Sister
  • Best Post: Bag News Notes for Katrina Aftermath: And Then I Saw These
  • Best Series: FireDogLake for Plame coverage
  • Most Humorous Blog: Jesus' General
  • Most Humorous Post: Dood Abides for The Wizard of Oil
  • Best State or Local Blog: Bluegrass Report and Tennessee Guerilla Women

    Posted on April 5, 2006
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  • Julie Powell Wins Blooker Prize

    Julie Powell has won the first annual Blooker Prize for her book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, One Tiny Apartment Kitchen, which is based on her blog called The Julie/Julia Project. The book based on the blog has sold 100,000 copies to date according to VNU.
    Powell has been working as a nanny and secretarial temp while penning her blog, in which she tries to cook recipes from American cookery grande dame Julia Child in a cramped New York apartment over the course of a year.

    "Too old for theatre, too young for children, and too bitter for anything else, Julie Powell was looking for a challenge," she writes.

    "And in the Julie/Julia project she found it. Risking her marriage, her job and her cats' wellbeing, she has signed on for a deranged assignment: 365 days, 536 recipes, one girl and a crappy outer borough kitchen."

    The book of the blog has sold over 100,000 copies, and a film is planned shortly.
    Judge Paul Jones said, "A great blook isn't a website shoveled onto paper. Julie and Julia successfully makes the transition and grows as it goes, having learned from the blog readers. The deeply personal story here, the story of an obsession, leads us all to see what could be trivial and indulgent as a personal and as it turns out communal art, an art of transformation and of conquest (of egg dishes and of self-doubt)."

    The other Blooker winners were Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest in Fiction and Totally Boned by Zach Miller in Comics.

    Posted on April 3, 2006
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    Anonymous Blog Nominated for Nonfiction Book Award

    The BBC reports that Baghdad Burning, an anonymous blog written by anonymous woman living in Iraq, has been nominated for the BBC Four's Samuel Johnson Prize.
    Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 books in contention.

    Others include Alan Bennett's Untold Stories, a biography of 19th-Century cook and author Mrs Beeton and a study of post-war US-Soviet relations.

    The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced on 14 June.

    Professor Robert Winston, chair of the judging panel, said this year's longlist contained "an exceptionally wide variety of genres".
    The Baghdad Burning blog started in August, 2003 and is still active today. Here is what she has to say after three years of living in a war.
    Three years later and the nightmares of bombings and of shock and awe have evolved into another sort of nightmare. The difference between now and then was that three years ago, we were still worrying about material things- possessions, houses, cars, electricity, water, fuel... It's difficult to define what worries us most now. Even the most cynical war critics couldn't imagine the country being this bad three years after the war... Allah yistur min il rab3a (God protect us from the fourth year).


    Posted on March 27, 2006
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    PostSecret Dominates 2006 Bloggies

    The winners of the 2006 Bloggies have been announced. PostSecret dominated the awards winning five bloggies including Best New Weblog and Weblog of the Year. Over 16% of all the bloggies given went to PostSecret. PostSecret is a blog and a book that posts anonymous post cards containing people's biggest previously untold secrets. Other multiple winners were Joshuaink.com, Go Fug Yourself and Boing Boing -- each of these blogs won two bloggies. Dooce, which won four bloggies in 2004, did not win this year. Cute Overload was nominated for a total of four bloggies this year and did not win. And My Boyfriend Is a Twat, Photojunkie and Wonkette won again this year in the same categories they won in last year.

    Here is a list of the winners:

  • Best Web Application for Weblogs: Blogger
  • Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog: Loobylu
  • Best Asian Weblog: Tokyo Girl
  • Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog: Baghdad Burning
  • Best European Weblog: My Boyfriend Is a Twat
  • Best British or Irish Weblog: Girl With a One-Track Mind
  • Best Latin American Weblog: Cooking Diva
  • Best Canadian Weblog: Photojunkie
  • Best American Weblog: PostSecret
  • Best Tagline: Joshuaink.com: "More love than a bus full of hippies"
  • Best Podcast of a Weblog: The Movie Blog
  • Best Photography of a Weblog: FlickrBlog
  • Best Craft Weblog: Make:Blog
  • Best Food Weblog: Vegan Lunch Box
  • Best Entertainment Weblog: Go Fug Yourself
  • Best Weblog about Politics: Wonkette
  • Best Web Development weblog: ProBlogger
  • Best Computers or Technology Weblog: Slashdot
  • Best Topical Weblog: PostSecret
  • Best GLBT Weblog: Queerty
  • Best Teen Weblog: It's Raining Noodles
  • Best Humorous Weblog: Overheard in New York
  • Best Writing of a Weblog: Go Fug Yourself
  • Best Group Weblog: Boing Boing
  • Best Community Weblog: PostSecret
  • Best Designed Weblog: Joshuaink.com
  • Best Kept Secret Weblog: Needcoffee.com
  • Best New Weblog: PostSecret
  • Lifetime Achievement: Boing Boing
  • Weblog of the Year: PostSecret

