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Let me make the first nominations.

Best blog - Atrios. Not even close, he deserves it.

Best writing - this year, Hullabaloo. While I love Jeanne D'Arc, it's time to show Digby some love.

I'd like to nominate the collaborative blog "Killing Goliath" as best new blog and best group blog. Thanks.

Best writing - Tbogg. Always funny, always sharp.

There needs to be a category for "Best of Snark." Tbogg (http://tbogg.blogspot.com/) and "World 'o Crap" (http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/) come to mind. They are both coffee-splattering funny. But perhaps that would fit into the "Most Humorous Blog" category. Although I think Snark is a sub-category.

I believe WoC could be my nomination to "Best New Blog" also.

I hereby nominate Orcinus' The Political and the Personal for Best Post

Group Blog: http://liberalcoalition.blogspot.com/

Best Writing: (besides Body and Soul) http://www.billmon.org/

Best Single Issue Blog: http://dailykos.com/

Best Blog: (I can't do it. There are too many!)

Best: Atrios.

Best Writing: Body and Soul. Digby is very good, but I think Jeanne puts out the best writing on the most consistant basis.

Best Single Issue: Talk Left. Thought I am a law geek, so that probably colors my perception.

Most humorous: Tbogg, with Pandagon a close second.

Best Design: Road to Surfdom Its easy to read and easy to find thngs, and doesn't stick to traditional templates.

Best Post: Body and Soul: http://bodyandsoul.blogspot.com/2003_03_01_bodyandsoul_archive.html#91440816

Best Series: Slacktivist, for his(her? Actually, I have no idea if slacktivist is male or female) series on the Left Behind books.

Best New Blog: Corrente

Humorous Post: http://www.thepoorman.net/archives/002107.html#002107

Best Group: Crooked Timber

I'd like to nominate Tom Burka for Most Humorous, and Open Source Politics for Group Blog. I'd also like to nominate myself for the special Snowball's Chance in Hell award. :)

How about "Best conservative blog"? There are so many bad ones, I'd like to show a little appreciation to the rare few who demonstrate some style and grace in the ways they disagree with us.

my nominations are rather obvious, but why not.

Best Blog: Talking Points Memo, CalPundit
Group Blog: Crooked Timber. Which may or may not qualify as a New Blog.
Best Writing: Kevin Drum of Calpundit. Kieran Healy, Ted Barlow and/or Henry Farrell of CT.
Most Humorous Blog: Pandagon.

I'd add a Best Reporting category which Josh Marshall might run away with--but I'd love to know if more lefty bloggers do reporting. Have to think more about best post. Best Guest Poster: Meteor Blades of Daily Kos.

I've got a new blog, which is way too new to be considered & shared with a centrish author and a rightish author--but I'll post it anyway, because we need more lefty commenters, dang it.
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com

My vote for funniest post would be d-squared's
Heavy Paratroopers (actually it's not so much the funniest post as the funniest - or best - comments thread, in case you might consider starting a category for that).

Would Baghdad Burning (http://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com/) qualify as "Best Single Issue Blog"? Or maybe "Best Series"? "Best Writing"?

Well, then, how about "Best Non-USA Blog"? Baghdad Burning (http://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com/)
She has to be in this somewhere.

best group: crooked timber
best writing: jeanne again
best blog: jeanne

Best Blog: Calpundit
Best Writing: Busy Busy Busy
Humorous Blogg: TBogg
Best single issue: Does David Corn count as a blog?

Hey, how about a category for best blog commenter?

There's a guy out there going by the name 'The Ghost of Bill Hicks,' and he's insanely funny and incisive, just like Hicks was.

Best Blog:
Daily Kos/Atrios tie

Best New Blog:
World o' Crap

Best group blog:
Crooked Timber

Most Humorous Blog:
Pandagon/TBogg tie

Best writing:
Billmon

Okay, so my choices display a shocking lack of originality. Sue me.

How about a category for best place to go for an argument? Best comments?

A couple of suggestions for additional categories, to do with as you see fit.

"Best Small Blog" This would be for bloggers who have less than, say, 200 hits a day. Personally, I'd LOVE to know about more of these--but as the blogosphere expands exponentially, it's almost impossible to find them. If there were five or ten in this category, chances are I'd have seen only a couple and would delight in knowing about the others.

"Best Analysis" Maybe this is the same as your "best writing" category. But there's a big difference between bloggers who post links and bloggers who analyze the news. You might want to eliminate pros, or Josh Marshall will win with 92% of the vote.

Oh, and I second "Best Conservative Blog," and presumptuously nominate Just One Minute.

While I have blatantly suggested that I be nominated in the best series category, even I think that the clear winner in this section should be David Neiwert's "Orcinus", for publishing the excellent series, "Rush Newspeak and Fascism."

Best Blog: Daily Kos

Best Blog: (tie) Atrios/CalPundit
Best Writing: Orcinus
Best Post: Max Sawicky-UN-Tenable (http://maxspeak.org/gm/archives/00001588.html)
Best Series: Mark Kleiman (L'Affaire Valerie Plame)
Best Single Issue: Tim Lambert
Best Group: Crooked Timber
Most Humorous: TBogg
Most Humorous Post: d-squared (any of the SSdB posts)
Best Design: (tie)TPM/MattYglesias
Best New: Sadly, No
Best Special Effects: (tie) Blah3/uggabugga

Best Blog: Atrios/Daily Kos
Best Post: Pandagon, Twenty Most Annoying Conservatives of 2003

Best: Atrios.

Best Writing: Digby

Best Single Issue: Talk Left.

Most humorous: Tbogg

Best Design: The Liquid List

Best Series: Talking Points Memo. Take your pick

Best New Blog: TJ Griffin

Best Group: The Liquid List

Could we change these to The Jim Zorn Awards? Just wondering.

Best blog: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/

Best post (my own!): http://www.seewhy.blogspot.com/2003_11_02_seewhy_archive.html#106795967024448360

Best new group blog: http://www.crookedtimber.org

Most Humorous Post (at least it made me laugh a lot): http://examinedlife.typepad.com/johnbelle/2003/11/dead_right.html

Best Blog
DailyKos

Best Writing
BILLMON

Best Post
PREZNIT GIV ME TURKEE

Best Series
GET YOUR WAR ON

Best Group Blog
THE LEFT COASTER

Most Humorous Blog
NEAL POLLACK

Most Humorous Post
PREZNIT GIV ME TURKEE

Best Design
DailyKos

best blog: atrios

best group: corrente

best writing: tbogg

Best New Blog: John Walchak's TrogWatch

http://trogwatch.blogspot.com/

How about the Andy Pettite award, in honor of the leftie that broke free from the evil Pinstripe Empire?

I nominate myself for all categories, although I'm not a group, I'm not funny, I don't post in series, my writing is abyssmal, noone's heard of me, my design is Blogspot chic, it missed the "new" cut-off by one month, it doesn't focus on a single issue, and there are no special effects.

Hey, it worked for "Shakespeare in Love."

Most humorous post: the 20 most annoying conservatives, at http://www.pandagon.net/archives/00002229.htm

Best writing: too hard to decide. Body & Soul. Orcinus. Making Light.

