2005 Weblog Awards Archives

Confederate Yankee

http://confederateyankee.mu.nu

May I humbly suggest the addition of another category? EduBlogs.

I Nominate:

Because I said so: http://blog.htmlgoddess.com

Illmethinks_Politiq

http://www.illmethinks.com

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I nominate for best podcast: Home Town Tales

http://www.hometowntales.com/

I would like to nominate the Legal Redux for Best Law Blog.

http://ledux.blogspot.com
http://ledux.blogspot.com/atom.xml

I nominate
http://betsyspage.blogspot.com/
the best conservative blog

Other categories to consider for the future:

Best Academic / Professorial Blog

Best Education Blog

Best Economic Blog

Best Literary Blog

Best Urban Blog

Best Rural Blog

Best Breastfeeding Blog
(okay, so my activist side is showing. . .)

Best Family Journal Blog

I look at my blogroll and see so many great blogs that really don't fit any of the categories (except, perhaps, the ecosystem ones.) And while I understand you do need to limit the categories at some point, I think some of the above categories would round out the Weblog Awards nicely.

Thanks for all your work, coding, moderating, and organizing! *grin*

a new blog that will only exist for 2005 (will morph into something else for 2006)

http://www.nowfifty.blogspot.com

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Im50NowWhat

I would like to nominate girl on the blogs blog for any categories it is applicable to
http://girlontheblog.blogspot.com

I nominate Redstate.org at www.redstate.org

I would like to nominate for the categories of Best Blog, Best New Blog, Best Blog Design, Best Canadian Blog and Best Asian Blog,

Hooked on Heat
http://www.hookedonheat.blogspot.com
http://hookedonheat.blogspot.com/atom.xml

I nominate: http://www.thomasgalvin.blogspot.com/

Why no award for Education Blogs?

What? How about a gun blog category?

I nominate: http://www.thomasgalvin.blogspot.com/

I nominate: http://www.thomasgalvin.blogspot.com/

I hereby nominate, with gusto:

http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/
http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/atom.xml

arf!!!!!

My nomination heartily goes to:
Yellow Dog Blog
http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com
http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Yellow Dog is articulate, irreverent, funny and a first on my "favorites" list!

How about "Best Curmudgeon Blog"? Then Bill Quick could easily get first place.

I nominate http://www.bialystocker.net in the media category, and I also make a suggestion: next year, add a category for "art blogs" since that's what this is and there are others. A category for those who do paintings, poetry, etc. would be really cool.

Best New Blog

Best Blog - http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

Those Bastards.com for Meanest Web Log (Wait, that's not a category) / Humor Blog

I nominate the Blazer Blog for Best New Blog http://www.mclablazers.blogspot.com

I nominate the Blazer Blog for Best New Blog http://www.mclablazers.blogspot.com

I second the nomination for bialystocker.net for best new blog.

Nomination for Best New Blog (or best education blog, should that be added):

http://www.grammarhell.com
http://www.grammarhell.com/ghell.xml

Awards by category are very good, but there are examples of sustained efforts to find and publish important stories that may not win categories, but certainly deserve a salute for their heroism, often at serious physical or legal risk to themselves.

An example is Captain's Quarters' sustained effort to let the world know what Canada's Liberal Party Government didn't want you to know.

Another example is Michael Yon's reporting from Iraq what ABCMSNBCCBSCNNalQuedaalJazeeraandSaddam didn't want you to know.

Roger L. Simon won't let go of the UN Oil for whatevertheywanted scandal.

Big Pharoah, Iraq the Model, and others blog from places way less politically comfortable than here in Southern California

In 2006, it might be bloggers getting out stories that change any of a number of countries for the better, China, Mexico, France, Russia, Syria, Iran, Nigeria, Sudan, even the US.

In 2006 it might be hundreds of American bloggers standing up to attempts to gag them in the guise of election laws.

These are the people who will courageously shine a needed light on the corrupt when the corrupt might be able to strike back at them.

These in-depth, single-issue reporting campaigns get out information to change the world.... They deserve our gratitude and recognition.

I would like to nominate Viewpoint Journal for the "Best Blog Design" category.

Thanks. :-)

David

Sorry, the URL for Viewpoint Journal is http://www.viewpointjournal.com. The RSS is http://viewpointjournal.com/feed/.

Thanks,

David

Best New Blog

Best new blog

http://uncletonoose.blogspot.com/

Best HUMOUR blog

http://uncletonoose.blogspot.com/

I nominate the Raving Conservative because it's just that good.

http://www.ravingconservative.com

I nominate the Raving Conservative for best blog.

http://www.ravingconservative.com

I would left the nomination in the best blog comments, but it appears to be closed to comments now.

To Whom It May Concern,

The nominations are over? It's bleedin' November! I was reading this site and saw "The 2005 Web Blog Awards" only to find out that it's "The 2005 January to November Web Blog Awards". Did someone cramp up while sprinting over to the calendar? Did someone's dog eat the page with December swimsuit model, so you all thought, "Ah, never mind. She was a sweet bird but we'll just skip to November"?

Fair is fair, mate. I mean, what if some really smashing blokes come up with a great idea for a web blog, post some brilliant content and do deliriously well in the month of December? Voters have got to wait in silent suffering and adulation until the end of 2006 to show their appreciation? They might as well be at the Golden Globes! It's still 2005 lads (and ladies)!!

Write-in candidates, that's what you need...and all those who agree can show their support by writing in The Dictionary of Unfortunate Ideas (http://unfortunateideas.blogspot.com) into the best blog category(or "best humor blog", or if such a category exists, "best off-beat, slightly disrespectful, with a well-meaning, yet fiercely independent, and currently preoccupied with squirrels and face-transplants blog", where we're sure to be winners.)

Or you can send freshly killed squirrel meat to this address, just for fun:

Squirrel for Bloggies
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036

The nude protests will commence soon!!

Quizzically annoyed,

Earl Fando
Co-Editor and Contributor
The Dictionary of Unfortunate Ideas
http://unfortunateideas.blogspot.com

PS - If these forms of protest are too taxing, simply visit the site an ddrive up the hit counter. I'll tally the numbers and forwasrd YOUR MESSAGE OF PROTEST to the Bloggies.

PPS - I bought a box of gallon size Bloggies today. They're quite sturdy.

PPPS - There is NO PPPS! (Old joke, but I love it so.)

Me again...just a correction on the last post. There were two misspellings at the end. The correct words should have been "twizzler" and "fardles".

Thanks!

Earl Fando
Co-Editor and Contributor
The Dictionary of Unfortunate Ideas
http://unfortunateideas.blogspot.com

Blimey, these aren't Bloggies at all.

Oh, well. The nude protests are still on, not that we could have stopped you lot.

Also, squirrel meat should still be sent to

Squirrel for Bloggies
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036

Transmission ends.

Earl

Nomination

For Best Humor Blog:

and

Best Asian Blog:

The Olive Ream