    Posted on March 13, 2006
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  • Blooker Prize Short-list Announced

    The short-list for the Blooker prize has been announced. The Blooker Prize is billed as a literary contest for blooks, which are books based on blogs. Here is the list of the finalists.

    Nonfiction:
  • All The President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth by Bryan Keefer, Ben Fritz, and Brendan Nyhan (Source Blog: Spinsanity)
  • Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Anonymous (Source Blog: Belle de Jour)
  • Biodiesel Power by Lyle Estill (Source Blog: Piedmont Biofuels Energy Blog)
  • Egg Bacon Chips and Beans: 50 Great Cafes and the Stuff That Makes Them Great by Russell Davies (Source Blog: eggbaconchipsandbeans)
  • Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell (Source Blog: The Julie/Julia project)
  • Stone Cold Guilty - The People v. Scott Lee Peterson by Loretta Dillon (Source Blog: Observations of a Misfit)

    Fiction:
  • Action Poetry: Literary Tribes for the Internet Age edited by Levi Asher, Jamelah Earle, and Caryn Thurman (Source Blog: Literary Kicks)
  • Africa Fresh! New Voices from the First Continent edited by Rod Amis (Source Blog: G21: The World's Magazine)
  • Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest (Source Blog: Heretic Spire, a Damn Lie)
  • Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal by Keith Thomson (Source Blog: Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal)
  • hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble by Tom Evslin (Source Blog: hackoff.com)

    Comics:
  • Ambidextrous: Collection 1 by Kevin Cornell (Source Blog: Bearskinrug)
  • Comic Strip Volume 1: Scarybear and Friends by Jason Pultz (Source Blog: Scarybear)
  • Dinosaur Comics: Huge Eyes, Beaks, Intelligence, and Ambition by Ryan North (Source Blog: Dinosaur Comics)
  • The Dada Alphabet: An Absurdist's Illustrated Primer by Stephanie Freese, David Milloway, and Matthew Wood (Source Blog: The Dada Detective)
  • Totally Boned: A Joe and Monkey Collection by Zach Miller (Source Blog: Joe and Monkey)

    The winners of the Blooker Prize will be announced April 3, 2006.

    Posted on March 11, 2006
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  • Polls Open for 2005 Koufax Awards

    Wampum has opened the polls to start voting on the 2005 Koufax Awards. Wampus says it is the nominating process that is the most important part of the awards -- even more important the finalists and winners.
    First, the comment. From our point of view, the important work of the awards is mostly complete. We view the nominating process and the posting of links to all the nominated blogs, posts, and series as the core of the awards. If the idea is to build community and honor people who have provided free information, enlightenment, and entertainment over an entire year (and it is), that job is mostly done.

    The winning and losing part is completely secondary. After all, it is not really possible to determine who is MOST deserving of wider recognition. There is just no metric to apply. It is quite possible to make a large list of lefty bloggers who deserve greater recognition. That we have done. The same analysis applies to the other categories as well.
    This is actually the first of two voting phase. This phase will help to narrow each category down to 6-10 semi-finalists. Some great reads can be found in the Best Post category.

    Posted on March 4, 2006
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    Food Blog Award Winners Announced

    The winners of the 2005 Food Blog Awards have been announced. They were announced on the Well Fed Network, a recently launched network of food blogs. Here is a list of the winners.