Best group: Crooked Timber.

Best new: Corrente.

You know, you do need more and more specific categories, otherwise the same people will just win year after year. It would also be good to see some real criteria, rather than just which name gets shouted out the most -- again, because otherwise it'll always just be the same old popular (even if deservedly so) faces.

So is it an "official" ballot if we post it here? Or should we "send" it to you?

Best Blog
Brad de Long
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/

Best Writing
Three-toed Sloth
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/

Best Post
In Defense of Al Sharpton
http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/000719.shtml

Best Series
The Minimum Wage series
http://www.nathannewman.org/log/
(linked on right)

Best Single Issue Blog
Juan Cole (Iraq, more or less)
http://www.juancole.com/

Best Group Blog
Demagogue
http://demagogue.blogspot.com/

Most Humorous Blog
Brian Leiter
http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter/
&
Uppity Negro
http://www.uppity-negro.com

Most Humorous Post
Twenty Most Annoying Conservatives of 2003
Pandagon
http://www.pandagon.net/archives/00002229.htm

Best Design
are there any well-designed blogs?!

Best New Blog
Chun
http://chun.typepad.com/chun/
(if the cut off date were a couple of months earlier, I might have gone with Brian's Study Breaks at http://bjulrich.blogspot.com/)

Best Special Effects
Numerous photo series, including a set from the Feb 15 march.
Hiphop Music
http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000002.html

Best Blog: dailykos/atrios tie

I never get nominated for these things, so I nominate myself, for Humorous Post:

And Now, a Paid Commercial Announcement from Bristol Myers Squibb

And for series, my Roy Moore reportage:

Get Your Moore On

You may absolutely not re-name them the Andy Pettite awards, though I'm glad he broke free.

You could have a rule that you're ineligible to repeat. I don't know if that's a good idea or not; it depends on your purposes.

Best Single Issue: Agnosticism/Atheism http://atheism.about.com (But there is more than just atheism there, so maybe it doesn't fit?)

Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber http://www.crookedtimber.org/

Best Blog: Kos and Atrios are both great, but Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo has become the essential read of the day.

Best blog is either Atrios or Nathan Newman.

Best series, no questions asked, is David Neiwert's series about fascism.

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Best Blog: Atrios/TPM
Best Writer: Digby
Best Post: David Neiwert's "The Political and the Personal"
Best Single Issue: I don't know if this counts, but Somerby's dogged documentation of the insipidness of our "deeply dysfunctional press corps" at the Daily Howler is invaluable
Best Series: David Neiwert's Exegesis on Fascism (http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_08_03_dneiwert_archive.html#106036545440271111)
Best Group: Panda goodness at Pandagon
Most Humorous/Snarkiest: TBogg
Best New Blog: Very Very Happy
Best Special Effects: Uggabugga

and I gotta second the vote for Ghost of Bill Hicks for best commenter (funniest commenter category?)--that dog cracks me the hell up.

Best: Atrios, Daily Kos

Best Writing: Talking Points Memo, Orincus

Best Single Issue: Daily Kos

Most humorous: Tbogg

Best Group: Pandagon

Most Humorous Post:Preznit give me Turkee (Atrios)

I second Generik's nomination for Trogwatch as best new blog! Excellent writing, thoughtful commentary, with an emphasis on critical thinking and the media.

http://trogwatch.blogspot.com/

Best New Blog: Steve Gilliard's News Blog

Best Post: "I'm a Fighting Liberal", Steve Gilliard (see above), 12/3/03 (sorry, no permalink).

Best Writing: Orcinus - too heavy!
Funniest: USNDemVet - she is brutally funny.

Best Series: Talking Points Memo for Josh's coverage of the Valerie Plame affair.

Best Single Issue Blog: Riverbend (also could be nominated for Best New)

Humorous Post: Blogotrol, from Very Very Happy.

Most humorous post: Atrios-Preznit giv me turkee
Best writing: Body and Soul
Best Blog: Calpundit
Most humorous blog: Pandagon with Corriente a close second
Best post: Billmon and the WMD quotes

Most humorous: Instapundit. I mean it's got to be some sort of sick joke, right? Right?

Best Blog: I can't decide between Daily Kos (better for all the primary goodness) and Atrios (good for everything else).

Best Post & Best Writing: Orcinus' "The Political and the Personal".

Best Group Blog: pandagon

Most Humorous Post: Preznit giv me turkee(Atrios)

I'm gonna be laughing about that one for awhile.

Anyone preserving the legacy of Bill Hicks gets a huge thumbs up from me as well.

Best: Atrios
Humor: TBogg
Funniest post: http://www.thepoorman.net/archives/001909.html
Best writing: Billmon
Best group: Pandagon
Best single issue: SullyWatch
Series: The unending series of posts that is Josh Marshall's talkingpointsmemo.com
Design: Democratic veteran
Special effects: uggabugga
Best blog with cat's name in title: Slyblog

I agree with add a best conservative. My vote: Drezner.

Best New Blog: Steve Gillard

Best Blog - DKOS
Best post - Orcinus's personal and political
Best group blog - Crooked Timber
Best series - busybusybusy, shorter series

Best blog: dailykos

Best New Blog: Steve Gillard

Best Single Issue: Juan Cole-Informed Comment

Sorry didn't mean to vote twice.

Too late to nominate or second them, so I'll third Dave Neiwert for both best post - The Personal and The Political - and best series - Rush Newspeak and Fascism.

Best Writing/Best Blog: Talking Points Memo

Best Blog- Atrios
Best New Blog- World O Crap (check my url--not my blog, btw, just a favorite of mine!)
Most Humorous-ooooh toughie. tbog and world o crap
Most Humorous Post-- The Schwarzenegger Project Two: HercInNewYork--

http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/stories/2003/11/22/theSchwarzeneggerProject2HercInNewYork.html

And I gotta go think about the other ones....choices, choices.

I'll second (third) Gilliard for best new blog, add a redundant vote for Atrios as best new blog, put in an equally redundant good word for "preznit give me turkee," and concur that Riverbend (and what about Salam Pax, people?) have got to be recognized for *something*.

that should have been "Atrios for best blog," of course.

busybusybusy for most humorous.
I am the Queen of Sheba.

First of all, I would like to second the request for Best Comment/Commentator for those folks who blog via comments only. I also would like to see a category for best Regional Blog, for blogs that focus (narrowly or not) on a particular region, like South Knox Bubba or Off The Kuff.

BEST BLOG:
Daily Kos
CalPundit
TBOGG
Eschaton
Talking Points Memo

Nominated because these are my essential daily visits, except that TBOGG doesn't post on the weekend, so I have to go back and re-read him on Sat & Sun.

BEST WRITING:
TBOGG
World O'Crap
Pandagon
Busy Busy Busy
Orcinus
Digby
Body & Soul

The first 4 I nominated because they are consistently so funny and so sharp. The next 2 because they really make me think, and of course Jeanne gets extra points because she just writes beautifully, full stop.

BEST POST:
Pandagon - 20 Most Annoying Conservatives
PLA - gosh, hard to pick one! I will have to come back to this one after I go back and re-read some really great posts.

