2006 Weblog Awards endorsements

Posted by: ST on December 11, 2006 at 3:18 pm

2006 Weblog AwardsI have a few blogs I’d like to endorse in the 2006 Weblog Awards competition. There will be some categories I don’t post endorsements for, as I am not familiar with every category and some categories I’m familiar with I’ve never heard of the nominees.

Before I get to that, though, I’d like to encourage everyone to vote for yours truly in the best of the top 251-500 blogs category. I’m getting smoked, and I know I have more readers than the votes that have been cast so far for me. So get to votin’, ya’ll! Send the link to family and friends if you’re so inclined. Show me some of that vote love. :) Remember, you can vote once a day each day, until the end of the competition, which is a minute before midnight Friday.

Ok, here goes on the endorsements. Links to the categories are listed on this page.

Categories

Best Blog: Michelle Malkin
Best New Blog: Hard to pick just one, so I’ve been voting for one one day, and another the next: Blue Crab Boulevard, Jules Crittenden, and Hang Right Politics. All excellent new blogs.
Best Individual Blog: Going between Anchoress and Dan Riehl. I’m currently sick over that category, though, as Glenn Greenwald is in the lead. Bleh. (Update 12/12/06: Oops – my bad. I misread the numbers last night. I see James Lileks is in the lead, not GG. Whew!)
Best Humor Blog: Scrappleface
Best Comic Strip: Day By Day and Cox and Forkum
Best Online Community: Free Republic
Best Conservative Blog: Hugh Hewitt
Best Centrist Blog: The Moderate Voice

Topic Area Categories

Best Media Blog: Newsbusters
Best Military Blog: Blackfive
Best Law Blog: The Volokh Conspiracy
Best LGBT Blog: Gay Patriot

Arts & Letters Categories

Best Video Blog: Hot Air
Video Of The Year: MKH: Get out the vote

International Categories

Best Canadian Blog: Small Dead Animals
Best UK Blog: EU Referendum
Best Middle East or Africa Blog: Iraq the Model
Best Australia or New Zealand Blog: Tim Blair
Best Latino, Caribbean, or South American Blog: Babalu

TTLB Ecosystem Based Categories

Best of the Top 250 Blogs: Just One Minute and Stop The ACLU
Best of the Top 251 – 500 Blogs: Ahem ;)
Best of the Top 501 – 1000 Blogs: Blogs Of War
Best of the Top 1001 – 1750 Blogs: Willisms
Best of the Top 1751 – 2500 Blogs: Cathy’s World
Best of the Top 3501 – 5000 Blogs: Another Rovian Conspiracy
Best of the Top 5001 – 6750 Blogs: Gina Cobb and The Bodie Specter
Best of the Rest of the Blogs (8751+): Free Frank Warner

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9 Responses to “2006 Weblog Awards endorsements”

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  1. Good luck in your category! Remember that it’s an honor just to be nominated. I say that only because I wasn’t nominated.

  2. Gina Cobb says:

    Thanks for your kind word of support!

  3. Yax K'uk Mo' says:

    On the bright side:

    1) You’re not getting smoked. Now, The Daily Brief, they’re getting smoked…

    2) Right now, you’re in fifth place…even if you don’t move up in the standings, you can say that you’re “255th of the Top 251-500 Blogs.” That’s still pretty impressive! That sounds even more impressive than saying you’re “250th of the Top 250 Blogs!”

  4. Chris says:

    You know you’ve got my votes. But where is your selection of your favorite liberal blog? ;) I’m casting for skippy the bush kangaroo.

  5. Dana says:

    OK, voted for you once more! But I have to vote for Patterico for best conservative blog.

  6. Jay says:

    Thank you for the endorsement. I should do this too.

  7. Pete says:

    Thanks for the props, Sis! You are truly a class act.
    As always, you got my vote.

  8. Marshall Art says:

    So many of those blogs I never visit, except when linked to it from blogs I DO visit. Certainly some are very good, but I’m sentimental about the ones I routinely visit, and spend too much time doing so to add any more. I certainly cast a vote for our lovely hostess as often as possible and amongst those good ones in other categories, I’ve decided to first vote for the babes, then, if there’s no babe (that I’m aware of) I’ll try to remember the times I was encouraged to visit by someone I trust, like Sis. When there’s so many good ones, I feel the babe factor is extremely important. Of course I don’t visit cooking blogs and some of the other categories, thus I don’t vote. I wouldn’t vote in the gay category even if I had a favorite (in a know thy enemy kind of way) because I won’t do anything to promote one and validate their existence in the mainstream in any way. It’s sort of like talking to Syria. It gives them credibility. Unless of course it was a lesbian site run by a babe, then maybe. Superficial? Perhaps. But the awards mean little to me and my favorites, such as Sister Toldjah, will always be the creme de la creme to me. (See JFKerry for translation)

  9. Matt Brown says:

    You’re picking the Mod Voice over Althouse for Best Centrist? I may have to stop visiting here….