  • Best Chef's Blog: Egg Beater
  • Best City Blog: David Lebovitz (Paris, France)
  • Best Blog Covering the Food Industry: The Food Whore
  • Best Blog Covering Wine, Beer or Spirits: Vinography
  • Best Food Blog - Humor: The Food Whore
  • Best Food Blog - Photography: Nordljus
  • Best Food Blog - Recipes: Chocolate & Zucchini
  • Best Food Blog - Restaurant Reviews: Becks and Posh
  • Best Food Blog - Theme: Gluten Free Girl
  • Best Food Blog - Writing: Chocolate & Zucchini
  • Best Group Food Blog: Too Many Chefs
  • Best Non Blogging Food Site: Epicurious
  • Best New Blog: Delicious Days
  • Best Post: Meat comes from Animals; Deal with it, or eat Vegetables - written by Barbara at Tigers & Strawberries
  • Best Overall Food Blog: Orangette

    Posted on January 25, 2006
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  • Finalists for the 2006 Bloggies Announced

    The finalists for the 2006 Bloggies have been announced and voting is now open. However, there appears to be a problem with the website -- it currently shows an account suspension notice. They will probably fix this soon. Voting will close at 10:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 31. The Bloggies say they will announced the winners will be posted sometime between Sunday, March 13 and Tuesday, March 15. The Bloggies include multiple categories for different regions and subjects as well as overall awards. In the Best New Blog category the finalists are Mainely Madge, Cute Overload, Drawn!, IDontLikeYouInThatWay.com and PostSecret. In the Weblog of the Year Award the finalists are PostSecret, Cute Overload, Dooce, Treehugger, Boing Boing and Lifehacker. Some of the most interesting blogs are often in the Best Kept Secret category. This year's finalists for Best Kept Secret Weblogs include: Golfwidow's Ministry of Silly Walks, Ear Farm, Come To Find Out..., The Man Who Couldn't Blog and Needcoffee.com.

    Here is a list of the blogs that are up for multiple awards:

  • PostSecret (5)
  • Cute Overload (4)
  • Dooce (4) - includes lifetime achievement
  • Boing Boing (3) - includes lifetime achievement
  • Go Fug Yourself (3)
  • Lifehacker (3)
  • Delicious Days (2)
  • Engadget (2)
  • Fark (2)
  • Gothamist (2)
  • IDontLikeYouInThatWay.com (2)
  • Joshuaink.com (2)
  • Karen Cheng (2)
  • Loobylu (2)
  • Overheard in New York (2)
  • Photojunkie (2)
  • Slashdot (2)
  • Talking Points Memo (2) - includes lifetime achievement
  • The Superficial (2)
  • Treehugger (2)

    This is a list of blogs that are finalists this year and were also finalists in 2005:

  • 456 Berea Street
  • Boing Boing (won 2005 Blog of the Year)
  • Chocolate & Zucchini
  • ChromeWaves.net
  • Daily Dose of Imagery (won 2005 Best Photography)
  • Dooce (won in four categories in 2005)
  • Engadget
  • Fark.com
  • Gawker
  • Gizmodo (won 2005 Best Technology Blog)
  • Go Fug Yourself
  • Gothamist (won 2005 Best Non-Weblog Content)
  • Karen Cheng
  • La Coquette
  • Little Yellow Different
  • Londonist
  • Loobylu (won 2005 Best-Designed Blog)
  • My Boyfriend Is a Twat (won 2005 Best European Blog)
  • Overheard in New York
  • Photojunkie (won 2005 Best Canadian Blog)
  • Popgadget
  • Simply Recipes
  • Slashdot (won 2005 Best Community Blog)
  • Stylegala
  • Subzero Blue
  • The Snowsuit Effort
  • Tokyo Times
  • Treehugger
  • Wonkette (won 2005 Best Blog about Politics)
  • WorldChanging

    More blog awards coverage can be found in our Blog Awards Category

    Posted on January 23, 2006
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  • Blog Awards Roundup: 1-22-06

    Here is roundup of some of the blog awards that are still in nominations and voting phases as well as a list of blog awards that have closed and announced winners.