BEST SERIES:
Tim Lambert on John Lott

BEST SINGLE ISSUE:
Will have to come back to this one

BEST GROUP BLOG:
Crooked Timber (even though I only understand about 2/3s of what they are writing about.)
Pandagon (it qualifies, right?)

MOST HUMOROUS:
TBOGG
World O'Crap
Pandagon

MOST HUMOROUS:
Will have to get back on this one.

BEST DESIGN:
Will have to get back on this one.

BEST NEW BLOG:
World O'Crap

best writing - Steve Gilliard
most humous post - yeah, "preznit give me turkee" - atrios

Best blog: Bartcop. I love Atrios, but Bart is out there firing away from the gut every day. Take no prisoners, Bart!

Also deserving of nomination: the Daily Howler and Talking Points Memo.

Media Whores Online would be in the mix if it hadn't gone on hiatus every other month.

Best single-issue blog: Daily Kos.

Best blog: Tough choice, as there are some great ones out there, but Atrios is still the king.

Best Writing: Teresa Nielsen Hayden. If she's not political enough for consideration, then I nominate Kevin Drum.

Best Post: I tend not to remember individual posts all that well, but David Neiwert's The Political and the Personal stayed with me.

Best series: For once, I'm going to toot my own horn and nominate my coverage of the Texas redistricting saga.

Best single-isse blog: Liberal Oasis.

Best group blog: Crooked Timber.

Most humorous blog: Pete Von Der Haar's A Perfectly Cromulent Blog. If he's not political enough, then TBogg.

Most humorous post: So, So Sad, by Andrew Northrup. Or his Shorter Right-Wing Punditry's Reaction To The Valerie Plame Affair. Can't have enough Gollum, you know.

Best design: The Daily Kos.

Best new blog: Colorado Luis.

Best special effects: Uggabugga.

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: Billmon
Best Post: Billmon WMD quotes
Best Series: Riverbend
Best New Blog: Antiwar.com blog
Most Humorous Blog: Atrios
Most Humourous post: Atrios- preznit give me turkey (Dec.4/03)
Best special effects: Atrios- press behaviour contract

if I didn't make a coding mistake here, it will be a miracle.

Best Blog: dKos
Best Design: dKos

I think we need to add a first runner up. There are simply too many blogs deserving of recognition to limit each category to one. I would even go for Gold Silver and Bronze medals! Anyway, my choices:

Best Series: Mark Kleiman (L'Affaire Valerie Plame)

Best Series Runner-up: Josh Marshall on Dick Cheney is a pox on all of us

Best Blog: Atrios

Best Blog Runner up: Josh Marshall

Best Writing: Josh Marshall

Best Writing Runner up: Calpundit

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Single Issue: DailyKOS
Best Writing: TPM
Most Humorous/Snarky: Tie between Pandagon, tbogg, thismodernworld (tom tomorrow), and Barcop's site (only if you count that... thing... as a blog).

Other Favorites that I can't think of a category for: Calpundit, Counterspin, and busy^3

Best Writing - Billmon! Billmon!! Billmon!!!
Most Humorous Post - Preznit give me turkee - Atrios. Tee hee - it makes me giggle just to think about it now!

Best Design : The Talent Show
Best Post : Bubbling Bliss & Beautiful Science
Most Humorous Post : George, you dirty little bitch!

Best Post -- the Cogent Provacatuer ( http://cogenteur.blogspot.com/ ) -- Operation Desert Snipe

Best Blog: Still Atrios

Best Writing: Billmon at Whiskey Bar hand down

Best Post: Calpudit/Matthew Yglesias (Matt's come a long way)

Best Series: Josh Marshall on Dick Cheney's misleadership adventures

Best Group Blog: TAPPED/En Banc divided between these guys.

Most Humorous Blog: TBogg

Most Humorous Post:The Poor Man, for this post:

October 29, 2003

“Atrios”
Author and Publisher of “Eschaton” Weblog

Dear "Atrios",

This firm represents Gollum, formerly Smeagol of Middle Earth. You recently stole the precious. Such an action constitutes tricksyness in the first degree, and we hates you.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey J. Upton

Best Design: Cooked Timber/CalPudit

Best New Blog: The Whiskey Bar

Best Special Effects:?(I haven't seen lately).

Another Best Series:Kevin Drum /Calpundit Friday cat blogging.

Best Blog - Kevin Drum, Josh Marshall

Best Writing - Daniel Davies, Kieran Healy, Josh Marshall, Matthew Yglesias

Best Single Issue Blog - Brad DeLong

Best Group Blog - Crooked Timber

Best Design - Not Geniuses

Best New Blog - Chun the Unavoidable, En Banc

By the way, I'd like to second the motion for a Best Reporting Category, for which I'd also nominate Josh Marshall.

I think it would also be nice to have a "Best Young Blogger" award (bloggers under 25?). For that I'd nominate Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, and Jesse Taylor.

Best Blog - "Right Christians" by Allen Brill
Best Writing - Orcinus
Best Single Post - "The Political and the Personal" http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_11_23_dneiwert_archive.html#106970848149574609

Best Blog: Atrios

Best Writing: Billmon; Digby; Tbogg; Roger Ailes; Calpundit (5-way tie; can't make up my mind)

Best Series: Atrios ("Talk Like O'Reilly Day")

Best Single Issue: Sullywatch

Most Humorous: Tbogg; World O'Crap (tie)

Best New Blog: The Left Coaster

I thought my series of posts on those astro-turf letters from our soldiers in Iraq were pretty good.

Best blog: Atrios and dKos tie
Best series: either Tim Lambert (does John Lott count as a "series" or an "issue"? or Orcinus on fascism
Best single issue: Riverbend
Best writing: Billmon

Almost forgot...I said back in January that we should give Billmon the award for "Best Post of 2003" for this absolute classic.

Frankly, I see no reason to change my opinion.

Since this is just for nominations, I want to be sure that Josh shows up in all the categories which apply:

best: Talking Points Memo

best writing: Talking Points Memo

best design: Talking Points Memo

And, for best post, Steve Gilliard's "I'm a fighting liberal": http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2003_11_30_stevegilliard_archive.html and scroll until you see "I'm a fighting liberal"

Best Writing: Fred Clark of Slacktivist http://slacktivist.typepad.com/

Funniest post: The Poor Man's "Shorter Right-Wing Punditry's Reaction to the Valerie Plame Affair: An Internal Dialogue" (aka "Gollum the Republican") http://www.thepoorman.net/archives/002107.html

Best special effects: South Knox Bubba's fun with Photoshop http://southknoxbubba.net/skblog/

Best Issue Blog: Dan Kennedy's media watch at Boston Phoenix

Funniest Blog: WTF is it now

Best Post: Presnit giv me turkee

Best writing: Billmon/Calpundit (tie)

Best Design: Kos (no contest)

Best Group Blog -- DKos

Best Group Blog Runner Up -- Corrente

Best Series -- Bush Fedayeen Watch, Hesiod

Best Post: Daniel Davies' "The Economics of Pounds Canto 45": http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2003_02_23_d-squareddigest_archive.html

Oh yea:

Best new blog which shamelessly steals from Dave Barry: The Biomes Blog (www.biomescenter.com)

Seriously, what's the difference between best blog and best writing? For me a blog is as good as its writing.

