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Time Magazine’s Top 25 Blogs
- Posted by Beth on April 7th, 2008 filed in Awards, Blogs
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I am Duncan Hunter!
- Posted by Beth on November 9th, 2007 filed in Awards, Blogs, General
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Weblog Awards Voting Guide
The 2007 Weblog Awards are open!
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- Balloon Juice
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- Blue Star Chronicles (an MVRWC co-conspirator!)
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- Jesus’ General
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Lazy-blogging: The Week in Review
2007 Weblog Awards
JIB Awards - Finalist Vote
- Posted by Beth on May 14th, 2007 filed in Awards, Blogs, Cool link of the day, General, Israel, Support this
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Third Annual Jewish-Israeli Blogosphere Awards
- Posted by Beth on April 28th, 2007 filed in Awards, Blogs, General
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Shameless Self Promotion
- Posted by LindaSoG on April 23rd, 2007 filed in Awards, Blogs, General, Guest Posts
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Milbloggies at Milblogging.com
- Posted by Beth on February 23rd, 2007 filed in Awards, Blogs, General, Support the Troops
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Vote for Doug Flutie!
- Posted by Beth on January 21st, 2007 filed in Awards, Blogs, General, Support the Troops, Support this
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Vote for Sgt. Hook!
- Posted by Beth on January 14th, 2007 filed in Awards, Blogs, General, Support the Troops, Support this
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Oh, great. “We” are Time’s Person(s) of the Year.
- Posted by Beth on December 17th, 2006 filed in Awards, Blogs, General, Journalism, Stupid, Video
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Trampling On The Tiara
Cheaters in the Weblog Awards
Go here first, and vote 10. NOW.
The list. (Vote “1″ on everyone else!)
Or rather, the Duncan Hunter of the 2007 Weblog Awards. (I will not claim the title of Tom Tancredo or R*n P*ul, thanks.)
Oh well, at least I’m not Ralph Nader.
I blame Bush. All these years I’ve defended him against ruthless attacks, and did I get an endorsement from him? NO! I’ll show him–I am never voting for him again.
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners, and bushels of rotten tomatoes to the ridiculous whiners!
OK, first: Thanks to those of you who have voted for MVRWC, but really…DON’T. Don’t vote for MVRWC; I want one of the blogs on “our side” to win, and I’m not the one who can or even should win. Instead, I want you to vote for The Jawa Report or Red State.
Now that that’s out of the way, the list:
Post Secret is slaughtering the competition; it’s not even close. I’d be surprised if even Michelle Malkin could catch up with them, but I’d love to at least see her (anyone, really) beat the nausea-inducing Huffington Trash. The only battle here is for second place, and it’s between those two right now.
Jammie Wearing Fool has the Lizardoid vote locked up, but Nice Deb is a fellow moron and gets my vote. (”Morons” meaning those of us who hang out in Ace’s comments, for you non-morons out there.)
The Anchoress, of course. Glenn Reynolds will probably win it, though. Frankly, I don’t even know who the hell some of those people are, and basically it looks like Lindsay Beyerstein has the lib vote just because of her politics. Feh.
Duh. Vote for Ace. I’m guessing if you read this blog, you probably already are voting for Ace anyway.
Eh, I’m not gonna go through the whole list. It could take all day. Here’s a shorter VRWC-approved list, focusing on some of the categories you may have otherwise overlooked.
Tags: 2007 Weblog Awards
Well, MVRWC made it in the finalists again, for the fourth year in a row! Thanks to those who nominated us!
This year, I may throw my votes to (ask you to vote for) one of the other blogs, though. It’s just a question of whether I can convince my allies in the category to do the same. Basically, I’d like for one of my friends to win it. I’m just honored that we’re the finalists. :)
Here’s the list:
Why bother writing when I can just put up a HamNation video? Your news week in review, as told by Peeps!
(Pssst…vote for HamNation here and here! I’ll put up a full voting guide later, when I’m feeling less lazy.)
The nomination period has been extended through Wednesday. You can go here to nominate blogs (cough MVRWC cough). Note that if a blog (cough MVRWC cough) is already nominated, you can just click the (+) button to add your “vote” for that nomination, thereby saving you a few steps.