  • We were expecting the nominees for the 2006 Bloggies on Friday, the 20th but the site has this message -> "Yes, I know the finalists aren't here yet. I'm working on it. Massive screencapping is fun..."
  • Voting has closed for the Food Blog Awards. Winners will be announced on WellFed.net beginning January 23rd.
  • The Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards are in second round voting. Final voting will start January 24th.
  • Problogger ran a poll to find out which blog award bloggers like best. Here are the results.
  • Voting is taking place at Battle of the Ad Blogs for the best ad blog in multiple categories. The last day of voting is February 10th.
  • The Blooker Prize continues to take entries until January 30, 2005. Winners will be announced April 3, 2006.
  • Voting has started on the 2006 Australian Blog Awards. Voting closes on the 26th of January, Eastern Australian Daylight Savings Time.
  • The Gunnies, awards for gun blogs, have started because they were left out of the Blogges. Currently in the nominations phase.
  • Nomations are open until January 27th for the Unitarian Universalist Blog Awards. Voting will occur between January 30th and February 10th.
  • The Irish Blog Awards is taking nominations.
  • The Best of Blogs has blog awards in many different categories.

    The following are blogging awards that announced winners over the past few weeks:

  • The Urbs: 2005 Urban Blogging Awards
  • Cliopatria Awards (history blogs)
  • Blog-X
  • Recruit.com Awards
  • Superblessed Christian Blog Awards
  • 2005 Deaf Blog Awards (Via Key Lime Pie Lovers Unite)
  • Search Engine Journal's 2005 Search Blogs Awards
  • 2005 Asian Blog Awards
  • Feedster's Feed of the Year -- the top feed is Workbench
  • 2005 Sports Blog Awards
  • Edublog Awards 2005 Winners
  • KBCafe Blog Award Winners
  • 2005 Weblog Awards

    More blog awards coverage can be found here and a list of blog award links can be found here.

    Posted on January 22, 2006
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  • Times Running Out to Submit Nominations for 2006 Bloggies

    The nomination period for the 2006 Bloggies ends at 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) on Tuesday, January 10, 2005. The nomination form can be found here. For those not in the know the Bloggies are annual awards for weblogs that have been given since 2001. The Bloggies include awards for blogs in different categories and regions as well as general awards for best blog, best podcast, best new blog, etc. After the nomination period ends tomorrow the ten blogs in each category receiving the most nominations will be sent to three panels of fifty voters who will vote for the finalists. The finalists will then be announced on Friday, January 20th when voting is opened up to the public.

    Posted on January 9, 2006
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    2005 Search Engine Blogs Award Winners Announced

    Search Engine Journal has announced part of the award winners of the 2005 Search Engine Blog Awards. Here is a list of the winners announced so far:

  • News & Blog Search Engine Run Blogs: Technorati weblog
  • Search Engine Marketing and Contextual Advertising: Jen Sense
  • Search Engine Owned and Operated Blogs: This was a close one with Google Blog edging out the Yahoo Search Engine blog.

    More blog awards links can be found here.

    Posted on December 21, 2005
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  • 2005 Weblog Award Winners Announced

    The winners of the 2005 Weblog Awards have been announced. The awards were given in over a dozen different topic categories. Awards were also given for international blogs as well. There were also several awards for blogs ranked in the TTLB Ecosystem. Some of the winning blogs including DailyKos (Best Blog); Ace of Spade (Best Conservative Blog); Oh No They Didn't! (Best Culture/Gossip Blog); Pam's House Blend (Best LGBT Blog); Law Dork (Best Law Blog); The Club for Growth (Best Business Blog); normblog (Best UK Blog) and Xiaxue (Best Asian Blog).

    Posted on December 19, 2005
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    Red Reporter Announces 2005 Sports Blog Awards

    Red Reporter has announced the 2005 Sports Blog Awards after noticing that there were not many awards for sports blogs.
    Sports blogs are one of the strongest niches in the blogosphere and have received a great deal of publicity and notice from the mainstream media. Sports bloggers deserve some respect and gratification for the work they do, and that's what I hope this will accomplish.
    The awards include categories for the blogs covering professional and college sports: Best MLB Blog, Best NFL Blog, Best NBA Blog, Best NHL Blog, Best College Sports Blog, Best NCAA Football Blog and Best NCAA Basketball Blog. There are also categories for Best General Sports Blog, Best Humor Blog and Best Newcomer. Nominations will run through December 19th. Voting will run from December 20th through January 1st, and Red Reporter hopes to announce winners on January 2nd. Sports Blogs can be nominated in the comments thread of this post. Red Reporter is also looking for prize donations for the contest.