So Slacktivist gets my vote for best blog, too.

What happened to the Best Commentor category? As I recall Digby won last year and went on to have one of the best blogs going (my pick for best writing BTW).
Best post? Orcinus' "The Political and the Personal".
Humor: Pandagon/TBogg.
Best new blog: The Right Christian (Give 'em hell, Allen).
Best blog: Atrios, but he won last year. DKos is one of my favs but I have to vote for Calpundit for best blog if for no other reason than I've been able to send my conservative friends (the one's who will still talk to me) there and Kevin's doing a good job of bringing them slowly away from the dark side.

As to best non-blogger commenter (providing the category returns): Ton's of good options. "Hunter" has returned after some absence. I love reading Hunters posts. "Dr. Pedant" is always excellent. "Robert M. Jeffers" seems new and is reliably smart. "MattB" and "BlakNo1" stand out, as do "Phoenix Woman" and "agitpropre". "cosmic grappler" and "Holden Caulfield" are wonderful commentors and always make me laugh, as does "dave," but one name does indeed keep rising to the top of my mental "Dude, get a blog" list: John Isbell.

There's more I know I'm forgeting but these stand out.

Any list of humorous blogs absolutely must include BartCop - www.bartcop.com. And once on the list, count BartCop with my vote!

Best blog: Atrios
Best single issue blog: Daily Kos
Best writing: Calpundit, Kevin Drum
Best new blog: August J. Pollak at www.overboard.com
(I do believe he's new, no?)
Most humourous post: The "Preznit giv me turkee" sheet at Atrios. (damned, that was funny)

I think a category for "best commentor" should be included as well. Several people could vie for that title...snr has had some brilliant comments, along with The Ghost of Bill Hicks (and a sympathy vote for w00t as well, just cause we all need boobies and cups to pee into every now and again).

My favorite blog writer is Hesiod,for a variety of topics.
Most humorous is TBOGG he keeps me laughing with is writing and his pictures

Best Blog

CalPundit
Brad DeLong
Atrios

Best Writing

Billmon
Jeanne D'Arc
CalPundit

Best Post

I'm going to bashfully suggest my post on MEChA
Billmon's collection of WMD quotes through the ages

Best Series

I'm still very proud of Lightbulb Joke Week. (But it might be more appropriate for Humorous Post; you be the judge.)
Mark A. R. Kleiman's "L'Affaire Valerie Plame"

Best Single Issue Blog

The Bloviator: health care
Tim Lambert's Deltoid: John Lott

Most Humorous Blog

The Poor Man
Alicublog
Neal Pollack's The Maelstrom (May be disqualified due to discontinuation.)

Most Humorous Post

It's just a one-liner, but it had me in stitches
"The Cornier Too" by Andrew Northrup
"The Science of Deception" Tech Central Station parody, also by Andrew Northrup, bow tie afficionado

Best Design

Electrolite. I like the Sidelights column

Best New Blog

Alicublog
Baghdad Burning

Best Special Effects

Uggabugga

My nominations:

• Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber
• Best New Blog: The Decembrist
• Best Writing: Slacktivist
• Best Single Issue Blog: Blog for America
• Best Design: Crooked Timber
• Most Humorous Blog: Norbizness
• Most Humorous Post: 20 Most Annoying Conservatives of 2003, at Pandagon
• Best Series: Off the Kuff, for coverage of the Texas redistricting controversy
• Best Blog: Talking Points Memo

Oh, and if you do have a "Best Right-of-Center" category, I'd vote for Daniel Drezner.

Best Blog -- John Lott's Blog

Best Writing -- John Lott

Most Humorous Post? Without a doubt The Poor Man's post about Donald Luskin and Atrios, complete with fake letter from Luskin's lawyer, which I still know by heart:

"Dear Mr. "Atrios",

You have recently stolen the precious. This constitutes tricksiness in the first degree, and we hates you.

My husband's entire office has adopted "we hates you" as their universal response to fuckwittage.

A.

Best Single Issue Blog -- Juan Cole, Informed Consent

Best Blog? Atrios or Calpundit
Best Writing? Kevin Drum, by far
Best Group Blog? DailyKOS or Crooked Timber
Most Humorous Blog? Tbogg or Uggabugga
Best Design? The Talent Show
Best New Blog? Corrente, The Talent Show, or Crooked Timber

I would like to nominate my very own Jim Bomford: Live in Fear of Homosexuals!
for best series. Seven days so remember to page up.

(I'm sure I' m duplicating some, since I'm not reading the previous...)

A definite contender for "Most Humorous" (couldn't we just say "funniest"? I mean, really, lighten up!) post: Very Very Happy's extended fantasia The Corner Unleashed

I'd have to give Most Hu-, Funniest Blog to Adam at FA again, for volume & consistent hilarity. World O' Crap definitely deserves a nomination, though...

For Best New Blog: There's really no contest to me. Riverbend running away.

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No question, the best series has to be David Neiwert's "Rush, Newspeak and Fascism." Just reading the first installment was enough to make me run out and become a blogger.

Is it about that time of year again - dwight, I promissed you a followup email with more nominations, but it won't happen as I'm too busy with studies, but let me add these two:

Best series:
Alas, A Blog (Ampersand): "Constitutionality and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban"

Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

Best post:
Linda Fairstein, Lying Coward by Ronn Taylor in{ a burst of light }

I'd love to see a "best conservative blog" category, and nominate the conservative-ish two-thirds of Obsidian Wings.

And definitely Riverbend for best new blog. She has a unique and elowuent voice from a much-needed viewpoint.

I think I forgot to submit my nomination for special effects:

Uggabugga, particularly his month long calendar of Rush vomit.

How about "Obscure Bible Passage of the Day" from The Right Christians (www.therightchristians.org) for Best Series?

My vote for all categories, Ken MacLeod's Early Days of a Better Republic. Better to look at, deeper in thought, truly left rather than marshamllow, and a link to blogs you can't find elsewhere.

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: Suburban Guerilla
Best Post: 20 Most Annoying Conservatives (Pandagon)
Best Series: Friday Cat Blogging (CalPundit)
Best Group Blog: Kos (yes, I know it's not technically true, but even so...)
Best Special Effects: Uggabugga

And I always welcome comments on my brand new (since 12/4/03) blog @ http://totalesturns.blogspot.com

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Single-Issue Blog: Blog for America
Best Group Blog: DailyKos

Best Post -- The Lawless Bush Administration, by The Left Hook

Here is the URL -- http://claslib2.tripod.com/lh/030509.html

Most Humorous Post - "Killing Moslems Makes Them Angry And Possibly Even Violent, Says Report"

http://tomburka.com/archives/2003_10.php

Why isn't anyone voting for me? I'm a lefty. Really!! wait, shh... COMING Ms. COULTER... gotta go. vote for me!

Best Blog: Atrios
Funniest Blog Post: Atrios - Preznit give me turkee
Best Group Blog: DailyKos

Most of my suggestions have already been made above.

