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The winners are now official– save for the Science Blog category, where Climate Audit was around 1200 votes in front at 5pm, but later overtaken by some mechanism that was able to continue registering votes for the second place blog after polls closed. (More on that here if you’re a code geek.) (Update – The final decision in the Science category was to declare a tie between Climate Audit and Bad Astronomy). Click here for the full list. |
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This year, there were 545,446 votes cast in 49 categories over six days – making the Weblogs the largest such competition in existence.
Thanks to everyone who nominated, voted for, and endorsed SDA – again. It’s our fourth consecutive “Best Canadian Blog” win in the Weblog Awards. And congratulations to Raymi (NSFW) for the good-natured competition, and Kathy Shaidle on her third place finish – as a frequent guest blogger here, she deserves an asterisk!
BTW – the winners were announced in Las Vegas, at Blogworld. (I had an invitation, but better things to spend my money on, unfortunately.) Glenn Reynolds has been posting photos.
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Just under an hour is left to cast a final vote for Best Canadian if you haven’t already, but more importantly – remember Climate Audit! for Science blog.
Steve’s site is still holding its own, despite a last minute push by his competition to pool their resources and topple him. Every vote will count, and remember – no cheating, because cheating is for the IPCC!
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Well done, Kate! Congratulations.
Congratulations, Kate. Regrets for not having voted more frequently, but all I got was an empty ballot flash image when I went to the vote-for-best-Canadian page. The choices didn’t seem to load.
Thankfully, this inconvenience didn’t keep you from the win.
Congratulations Kate! I had not known that you’ve won 4 years in a row. I did know about last year’s though.
My feelings are mixed on the Best Science award. It clearly looked to me that Climate Audit had it won at closing, and it appears that sininster forces were at work helping Bad Astronomy.
From reading both blogs, the bloggers themselves were pretty classy about it, but a certain lesser contender lost my respect.
“Raymi is 24. She’s done well coming in 2nd.
She obviously attracts others around her age. They get the content and that’s why they come back.”
I don’t understand her blog, but she has previously won 3 Weblog Awards (2006) so some people must like it.
Previous wins and a good 2nd place showing this uear are also to be congratulated.
Me no dhimmi,
Most people are seeded by the constant din of the MSM. To make matters worse, the unquestioned memes become socially viral.
Unfortunately, few investigate factual history and creed like you have.
Hey, I have questions about Bush, Cheney. But I’m not losing the plot.
If Raymi is smart, she’ll start.
Raymi might dig ghost of a flea.
i lived in new york during 9/11, i heard the first plane hit and i saw the towers crumble, and i suffer from post-traumatic stress now because of it. i spend as little time as possible thinking and talking about “those guys” because i do not enjoy arguing in circles and to be honest, i’m petrified of them.
A tie is declared for the best science blog … whatever that means.
Who are “those guys?”
1. The Skull and Bones Bush regime?
2. Saudi funded, Mohammad inspired, Islam?
3. The Zionist/Mason, Rothschild controlled, Illuminati?
It’s kinda fitting that we have a political solution to the “Best Science” blog.
“blogging is business, i have been at it since i was 17 and i hate people my age”
Well, congratulations there, Raymi.
At 24, I was in my 6th year of running my own business.
Had it not been for the Weblog contest, I never would have known about Pharyngula. Now THAT is something to behold. I wasted a couple of hours following one thread (that’s like confessing to watching porn) and I’ve never seen anything quite like it on the web.
PZ Meyers describes himself as “an associate professor at a small liberal arts college” but his idea of repartee is to tell visitors to “f_ck off”. His lobotomized cheering section is even worse.
For a really good look at what warmists are all about, check out this thread, which had 687 posts when I last looked. Then, try to post the link on other blogs so that as many rational people as possible can see the really ugly face of the apocalyptic warmist religion.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/11/hello_stan_palmer.php
Some here have expressed incredulity at how Raymitheminx could be SDA’s closest competition. Underlying this incredulity is an assumption that SDA offers interesting and insightful content, while Raymitheminx does not. This assumption may be flawed.
Congratulations to Kate on your win. Too bad her goal of surpassing 53.8% of votes cast was denied by someone who’s entire blog is devoted to documenting and musing upon the minutiae of her daily life. That sort of self-indulgent and irrelevant navel-gazing is, as others have noted above, an unfortunate and wasteful pathology of today’s youth — nothing like the self-indulgent and irrelevant echo-chambering that SDA readers prefer to engage in.
Z,
not exactly.
An overwhelming portion of SDA readers are politically active and vote.
We are engaged seriously in issues that affect North America on the levels of our contributions, our civic participation, fielding and supporting candidates, and grassroots activism.
So many of these subjects are not academic to us; they are serious matters that we engage with our life energy, our money, and our participation.
And on a personal note, as a Vietnam vet, I can assure you that I would have loved to know that there were blogs like Kates supporting us when we were in harm’s way. I presume that a lot of active-duty military in Canada and the US appreciate her efforts.
I don’t have anything against raymi’s blog. Many of us have kids and grandkids her age, and I’m sure we’re as bemused by her as our parents were by us. The one thing I would point out to her age group in respect to us is that we are not the World War II generation. We are the generation that actively confronted the civil rights era and bought Mick Jagger records.
The best way to curb global warming is to curd all that HOT AIR comming from the mouths of various eco-wackos like GREENPEACE,ENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE FUND,SIERRA CLUB and the others and especialy AL GORE the king of hot air and wild imagination
Greg in Dallas: An overwhelming portion of SDA readers are politically active and vote. We are engaged seriously in issues that affect North America on the levels of our contributions, our civic participation, fielding and supporting candidates, and grassroots activism. So many of these subjects are not academic to us; they are serious matters that we engage with our life energy, our money, and our participation.
In her real life, Raymitheminx could likewise be politically active, engaged in civic participation, involved in grassroots activism, etc. This would all be worthy of praise, but it wouldn’t take away from the fact that her blog is self-referential and indulgent. Hence, navel-gazing.
In similar fashion, it may indeed be true that the majority of SDA readers are deeply engaged with serious issues in their own lives, but insofar as this engagement happens, it happens outside of SDA. On this blog, in the comments section, there is seldom any genuine political dialogue or debate; instead, there is typically only agreement, partisanship, and insults. Hence, echo chamber.
(I had an invitation, but better things to spend my money on, unfortunately.)
Ack! Worst reason ever. Please. Just ask, then insist, then demand, and your readers will respond. Tell us how much is needed and keep us posted. There’s next year to plan for.