    More blog awards can be found on our Blog Awards Links Page.

    Posted on December 13, 2005
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    Blog Awards Roundup 12-11-05

    There are many active blog awards this time of year. There areeven more this year than last year. We have compiled a list of Blog Award Links that lists some of the growing number of annual blog awards. Here is a status update on some of the awards.

  • Urban Blogging Awards -- voting is going on now and will continue until December 26, 2005. Winners will be announced shortly afterwards.

  • Blog-X Awards -- voting is going on now and the winner will be announced around December 16, 2005.

  • Recruiting.com Recruiter Blog Awards -- currently in nomination phase. Winners will be announced on Dec 26/05. (Via Workers Work)

  • Jewish and Israel Blog Awards 2005 -- Nominations open on Israellycool.com on December 12th. Winners announced January 31, 2006.

  • 2005 Food Blog Awards -- currently in nominations phase until December 16, 2005. From Dec 21st through December 31st, the polls will be open for people to vote.

  • 2005 Canadian Blog Awards -- winners have been announced. Best blog award went to Accordion Guy. Best new blog went to Rick Mercer. A complete list of winners and nominees is available here.

  • Superblessed Christian Blog Awards 2005 -- a list of the nominations has been posted.

  • Poker Prof Blog Awards -- winners have been anounced. The Golf award went to Bill Rini.

  • 2005 Medical Blog Awards -- currently in nominations phase. Polls will open for voting on January 3, 2006. (Via Health News Blog)

  • 2005 Search Blog Awards -- voting is taking place now. Winners will be announced on December 17th.

  • 2006 Australian Blog Awards -- currently in nominations phase. Nominations will accepted until the first week of January 2006.

  • Asian Blog Awards 2005 -- taking nominations until December 30, 2005.

  • Philippine Blog Awards 2005 -- winners have been announced. To the Tale, and Other Such Concerns won Pinoy Blogger of the Year.

  • Edublog Awards 2005 -- voting is open and will take place until December 17. Winners will be announced on December 18, 2005.

  • 2005 LOSLI Blog Awards -- currently in nominations phase with categories made up by Life...or something like it.

  • Homeschooling Blogger Awards 2005 -- voting begins December 12.

  • Blogs of Beauty Awards -- winners were announced on December 6.

  • The Weblog Awards 2005 -- voting occuring now until December 15, 2005.

    There is also an ongoing discussion of blog awards and the value of blog awards in the blogosphere. The growing number of blog awards has led some bloggers to question whether so many awards are good idea.

  • Jane Genova tells bloggers to shun awards: "My advice to bloggers: Shun awards. If nominated for them, say you won't participate and don't accept the award if awarded it. Don't submit to any awards competitions. Don't add to your blog any list of awards. Let's keep our game clean of the sort of stuff that helped bring down MSM. Let's keep the game focused on The Now of Real Time."
  • The Radiant Marketing Group has a post about blog awards that includes this good point that the awards are reminiscent of the website awards of the 90s: "They remind me of the fanaticism that surrounded website awards back in the 90s. Remember all those sites touting how many awards they had won."
  • BusinessBlogWire reviews some of the blog award conversation in a post titled "Are Blogging Awards Good or Evil?"

    Posted on December 11, 2005
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  • Blog Awards Roundup 12-6-05

    Singing Bridges has won the SmartyHost blog awards for best Australian blogger according to an article in The Age, a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia. Singing Bridges collects the $10,000 prize. Second and Third place went to Loobylu and Australian Culture. The 2005 Weblog Awards are now in their final stages -- people can now vote for their favorite blogs in several categories until December 15, 2005. MedGadget.com is rounding up the best medblogs with the Medical Blog Awards. Indibloggies.org is awards for the Indian blogosphere -- they have not yet started nominations for 2005. And there's even an award for poker blogs.