Best single topic blog: Amy Sullivan at http://www.politicalaims.com/

Best sequence of postings,
Alan Brill at Right Christians on the Bible and conservative economics.

Funniest Blog Post: Lightbulb week. I've never laughed that hard for that long at a post.

Funniest Blog: I forgot about the Poor Man before.

Best Design: Kos. The diaries are a cool feature.

Conservative Blog: I second my cobloggers at Obsidian Wings if eligible. If not, Tacitus.

(Because it's Not Fair for them to be nominated for a Koufax award and not my liberal, Boys-of-Summer memorizing self--I am going to submit one of my own posts. So:
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2003/12/the_disappeared.html#more)

Best Blog/best writing: Jim Henley (not sure he qualifies as 'left'); Kevin Drum
Best Group PolitX; Crooked Timber
Most Humorous: The Poor Man
Most Humorous post: the one about swirly brainses (see above)
Best series: Friday catblogging by Kevin Drum
Best at finding links (so best blog if you think that's what blogs are for): Atrios

I'd like to second Somerby for best single-topic blog. He's actually doing major investigative work and has a searchable archive. Orcinus, however, is about as good.

Best neglected blog: Ethel the Blog.

Funny blog: Busybusybusy. Or Bartcop.

Best Right-wing Blog: Matt Yglesias when he talks about the environment, civil-liberties, or national questions.

Best Post: Digby's Virtual Democracy
Best Group Blog: Clark Community Blog
Best New Blog: Billmon
Best Writing: Talking Points Memo/Calpundit/Digby (tie)
Best Single Issue Blog: Baghdad Burning
Most Humorous Blog: TBOGG
Most Humorous Post: An Open Letter to the Clark Movement: Rough Draft
Best Blog: Calpundit

Best Group Blog: John Lott's blog

Best Blog: TPM/TAPPED (Tie)

not seeing a lot of nominations for design so ive got a few:

Best design: www.xoverboard.com anyone who takes the time to code an "easter egg" on his page, should get a nomination.
also This Modern World

best single issue: TALKLEFT, of course!

Best post: Steve Gilliard, "I'm a fighting liberal"
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2003_11_30_stevegilliard_archive.html
Best blog: Calpundit
Best writer: Body and Soul (Jeanne)

Best Post - Billmon's "Dream time"

http://billmon.org/archives/000469.html

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: Josh Marshall TPM
Best Post: Turkee
Best Design: KOS
Best New: World O'Crap
Best Humorous: TBOGG
Best Series: CalPundit's Friday Cat Blogging
Single Issue: Juan Cole

One thing I know with absolute certainty:

Best New Blog = Steve Gilliard

Other thoughts:

Best Group Blog = Corrente or Pacific Views
Best Blog = Atrios or Kos or CalPundit
Best Single Issue Blog = just change the name to the Jeralyn Merritt Prize

Not a category, but the O'Reilly parody day needs to be recognized somewhere. And there have to be prizes of some sort for Billmon, skippy, and Lisa English.

Talking Points Memo.

Is Josh Marshall *really* a lefty? Hmm.. pretty close. And even though I don't always agree with him, I find myself turning to his blog first.

Best Single Issue - Howard Dean's blog: www.blogforamerica.com. Blog of the year!

Best Blog: Billmon
Best Post: Steve Gilliard's "Fighting Liberal"
Best Writing: Jeanne D'Arc, Meteor Blades at dKos
Most Humorous: Pandagon's "20 Most Annoying ..." I'm still laughing

Best Lefty Blog: WTF Is It Now?

Best Writing: Bitch Has Word

Best Post: Don't Cry For Me, America

Best Single-Issue Blog: Rader Blog (Intellectual property law)

Most Humorous Blog:I Am Eating My Husband's Soul

Most Humorous Post:I Am Eating My Husband's Soul, Nov. 19, 2003

Best Design: Feministe

Best New Blog: Broken Windows

Best Blog: Calpundit, Eschaton, Hullabaloo

Best Writing: Max Sawicky (MaxSpeak), Jeanne d'Arc (Body & Soul), Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Making Light)

Best Post: Steve Gilliard's "I'm a fighting liberal," David Niewart's "The Political and the Personal" (Orcinus)

Best Series: Niewart's "Rush, Newspeak and Fascism"

Best Single-Issue Blog: The Right Christians, Daily Kos, Nathan Newman

Best Group Blog: Pandagon, Crooked Timber, Corrente

Most Humorous: The Poor Man, Jesse Taylor (Pandagon), TBogg

Best New Blog: Hullabaloo, Steve Gilliard, Very Very Happy

...other possibilites...
Best Original Analysis: Steve Gilliard, Hesiod (Counterspin Central)

Best Commenter: John Isbell, Zizka, John Isbell, Demetrios, John Isbell, rea, John Isbell, Thumb...did I mention John Isbell?

Best Comments Section: Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Matthew Yglasias, Calpundit

Best Guest Blogger: Dwight Meredith (Wampum), Donald Johnson (Body & Soul), Meteor Blades (DailyKos)

Best non-American Blog: Avedon Carol, The Road to Surfdom

Best Conservative/Libertarian Blog: Arthur Silber, Jim Henley, Just One Minute

P.S. Digby, Kevin Drum, Daniel Davies, Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Electrolite), Scott Martens (Pedantry), Ted Barlow, Andrew Northrup (The Poor Man), and Fred Clark (Slacktivist) all very much deserve mention in the "Best Writing" category.

Best Blog - Atrios. Noone else comes close.

Best writing - Orcinus, David Niewert. His continuing essay on Fascism in America is superb.

Most Humorous - Atrios' "Preznit gib me turkee" parody post.

Best Single Issue - Juan Cole

The official categories:

Best Blog: Atrios's Eschaton. Runners-up: Calpundit, Nathan Newman, TalkLeft, Matthew Yglesias.

Best Writing: Teresa Nielsen Hayden's Making Light.

Best Post: Teresa Nielsen Hayden, "The Fabric of the City".

Best Series: Slacktivist on the "Left Behind" books. Runners-up: Teresa Nielsen Hayden on the looting of Iraqi antiquities; Brad de Long on "Why are We Ruled By These Idiots?".

Best Single-Issue Blog: David Neiwert's Orcinus. Runners-up: MaxSpeak; Riverbend; The Right Christians.

Best Group Blog: BoingBoing. Runners-up: Crooked Timber; Futurismic.

Most Humorous Blog: Adam Felber's Fanatical Apathy. Runners-up: Andrew Northrup's The Poor Man, Elton Beard's Busy, Busy, Busy.

Most Humorous Post: Andrew Northrup, "Shorter Right-Wing Punditry's Reaction to the Valerie Plame Affair: An Internal Dialogue". Runner-up: Adam Felber, "From 'Rough Justice IV' (The Movie Inside President Bush's Head)".

Best Design: My own Electrolite. If I knew of a blog with a design I liked better, I would have stolen it.

Best New Blog: Ken MacLeod's The Early Days of a Better Nation.

Best Special Effects: Uggabugga.

Other suggested awards:

Indispensable Libertarian Award: Jim Henley's Unqualified Offerings.

Best Comment Section: Teresa Nielsen Hayden's Making Light. Runner-up: The Daily Kos.

