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Nominate Me For a 2008 Bloggie

For 8 Years the Weblogs Awards have been giving out bloggie awards for a large number catorgies. The types catorgies are very vast and they have everything from “best asian weblog”, which I would nominated something like Weird Asian News, to “best writing of a weblog”, where I would nominate Shawn Blanc’s blog. They’ve also got some interesting other ones such as the “most humorous weblog” or the “best-kept secret weblog”, which would be a blog like the the FSJ, Fake Steve Jobs Blog I’m not sure how popular the the Weblog awards are, but the awards have been around since 2001 when blogging barely existed. The rules are quite simple and basic:

A “weblog” is defined as a page with dated entries.

The contest is open to any weblogs that existed for a period of time during the year 2007, so weblogs that were discontinued during 2007 are also eligible.

Only one nomination form and one finalist voting form may be submitted per person.

E-mail addresses are required to vote. You must use your own address and confirm the validation e-mail.

If you attempt to submit a second ballot, your first one will be replaced.

In the nomination phase:

URLs are required.

The maximum number of weblogs you may nominate for a category is three (3) for most categories and four (4) for Weblog of the Year.

At least three (3) different weblogs total must be nominated.

There is no limit to the number of categories a weblog may be nominated for.

Nominees have to fit the category they are placed in.

Weblogs may win a category over multiple years a maximum of
three times.

One thing that will turn away many people is the fact that you have to nominate at least 3 blogs per catorgety and 4 blogs for Weblog of the Year. This blog or any of my startups have never won any awards, but it would be really nice if this could be a first. I’m not looking for honour, prestige, wealth or anything like that and those are three things that the Weblogs state that an award won’t give you.

You’ve got until Friday, January 11th to nomiate almost as many blogs as you want. On the following Sunday, the 13 of January the three panels of 50 voters will create a new voting system for the blogs which have the received the most votes in a certain catorgety and from then on the voting for the finalists will begin!

Of course all of the voting is totally optional and you don’t have to vote at all but I would appreciate it. I feel that I would fit into the “new weblog”, “teen weblog”, “computers or technology weblog”, and “canadian weblog” (yes I’m Canadian)! There may be others and it’s completely up to you if you even feel the need to vote.

Stay tuned reading because or subscribe to the RSS feed for more updates as I’ll be posting more blogs to help you nomiate as you need at least 3 for a catorgety.

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