After four consecutive years of topping the Weblog Awards for Best Canadian Blog, SDA has been bumped up a category, and selected as a finalist against a very tough US field for Best Conservative Blog.
Victor Davis Hanson
RedState
Ace of Spades
Power Line
Eject, Eject, Eject!
Plumb Bob Blog
Michelle Malkin
American Thinker
Blue Collar Muse
small dead animals
Little Green Footballs
Right Wing Nut House
The Next Right
Atlas Shrugs
This year's "Best Canadian Blog" nominees include some of my favourite names;
Dust My Broom
The Canadian Sentinel
We Move to Canada
Ezra Levant
Buckdog
Calgary Grit
five feet of fury
The Torch
Attack of the Redneck Mommy
Abandoned Stuff
The full list of nominated blogs is here. Many thanks to all of you who nominated SDA across several categories (including Best Blog). Voting begins January 5th - prepare to be mobilized!
Update - Kevin Aylward;
There are two sites I do want to mention: The Club For Growth and small dead animals. These two sites had won their categories (Best Business Blog and Best Canadian Blog, respectively) for three years running by pretty large margins. In effect this year we've put them in the "Hall of Fame" by clearing them out of the finalist slate in those categories. Were they finalist again in those categories they likely would have swamped the competition yet again. To us this seemed contrary to one of the goals of The Weblog Awards - for participating sites to have fun with the competition. The prospect of going up a site going for a fourth win in a row could dampen the enthusiasm of the other finalists in those categories. Both sites will be honored (in a manner yet to be determined) on the respective poll page they've been retired from. small dead animals was moved up to the Best Conservative Blog category and Club For Growth was not a finalist in another category this year.
How the hell did leftdog get in there? Does anybody read that stuff?
tough sledding.
But we are there for you Kate.
Cal2
There's hope. I have just about a week to find a way to take down Charles Johnson's server....
Congats Kate on a job well done.
Couldn't help but notice leftdogs complete lack of grace in the comment section.
Kate, Ezra, Mark, et al the others who speak up publicly and fearlessly to preserve our freedom of speech from those who seek to crush it - see what happens where totalitarians have the powers that our HRCs and others would like to have?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1103029/British-missionary-couple-sentenced-years-hard-labour-criticising-Gambian-government.html
Kate,
May I suggest, since there will be many visitors to your site, put a picture of your goalie painting on the side with a "Missing" or "Have you seen this picture".
I am sure someone, somewhere has seen it.
Heh, if you can get a guy to Vegas.....
Oh dear!
I feel a bit embarrassed.
I just sent a msg saying wtf were they doing leaving sda off best Canadian.
I'll vote early and vote often.
Congratulations!
Oh, and thanks for posting the links etc. I just discovered
http://www.nocastro.com/matado.ram
It's almost like the People Getting Sued by R. W. Awards!
LGF? Crazy, and more people hate Charles these days than love him, and will vote for Anyone But
Eject? Overrated
Ace of Spades? Too much free range projectile testosterone
PowerLine? So 2006
Kate's real competition is Malkin, American Thinker and Atlas Shrugs, whose fans are very loyal and motivated.
Really nice to see The Torch on there. Deserved.
Will someone please lend these guys some extra servers for the duration of the contest? Jeez, we go through this every single year.
Congratulations, Kate! And good luck.
You can't be in both categories?
A win in both! That would be nice.
Kate, if you figure out how to take down LGF's server, would you pass it along to me? There are fourteen entries, and even if all 137 of my readers vote for me (Plumb Bob Blog,) I think I have to take down 13 servers in order to win the category. If you'll share with me, I'll only take down 12. Then you'll win, and it'll be my fault.
It's a dirty deal, but that's life when you're taking on the likes of Malkin and Power Line and you've got a technorati ranking of 27.
Oh, well, forget it. It's just nice to be nominated. Good luck, and nice to meet you.
All right! I'm on again!
Good luck against our American conservative buddies, Kate!
Your up there with the Top boy's & girls. That in itself is an accomplishment. Shows you keep good company. Will vote as much as they allow. With the competition of this caliber you will need them from us all. With the American blogs with an audience 10 times the population here.
Well done Kate.
The stubblejumper versus the yanks?
Go Kate!
You're in the Bigs now Missy....
I shall send my 11 winged monkeys to do battle with the Yanks.
Congrats on moving up to the bigs. Some serious competition there. Only makes ya better!!
And a small admission of reading coprehension on my part. All the time I have been coming here and I never noticed that "small dead animals" was not capitalized.............
Very well-deserved Kate. In many ways I find your blog much more compelling - cannot miss a day- reading than your American competition which frankly all seem to be more bland and harder to read.
We Move to Canada
LOL,
We moveDDDDDDD!