More outstanding blogs I can't stop without mentioning, except that I'm sure I'm leaving out two dozen more, have I mentioned I hate polls?

Mark Kleiman, Josh Marshall, Political Wire, Tapped, The Sideshow, Whiskey Bar, Juan Cole, Body and Soul, Hullabaloo, Through the Looking Glass, The Road to Surfdom, Dan Gillmor, The Green[e]house Effect, John and Belle, Chris Mooney, Ruy Texeira, This Modern World, Off the Kuff, Unmedia, John Quiggin, and The Talking Dog.

I would suggest Cal Pundit and AngryBear as best blogs. They truly know how to filter and dissect news that otherwise would go unnoticed. Pichiflay

Best Design: Alas, A Blog, of course, but we've gotta show some love for August Pollock and Kevin Moore.

Best Humor blog: General JC Christian.

Everyone else is nominating Atrios for best blog, but I'll add my voice to that.

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Series: Friday Catblogging at Calpundit

World O' Crap is the funniest this year, with close runners-up thepoorman.net and tbogg. Felbers is just too 2002.

Best Series: David Neiwert's "Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism"

Best Group Blog: Open Source Politics

Best Commentor: John Isbell

Best Post: Torture, Drugs, and Terror by Jonathan Edelstein, Where We Stand by Prometheus 6, The Political and the Personal by David Neiwert. Obligatory self-nomination is Muslims and anti-semitism.

More later.

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: Orcinus
Best Post: Notes on the Atrocities: BUSH SAID TO BE UNCONVINCING AS 'REAL SELF;' WILL BE PLAYED BY STAND-IN
Best Series: Catblogging Calpundit
Best Single Issue: Verified Voting / Black Box Voting
Best Group: Demogogue
Most Humorous: World O' Crap
Most Humorous Post: Notes on the Atrocities: BUSH SAID TO BE UNCONVINCING AS 'REAL SELF;' WILL BE PLAYED BY STAND-IN from Friday Satire
Best Design: Not Geniuses
Best New: Bagdhad Burning
Best Special Effects: Uggabugga

Christ, how could I have forgotten Liberal Oasis?

Best new blog:

Carpe Datum

Best single issue (if it's up, he's had threats of litigation):

PharmaWatch

Best sigle issue blog--

Blog For America

Best New Blog: Steve Gilliard

Why only six or seven nominees per catagory? Being nominated is fun, and I think you should spread the fun around. Limiting the nominees is sensible, but I think the limit should be more like 15 or 20 per catagory, at least in the catagories where lots of nominations are made.

The limiting I DO think you should do: In the "best post" and "best series" catagory, limit nominees to one nomination per author. Otherwise, the fans of a particular blog will split their nominations over multiple posts or series, thus unfairly reducing the blog's chance of winning. (I think something like that could really hurt Body and Soul in the "best post" catagory, for instance).

Best Blog: Nathan Newman.
Body and Soul

Best Writing: Body and Soul.
Pedantry

Best Single Post (I've emphasized posts that are over a few months old here, since I think people may have forgotten about some of these)

Best Series of Posts: I'm going to do the self-promotion thing again and nominate two series of my own:
The Wage Gap Series
The Partial Birth Abortion Ban series

Also, I'll nominate Pedantry, "an alternative to normative liberal political theory," in three parts: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.

And Body and Soul, "Looking for Alternatives," Part I, Part II, and Part III.

And Making Light, posts on the lootings in Iraq - start here and scroll down.

And Prometheus 6, for his "Startin' Stuff" series on reparations.

And Nathan Newman, for his series of posts on the minimum wage.

Best Single-Issue Blog: MsMusings
Also, Baghdad Burning

Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber

Most Humorous Post: D-squared digest, for the SSdB series.

Best Blog Design: My vote definitely goes to Jenn Manely Lee.
But I think Feministe deserves a nomination, as well.

Best New Blog: Baghdad Burning

Best Special Effects: BlarghBlog, for the Flower and Rock series.

Best Blog: Talking Points Memo in a landslide... Atrios is great as a central station for what's in the news accompanied by interesting commentary, but TPM gives the most insight and nuanced opinions of any blog out there. I always feel like he's letting you in on a big secret... indeed, his motto on his gear is "Always Uncovering Something"

Best Group Blog: Pandagon has only been a group blog for a little while, but with their abilities Jesse and Ezra rocket to the top.

Best Single Issue Blog: Blog for America

We get almost a many hits as the white house

BartCop all the way.

Not a true weblog, but there's a new page almost every day in a blog style. He's been doing it since well before the instant-update blog thing started.

Best Single Issue Blog: Blog for America

Best Post: "The Chickenhawks Come Home to Roost," by Tresy at Corrente
( http://corrente.blogspot.com/2003_11_09_corrente_archive.html )
Best Series: Orcinus/David Neiwert's "Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism"
Best Group Blog: Corrente
Most Humorous Blog: Happy Furry Puppy Story Time With Norbizness
Best New Blog: NTodd/Dohiyi Mir

Best Blog: Daily Kos
Best Writing: Orcinus
Best Series: Orcinus: Rush, Newspeak and Facism
Most Humorous: Oliver Willis
Best Design: Body and Soul
Best New: Fire Ant, of course!
Best Special Effects: Uggabugga

Best collaborative blog - Harry's Place - http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/

I'd like to nominate myself for all categories (I'm known around the office as "multiple Miggs"). Thank you.

Forgive me if that's rude, but I think you'll see that I've got design and a href="http://chun.typepad.com/">special effects wrapped up.

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: Matt Yglesias
Best Post: Atrios doing righteous anger
Best Series: Calpundit, Friday Cat Blogging
Best Single Issue: Talking Points Memo, politics
Most Humorous Blog: Fanatical Apathy
Most Humorous Post: Jesse at Pandagon, any post
Best New Blog: Open Source Politics

Best blog: Talking Points Memo
Best Writing: Joshua Micah Marshall

Best Post: Melanie Mattson of "Just a Bump in the Beltway", from her December 8 collection of postings.
[Title of specific post: "Language, Religion, Politics"]

link: www.node707.com/archives/2003_12_08.html#000115

Best Series: Rev. Allen H. Brill of The Right Christians in June on authentic Christian economics relative to the Alabama tax plan

Best Single-Issue Blog: "A Minority of One," by Michael Bowen on Alabama taxes and politics

www.aminorityofone.com

Best Group Blog: Open Source Politics

This is OT, but it should be noted..

Bush may be selectable, but he's definitely unelectable.

clickity, clickity, click!

Best: Daily Kos
Best Writing: Billmon of Whiskey Bar
Best Single Issue: Maxspeak, by Max Sawicky
Most Humorous: The Poorman
Best New Blog: tie between Steve Gilliard and Melanie of Just a Bump in the Beltway
Humorous Post: Atrios, "Preznit Giv Me Turkee"

For funniest post, I nominate Can Libertarians Do Yum-Cha at Tug Boat Potemkin. If I don't, who will?