Don’t forget about the co-conspirators! (Vinnie, LindaSoG, BSC Beth, Holly, etc.!) Also don’t forget about the Cotillion blogs! (Funny related video!)
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Your marching orders for today: VOTE in the Jewish & Israeli Blogosphere Awards!
At the very least, vote in these:
Best Jewish Right Wing Blog - Something…And Half of Something (aka LindaSoG, of course)
Best News and Current Events - Something…And Half of Something
Best Post - Remembering Rachel - Something…And Half of Something
Best Israel Advocacy Blog - Something…And Half of Something
Best Jewish Mega Blog - Something…And Half of Something
Best Jewish Photo/Graphics Blog - Photos by Seawitch
Best Jewish Skepticism Blog - Bacon Eating Atheist Jew
There are a bunch of other categories; where you see Treppenwitz, Yid With Lid, Bagel Blogger, Abba Gav, the Muqata, Israelly Cool, Dry Bones, Shiloh Musings, Meryl Yourish, Kesher Talk, and…who’d I forget??
Anyway, vote for them in the other categories! (Sorry, I couldn’t begin to tell you whom to vote for in the religious categories, although I’ve been told Lazer Beams is the way to go.)
We’re on a Mission From God™
The first round of voting is almost over for the Jewish Israeli Blogosphere Awards (”JIB” awards)–voting ends TOMORROW. Those of you who didn’t know LindaSoG before this week when she’s been filling in here now know her as a co-conspirator, and I want YOU to go vote for her blog! She’s close in all her categories, so we need a strong push to get her in the lead, or at least in the top two slots. The top two or three vote-getters in each category will move on to the final round, and I want Linda in the finals! Actually, I want her to win. I’ve got some others I want you to vote for, too. Everyone in the awards is taking the day away from blogging because of the Shabbat and is asked not to vote on Shabbat, but those of us who aren’t Jewish can vote! (I didn’t include some of the categories because I either don’t know the blogs or I can’t decide yet.)
GET TO VOTING!
Best Overall Blog, Group A:
Something…and Half of Something (Linda!)
For Group B, vote for Treppenwitz, Group C: Sultan Knish, Group D: Bagel Blogger.
Best Large Blog:
Group A: Treppenwitz, Group B: Soccer Dad
Best Small Blog:
Groups A, B, and D, I don’t know. Group C: Yid With Lid (he even has me blogrolled!) :cheese:
Best Group Blog, Group A:
Kesher Talk
Best New Blog, Group A:
What War Zone - the top two are evil liberals, so do your duty!
Best Humor Blog, Group A:
Dry Bones
Best News/Current Events:
Group A: Yid With Lid, Group B: Something…and Half of Something, Group C: Sultan Knish
Best Pro-Israel/Advocacy Blog:
Group A: Meryl Yourish, Group B: Something…and Half of Something, Group C: Dry Bones or Soccer Dad
Best Slice of Life in Israel
Group A: Treppenwitz, Group B: AbbaGav (he’s in a very close race!)
Best Right-Wing Political Blog:
Group A: Something…and Half of Something; Group B: Sultan Knish (or Israelly Cool)
Best Jewish Skepticism:
Bacon Eating Atheist Jew
Best Photo/Graphics:
Another Cotillion sister: Photos by Seawitch !!!
Best of the Rest, Group B:
Bagel Blogger
Best Contribution, Group B:
Israelly Cool
Now, get on over there and vote, and visit some of the blogs, find some new ones. You might just find a new favorite in there!
GO LINDA and SEAWITCH! :luck:
Okay, so…. Beth is kind enough to give me the keys to the place, and I’ve made myself completely at home already.
Voting for the 2007 Jewish & Israeli Blog Awards opened today.
In three years of JIB Awards, for the first time, my humble site, Something… and Half of Something has been nominated, and not just once, but several times, in several categories, including Best Overall, Best News/Current Events, and Best Right Wing Political Blog.
I’m so excited that I’m taking full advantage of Beth’s hospitality to post about it here. Shameless, I know.