    Posted on December 6, 2005
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    Feedster Starts Feed of the Year Countdown

    After recently getting their Top 500 feature caught up Feedster is now running a countdown to the best Feed of the Year.
    "As a citizen of the blogosphere, Feedster has always recognized the achievements of independent bloggers and publishers. Our Feed of The Day was created as an opportunity to honor a unique voice or technology from within the din of the web," says Alan Graham, Feedster’s Community Liaison. "We are taking this one step further with our "Feed of The Year" Countdown. During the entire month of December we will recognize some of the best contributors to the blogosphere from our own Feed of The Day list."
    The countdown list kicked off today with Tropolism picked as Feed of the Year Finalist #31. The Feed of the Year judges include:

  • Betsy Richter, formerly chief editor of Excite.com, founding editor of Oregon Live, has her own blog My Whim is Law and is captain of Metroblogging's Portland site, one of 30 in an international network.
  • Dana Blankenhorn, has 25 years of experience writing about Internet content, and ecommerce strategies and is a member of the Internet Media Assn. Blankenhorn also writes the Dana's Moore's Law blog on Cornate which covers technology.
  • Russell Shaw is a technology and politics author, journalist, blogger and consultant. Author of seven books, he writes the daily IP Telephony Blog for ZDNet and is a frequent contributor to other tech and news blogs.

    The bottom line: there should be some good feeds worth subscribing to being discussed on Feedster this month.

    Posted on December 2, 2005
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  • Aussies Compete for Best Blog in SmartyBlog Awards

    The Sydney Morning Herald reports that SmartyHost is running a contest to find Australia's best blog.
    SmartyHost said the competition was accepting entries from any Australian regardless of the where their blog was hosted, and out of 25,000 visitors to the entry page, 500 had so far put their blog forward for the top prize.

    Anoosh Manzoori, managing director, said this was the first time a competition of this size had set its sights on blogging.

    "The judging will assess the actual content of the blog and how frequently they update their content," he said.

    The judging panel will comprise a number of journalists, academics and executives from outside the company, who will jointly decide on the winning blog.
    The grand prize is worth $10,000. Runners up get SmartyBlog hosting packages. More information about the contest can be found here. And an ongoing list of blogs entering the contest can be found here. The contest is only open to Australian bloggers.

    Posted on November 28, 2005
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    Blogathon Award Winners Announced

    The winners of the Blogathon Awards were announced last month. During Blogathon bloggers blogged every thirty minutes for twenty-four hours straight to raise money for a charity of their choice. Blogathon provided a list of suggested charities here. Bloggers participating in a blogathon had to find people to sponsor them who agree to donate money if they completed the blogging all-nighter. Blogathon provided monitors to make sure people continued blogging every thirty minutes for twenty-four hours. If you are curious as to how the bloggers managed to stay awake the Blogathon Awards explain in their faq:
    How can I stay awake?
    Ah, the age-old question: how to stay awake 24 hours while posting clever entries in your blog every thirty minutes? Some tried-and-true ways include:

  • Quick, cold showers.
  • Chatting online with other Blogathon participants.
  • Dancing! Dancing, singing and general moving help keep you awake in the late hours of the event.
  • Watch movies, television, play computer games or board games or anything that will engage your attention. Plus, you'll have something to write about.
  • Have a themed blog! If you're busy writing about the history of the yam or making a collage for your sponsors, you'll have a goal to sustain you through the event.
  • Here is a list of this year's Blogathon winners:

  • Best Blog: Fembat.Org : Blog Template Challenge
  • Best Writing Project: (2-way tie) Goodbye.nu Charity Blogathon and Chemmonkey
  • Most Enthusiastic: Stale Betty
  • Best Webcam: The Metafictional Blues: Blogathon '05 The Need to Read
  • Best Visual Arts Project: Portraits for a Purpose
  • Best Themed Blog: Three Moms and a Single Lady
  • Best Undefineable Project: DisconnectedBlog
  • Most Tired (but still made it!): Five Point Restraints
  • Best Audio Project: DevinAndMarty.com: SwampLog
  • Monitor's Choice bSpies: Zazzafooky
  • Monitor's Choice The Yellow Darts: The Alaska Blog
  • Monitor's Choice They Might Be Monitors: Lone Prairie Blog

    Posted on November 20, 2005
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  • Wizbang Opens 2005 Weblog Award Nominations

    Wizbang has opened the nominations for the 2005 Weblog Awards. A nomination faq, located here, says there were 3,000 blogs nominated in 2004 and more are expected in 2005. Wizbang has been running the awards since 2003. A list of last year's winners can be found here.

    Posted on November 15, 2005
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