I think I should really point out that I nominated Open Source Politics not least because my first post with OSP, on comparative religion, comes out next week. Sorry! Anyway, thanks all for the compliments.
I'd looked for a place for Ampersand, who I think is fantastic. Having confirmed the vital importance of Open Source Politics, which Allen Brill and Mark Kleiman write for, I'd like to substitute Ampersand for my Group Blog vote.

Best Blog
Steve_Gilliard

Best Writing
Steve_Gilliard

Best Series
Friday Catblogging, CalPundit

Best Design
New DailyKos

Best New Blog
Steve_Gilliard

Best Special Effects
Uggabugga

corrente for best group.

and for best post it is hard for me to decide between prezit giv me turkee and Farmer's bit on Atrios Bump Monkey Pox(ah, memories-i still have to print that one).

For Most Humorous Post, I nominate: "Maidenly Vapors," Hullabaloo (Digby), September 14.

Best Blog: http://suburbanguerrilla.blogspot.com/
I always start there and get to everywhere relevant by doing so. Nobody mentioned Bartcop, is it not considered a blog? It's damn good anyway.

Best humorous blog: Jesus' General, definitely.

I could pretend I'm someone else, but I won't stoop to that. I hereby nominate my blog, Left I on the News, for Best Blog, Best New Blog, and Best Writing (I'll have to review the year before I nominate anything for Best Post).

No, Bartcop is a treehouse. It's fun, and he finds lots of good links and all, but Atrios spells better. So do Nathan Newman, CalPundit, The Poor Man, Electrolite, Talk Left. Bill Scher's Liberal Oasis is indespensible, too.

There's also a very good blog called wampum.

I'd nominate my weblog for best design (because it's simple, and I love that color), but I can't find enough good thumbnails of good bras every week.

I have a few more nominations in mind:

Best New Blog: The Right Christians.

Most Humorous Blog: Very Very Happy by the Mighty Reason Man

Funniest Post: The 20 Most Annoying Conservatives of 2003 over at Pandagon.
Also for Funniest Post: Riding in Cars (Parts 1 and 2) over at Very Very Happy

Best Post: Annotated Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" Speech over at The Right Christians
Also for Best Post: "My dislike of the French is independent of any facts about the world." from Very Very Happy.

I want to add another single-issue blog nomination: Daily Howler.

I still think Blog for America should get the prize, though. They certainly qualify by having one well-defined single issue (the election of Howard Dean), and they should win for advancing and innovating the phenomenon of blogging, and for effecting an extraordinary amount of real change through blogging.

2 Best Posts:

Very Very Happy: The Corner Unleashed http://veryveryhappy.blogspot.com/2003_10_26_veryveryhappy_archive.html#106758943132083300

And I 2nd (at least, scrolled fast) Pandagon's 20 Most Annoying Conservatives
http://www.pandagon.net/archives/00002229.htm#comments

I just have to say at the outset that if I'd known there were awards for this sort of thing, I would have tried harder.

What a pleasure to be in a voting booth where I don't have to hold my nose. If anything it's hard to parse the difference between goodest and good. But the hour of decision is upon me. I will make only single nominations in each category; later, when the Koufaxes has become tainted by million-dollar marketing campaigns and pressure from major studios, I will endeavor to establish the New York Blog Critics' Circle, with a weighted points system.

Best Blog: CalPundit, the thinking man's thinking man.

Best Writing: Jim Rittenhouse, for the proud architectural pile of his sentences.

Best Post: Whiskey Bar, "Sitcom" (http://billmon.org/archives/000856.html)
Like all great satire, this takes a minor premise (the Reagan TV movie dust-up) and makes something beautiful out of it.

Best Single Issue Blog: Jesus' General. It's all about the "little soldier."

Best Series: Ted Barlow's Lightbulb Jokes.

Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber, aka the Faculty Lounge. Ah feels kinda dumb when I reads 'em!

Most Humorous Blog: Roger Ailes, for the fierce indignation that lacerates my funny bone.

Most Humorous Post: Sisyphus Shrugged, "Shorter David Brooks" (http://www.livejournal.com/users/jmhm/618232.html)
She did it! She out-busybusybusied busybusybusy! (And cubed D-Squared!)

Best Design: BusyBusyBusy. Where do they get all those unflattering pictures of stupid people?

Best New Blog: Modesty forbids. I mean, Very Very Happy.

Best Special Effects: I use a Kaypro, and so must abstain from the technical awards nominations process.

Best design: Ed Cosette's Bambino's Curse: Diary of a Red Sox Fan

I'm going to toot my own horn and nominate an old post for

Best Post: Whiteness, As I Know It

This was an essay inspired by a tangent from Cobb, who fortunately appreciated my efforts. If nothing comes of it, so be it, but I was proud of this one.

Also,

Best Series: Alas, A Blog's Wage Gap Series

how could a popularity contest be anything even approaching fun?

anyhoo...

Best group blog: open source politics

best blog: ruminate this

best new blog: the s-train canvass

Best single-issue blog: ex-gay watch

Best neglected/ignored blog: all facts and opinions

best post: all facts and opinions, "one world, one race"

best humor blog: mad kane

best series: mark a.r. kleiman on the plame scandal

best design: alas, a blog

I'd like to nominate Robert COrr's mentalspace.ranters.net for best design. It looks good, it fits on a small screen, it's an original design and it's easy to get around.

Best Blog: Body and Soul
Best Writing: Orcinus
Best Post: Body and Soul's Resistance
Best Series: Orcinus on Fascism (see sidebar, or visit reprint in Cursor.)
Best Single Issue: Language Hat
Best Group: BoingBoing
Most Humorous: ???
Most Humorous Post: ???
Best Design: Typepad!!!
Best New: ???
Best Special Effects: ???

atrios encore. no contest

Best blog: Body and Soul
Best Writing: Billmon
Best Post: Dream Time by Billmon
Best Single Issue Blog: Juan Cole's Informed Comment
Best Group Blog: OS Politics
Funniest Blog: Pandagon
Best New Blog: Steve Gilliard, although only in reading the other nominations did I know he was "new".

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Best Series: Off the Kuff's coverage of Texas redistricting
Most Humorous Blog: World O'Crap
Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber
Best Single Issue: SullyWatch
Best New Blog: Mine, of course.

Ha ha, no. Go with Corrente.

I see that Amygdala has gotten about 50 votes so far for "Best Liberal Blog" in the Wizbang poll, for whatever that's worth.

In case it needs more seconding, I'd definitely nominate The Poor Man for Best Humorous Blog. It's also damned serious.

Best Blog: Atrios, hands down

Best New Blog: tie between Jesus' General (can't remember the addy) and the Rude Pundit (http://rudepundit.blogspot.com)

Best writing: billmon, by a mile

Yeah, I wanna second "Best Post: Daniel Davies' "The Economics of Pounds Canto 45": http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2003_02_23_d-squareddigest_archive.html"
That was scary good.

How about "best journalism"?

I would suggest the completely-ignored WW3 Report.

http://www.ww3report.com/

Best Blog has gotta be Bob Somerby's The Daily Howler. Someone's gotta recognize his wondrous work before he bursts a vein or something.

I thought about nominating myself for something but that just doesn't seem right. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized that these things just devolve into popularity contests. And I've already been burned on the whole "league of liberals/TTLB ecosystem" thing once before.