Anyways… voting for the finals is now open for everything but best posts. If you are so inclined… you can push me into the finals by voting for me here:
Best Right Wing Political Blog
And… if you’re really in a voting mood, I would make these suggestions in other categories:
Best Jewish Religious Blog - Lazar Beams
Best Slice of Life in Israel Blog - AbbaGav
Best Large Blog - Soccer Dad
Best Small Blog - Yid with a Lid
Best Group Blog - Kesher Talk
Best Photo Blog - Photos By Seawitch
Alas, I am up for awards in the same categories as one of my most very favorite bloggers, The Sultan Knish. So… since we are in separate groups for the same categories, and voting for him won’t hurt me, I voted for him. You can too here and here.
And even if you don’t vote… visit the JIB Awards website to view some very excellent sites. You won’t be sorry.
Voting is now open for Milblogging.com’s annual Milbloggies Awards–go vote for your favorites! Voting CLOSES on February 27th at 8pm EST, so do it now. There are several categories, separated by branch and duty status (i.e. active duty, veteran, spouse, etc.). The only one I’m gonna order you to vote for is Holly Aho, in the civilian category, so do it, maggots! :mrgreen:
While I was over there, I also saw the Milblogopedia, which is a sort of glossary of military terminology. There are only a couple of entries there so far, but you can submit your own to milblogging@gmail.com. Think of the funny ones. I’ve submitted “FIGMO” and “medical hobby shop” and a couple others; not serious stuff.
OK, not actually Doug Flutie, but as Sgt Hook said, he’s “48 yards from the end zone with six seconds left on the clock and down by just one score.”
Mission Impossible? Nah. Make it possible, y’all. If Sgt Hook wins, his plans are to the prize money to finance a trip to Washington D.C. in May for the annual Milblog Conference, with any leftovers going to the Fisher House.
Sgt. Hook is in a race for milbloggers to win $3000!
Why Hook? ‘Cause he’s my bestest milblogger friend, of course, but also because he’s THAT good. He deserves it. Plus, although I can’t find the post that “proves” it, I knew him when I was five years old. ;-) (And that $3K would help him get to the MilBlogs Conference in May, and what kinda MilBlog conference would it be without Sgt. Hook?)
Tags: Time, Person of the Year, media, YouTube, internet, Web 2.0
Oh my God, I’m so honored… :roll:
I dunno. Is this blatant sucking up for readers, or is this just simple-minded celebration of the latest “Me Generation?”
I love teh internets, because I’m a voracious consumer of information. Consumer, I said. Not producer. I still, after two and a half years blogging, feel more than a little weird being as “out there” as I am–which is nothing compared to plenty of other bloggers. These days, everything is “look at me!” It started with Phil Donahue/Geraldo/Oprah, and descended into the trash-TV of Jerry Springer and his contemporaries. Then we got “reality TV,” with Real World, Survivor, and moved on to trash-reality TV (Temptation Island and a million cloned swinger/fake marriage/dating shows). Meanwhile, the internet grew.
I suppose the current stupid fad of video-blogging was only inevitable. People have been figuratively showing their asses on the internet for what, fifteen or twenty years now? I’ve been online since 1989 myself, and while everything is different now, it’s also the same. There are still the same trolls, the same “stars” (I use the term facetiously, obviously), still the same pathetic level of discourse. But now any mental midget can (and does) get their fifteen minutes, at least among a certain crowd. All you have to do is bare enough skin or be outrageous enough, and BOOM! You’re a supahstah! You don’t have to be particularly insightful or intellectually honest, much less intelligent. Everyone has always watched Hollywood celebritard antics, but now it’s immediate and people appear to want to compete with them as well.