--Kynn

Best series: Alas, A Blog's Wage Gap Series.

I have already sent these links to dwight some weeks ago, but I thought I'd share it with the other commentors:

Single posts:

"A comment on rape and "she asked for it" by Pink Dream Poppies" by Ampersand/Pink Dream Poppies at Alas, A Blog

"beware the untruths about the Estrada nomination" by Sam Heldman at Ignatz

"THE NEW MODEL REPUBLICAN PARTY" by Kevin Drum of Calpundit

"Ich Bin Ein Neoconer" by Digby at Hullabaloo

"The Lawsuit Abuse Tax" (scroll down to Fri, Jan 03 2003) by Dominion at A Skeptical Blog

"The Myth of the Separation between Church and State!" (scroll down to Wed, Jan 08 2003) by Dominion at A Skeptical Blog

"My dislike of the French is independent of any facts about the world." by Might Reason Man at Very Very Happy

AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL KRUGMAN by Kevin Drum at Calpundit

Josh Marshall's interview with Amb. Joseph Wilson (pdf)

"I Really Cannot Understand Why Anyone Would Do This" by Brad Delong in his Semi-Daily Journal

"The fabric of the city" by Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Making Ligth

series:
"Rush, Newspeak and Fascism" (pdf) by David Neiwert at Orcinus
Part XV contains links to all the former posts.
Please note that Neiwert asks for a $5 donation if you download the pdf.

Sam Heldman's posts about Pryor at Ignatz

Mark Kleiman's posts about the Plame affair - both at Open Soruce and even more so at his own blog.

Kevin Drum's, of Calpundit, posts about the Plame affair.

Dwight Meredith's "Just for the Record" and "The Responsibility Era" posts

Single issue:
John Lott's Unethical Conduct by Tim Lambert

Flashback Friday bt MB at Wampun

Best new blogs:
A Fistful of Euros (group)
Crooked Tomber (group)
Open Source Politics (group)
Very Very Happy
corrente (group)
It's Still The Economy, Stupid (group)

Best commentor:
Dwight Meredith, formerly of PLA numerous paces (Hullabaloo, Wampun, Alas...)

PinkDreamPoppies at Alas, a Blog

rea at Eschaton, Calpundit etc.

Best new blog: Mine, of course. :-) Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time

The other categories I'll have to think about; I'll just say the ones I go to most often have already received a good number of votes with the exception of Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World.

Must say, there's a pretty heavy duty US bias going down here, which I guess is also pretty readily understandable. All the same, from downunder, I'd nominate:

Best Blog
The Road to Surfdom

Most Humorous Blog
Tug Boat Potemkin

Best Group Blog
Crooked Timber (OK, not an Oz blog, but not really an argument either, I think ... and there is an Oz rep)

Best Blog by a Specialist (OK, not a category, but it should be)
John Quiggin (economist)

Best Design
Back Pages (just has to be)

Twice I've lost long posts to here... my computer locked up once and once this box disappeared...Grrrr

Now I'm just gonna spend days nominating them one at a time:

Most Humorous Post:
Gunga Dean

Sheer Brilliance!

Most Humorous Blog: 3-way tie between TBOGG, Opinions You Should Have (Tom Burka) and Jesus' General.

Some more. Best series Dead Socialist Watch on Chris Brooke.
Best right-wing, Roger Simon.
Best design: Plastic Bag.

I agree with Chris Sheil -- "Best Blog by a Specialist" sounds like a smashing category. I also second each of his nominations.

While I'm here, I suppose I should nominate Chris for Best New Blog.

Best punch: Barcop

Best overall: Atrios

Best 'watch' site: Sullywatch

This thread has been good for clueing me into stuff I was missing, and also for reminding me of excellent stuff I'd forgotten. Certainly Daniel Davies's The Economics of Pound's Canto 45, mentioned above, ought to be on any list of great single posts.

best group blog: jakeneck.com

Without reading through the whole damn thing, just want to make sure that:

1) Crooked Timber goes in both 'best group blog' and 'best new blog'
2) Poor Man goes in 'funniest post' for 'the Cornier'.
3) Daniel Davies gets nominated for best writing, and best post for his Director's Cut of the Cancun conference (here)

Thanks for doing this again, guys.

1 Best = TALKLEFT
2 Writing = Digby at HULLABALLOO
3 Single issue = SLUGGER O'TOOLE (www.sluggerotoole.com)
4 Group = FISTFUL OF EUROS
5 Humorous = TBOGG
6 Special Effects = UGGABUGGA this time
7 New = WORLD O CRAP if it qualifies
8 Design = I'll go with ROAD TO SURFDOM too

Best new blog is The right Christians

Oh yeah, D^2's original Shorter Steven DenBeste is definitely the seeries of the year.

Oh, and best series is DAMN FOREIGNER on Mahar Arar. Consistent blogging on a hugely important issue that most people seem to be ignoring.

norbizness and killinggoliath for most humorous. liquid list for best writing. corrente for best new one.

Most Humorous Post:

(Our) The Dickification of the Western Female

Best new: We also love the World O'Crap.

I came here to support Killing Goliath as best group blog. But while here, I see the perfect category for something I did in The GammaBlaBlog, it's a Flash movie with tons of special effects. "Amazing Facts - 87 Billion Dollars for the Prez."

Best Blog: daily KOS

Best Writing: Whiskey Bar's billmon

Best Post: Anything by (I am) ATRIOS!

Best Series: TPM

Best Single Issue: Juan Cole

Best Group: daily KOS

Most Humorous: TBOGG (runners-up; Ann Coulter, whitehouse.gov/news/briefings/)

Most Humourous Post: Pandagon's Top 20 Cons

Best Design: The user-friendly daily KOS

Best New: ~tie~ World O'Crap / Steve Gilliard

Best Special Effects: ~tie~ uggabugga / unablogger

Honourable mentions: MWO, Daily Howler, BartCop, Demagogue, Hammerdown

Best Blog: daily KOS

Best Writing: Whiskey Bar's billmon

Best Post: Anything by (I am) ATRIOS!

Best Series: TPM

Best Single Issue: Juan Cole

Best Group: daily KOS

Most Humorous: TBOGG (runners-up; Ann Coulter, whitehouse.gov/news/briefings/)

Most Humourous Post: Pandagon's Top 20 Cons

Best Design: The user-friendly daily KOS

Best New: ~tie~ World O'Crap / Steve Gilliard

Best Special Effects: ~tie~ uggabugga / unablogger

Honourable mentions: MWO, Daily Howler, BartCop, Demagogue, Hammerdown

Ha! Ha!

I can see that "Counterspin Central" is more of a guilty pleasure than a Oscar contender. :)

But that's fine with me.

Every one of the blogs who have been nominated thus far are terrific, and you can't do much better.

Good luck to everyone.

I will be posting my own official "nomination" slate over the weekend, and will be sending that to Dwight, et al.

I will not nominate myself for anything, although I did post something here about my series on the astro-turf letters to home from our soldiers in Iraq.

I'll leave that up to others to decide.

I'm just happy to be a part of the left-of-center blogging revolution.

Happy holidays everyone. And keep up the great work!