Self-respect? Dignity? F–k dignity, I wanna be famous! How else to explain the inexplicable 15 minutes given to Sarah DiMuro, or “Brookers,” or Lord knows, countless other internetards? What about Time’s list of “15 Who Had Their 15 Minutes?” None are people who deserved it. And the blogosphere isn’t so different: we have people who give out private addresses, names, phone numbers–all for the brief thrill of a traffic surge and seeing their names mentioned in the mainstream media. We have other (and sometimes the same) bloggers who know well that sex sells, so they use their (quite negligible) sexuality to draw attention with poorly-”produced” vlogs, knowing that their scribbled rants can’t possibly stand on their own merit. And worse, at least among political bloggers, there’s the endless lament about the “increasing divide” between left and right–as if they couldn’t possibly be contributing to that “divide” and can’t possibly understand what’s causing it. (Newsflash: it’s the loud cacophony of voices semi- and fully-anonymously screaming at one another on the internet.)
Worst of all, the internet has provided an outlet for the worst elements of society: terrorists, pedophiles, murderers, and other criminals can and do document their evil deeds, which is of course a boon to law enforcement (at least there’s that for which we can be thankful), but in general, the ready availability of this filth has coarsened consumers and made them less easy to shock. And who, only a few years ago, would have heard about the vile scum like the 9/11 “truthers” without the internet? Who had heard of Alex Jones or Fred Phelps or any of these certifiably crazy, malevolent fools? We get information, but there’s a whole lot of misinformation out there, too, if not outright lies–and similarly crazy people buy that crap hook, line, and sinker. Where the crazies may have only been internally conflicted before, now they’ve got a plan of action and can create a movement (bowel movement is more accurate a description), and it seeps into the public consciousness when it’s loud enough to get the mainstream media’s attention.
Don’t get me wrong, though. I do not, NOT think the internet should be regulated to exclude most things (I say most, because there is no justification for kiddie porn and similar abominations). I would never say the idiot “truthers” should be shut off the internet, either. I just don’t see why they should be given the attention they get in the mainstream media, just because a whole lot of crazies are yelling. Similarly, the media gives attention to the other trash that’s out there–although they always have, anyway (i.e. trash TV).
I do find it interesting that Time, who’s been the object of derision, if not loathing, from the “new media” (including myself) now that we have the means to speak out in public, would pick “You” as Person of the Year. Surely this isn’t because they’re trying to score points with their critics. Or maybe it is–they’d certainly be correct in believing that many bloggers’ egos are that easily stroked.
At least Time acknowledges the suckitude of “some” (I would say “most”) of it:
Sure, it’s a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
My point is precisely that, and it shouldn’t be fêted with “Person of the Year.” Really, there’s far more crap than there is quality all over the internet. I wouldn’t go crowning “You” as Person of the Year until some of the crap is filtered out over time by forces of supply and demand. People always say “blogs are self-regulating,” as are stupid videos–that crap gets ignored. Well, if you ask me, that hasn’t happened yet. It’s all still too new, oversaturated with certain types of people, with actual normal, sane, polite, self-respecting people being vastly outnumbered and terribly underrepresented as of yet. What kind of TV shows do you think would be on if everyone watching were the people who live on the internet (especially YouTube)? I guarantee it’d be junk even worse than the garbage that’s on TV now.
So thanks, but no thanks, Time. I so don’t consider myself one of the “You” at all, even though I blog, I surf around YouTube pointlessly trying to find something worth three minutes of watching, and most of all, I love all the things I can find that interests me on the internet. But it’s a real love/hate thing for me, and like popular culture in general, it’s a whole lot more “hate” than “love.” If anything, I’m ashamed if I’m part of that “You;” it makes me want to hole up in my house in a mountain of books with the computer and teevee off, rather than be a part of the latest “me” generation.
Maybe I’m just an “old” 40, or maybe (more likely) it’s because I’m a mother, but I do “weep for the future of humanity.”
Beth (Yeah, Right, Whatever)
Oh NO! The MAN kicked our ASS!!!!!
Oh…so solly, Cotillion chicks.
What’s ironic is that I was nominated by a Cotillion chick, and endorsed by a Cotillion chick.
Jockstrap media RULES!!!!!!!!
:mrgreen:
Real nice.
Click to enlarge. Then go vote for LGF.
Then, possibly Raw Story, although I haven’t seen an incriminating thread (yet). Vote for NewsBusters.
And most recently, via the Weblog Awards forum, Michael Berube. (Update: his READERS, not him personally.)
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