Things are getting pretty crowded in the original thread, so here's a new post to continue the nominating process.
This one will stay open for another 200 or so comments as well.
Update: I closed the other thread, as 200kB is a big fetch. Please use this one now.
Posted by MB Williams at December 13, 2004 09:04 PM | TrackBackBest Blog
Best Writing
Best Group Blog
Best Expert Blog
Posted by: Jonathan Singer at December 13, 2004 09:22 PMI'm not looking to see who has already been nominated, merely posting my sincere nominations based exclusively on my own reading. Thanks for the work.
Best Blog
Yes, Atrios remains, day in, day out, the best.
Pandagon.com gets a nod for second place in my daily read list. Way to go Jesse and Ezra.
Josh Marshall's TPM is also on high on my daily read list.
Best Writing
No question about it, James Wolcott's Tracer Fire. Not the most timely, not the biggest scoops but always superior writing.
Best Post
I'm tempted to say that no one single post ever stuck with me this year. In fact, I'll stick with that.
Best Series
To sort of continue my theme of not finding any single instance of brilliance I would say that Josh Marshall at TPM did an excellent job dogging a number of issues this year. His in depth research and insightful commentary made reading about some issues very informative. No one series sticks out but he covered a number of things quite well.
Best Single Issue Blog
David Niewart of Orcinus. No doubt about it.
Best Group Blog
I hate to say it but nerly all the blogs I read daily or regularly are "solo" enterprises. It's not by design. Hmm, I wonder what that means...
Most Humorous Blog
I think it's time to give The Rude Pundit his due. We need one truly hyperbolic blog in running for a koufax and TRP's blog is great.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Most Humorous Post
The Rude Pundit for his series on the Kerry/Bush debates. About time someone said what actually needed to be said.
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
I don't think I dig that deeply into the blogsphere so I'm not qualified to make a nomination here, unless any of my other nominees fit this category.
Best Expert Blog
no nomination
Best New Blog
I have no idea who is new. James Wolcott is the only one I know of and if he doesn't get recognition in any other area, he deserves something here, at the very least.
Best Commenter
This seems redundant to me. I'm not sure it covers anyone I haven't already mentioned. I look down my list of daily reads and the only person I haven't mentioned is Digby, is regualarly brilliant, so how about him for this one?
Ice weasel, best commentor is generally a non-blogger posting in comments on a blog. Digby and John Emerson were excellent commentors before they opened their own blog or joined an established one as a permanent host. A number of Atrios and Kos guest bloggers started the same way.
Posted by: MB at December 13, 2004 09:40 PMBest Blog
Atrios
Best Writing
Fafblog
Best Series
Holden's Obsession With The Gaggle
Best Single Issue
Juan Cole
Most Humorous
The Poor Man
Most Humorous Post
Rude Pundit's Snake eyes, MF, snake eyes!
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Press Think-Jay Rosen
Best Expert Blog
MaxSpeak, you listen
Best New Blog
Steve Clemons The Washington Note
Best Blog: atrios
Most humorous post: Collective posting @Atrios for one-liners defining America, e.g. America: Don't make me turn this war around!
Best Series: Corrente (blogspot.corrente.com) for the Bernie Kerik scandal.
Best Group Blog. Corrente, again.
Best Expert Blog. abuaardvark.typepad.com
Best New Blog. The Liberal Avenger.
Best Commenter. kei&yuri @ atrios.
More deserving of winder recognition: SIVACRACY.NET
Posted by: Nur al-Cubicle at December 13, 2004 09:49 PMI can't nominate anyone for best new blog, but I highly suggest people check out Jack Pine Savage, aka Tom, my campaign field director, at Curly Tales of War Pigs
Just a suggestion :-) I'd nominate him for best field director, but Dwight forgot that category.
Posted by: MB at December 13, 2004 09:53 PMbest humorous/commenter/series.. i'm not really sure where this fits in but Cheers and Jeers on dKos by Bill in Portland Maine is one of my favorite things out there.
Posted by: Lo at December 13, 2004 10:03 PMBest Blog:
Eschaton
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
The Sideshow
Best New Blog:
Blog for James Bovard
Best Expert Blog - Informed Comment
Deserving Wider Recognition - self-nomination for (hey, it's the only way I'll ever get nominated), also Prometheus 6
Best New Blog - Minority Report
Best Writing - Jeanne d'Arc and David Neiwert
Best Post - Fairy Tales, And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink
Best Series - Bush, the Nazis, and America by David Neiwert (first post starts here)
Best Single Issue Blog - Riverbend
Best Group Blog - Open Source Politics
Best Blog - Daily Kos
Posted by: Al-Muhajabah at December 13, 2004 10:06 PMBest Blog: Daily Kos (easy choice)
Posted by: John at December 13, 2004 10:08 PMMost Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Lickin' Bush and, of course, MY BLOG!
BlueGrassRoots
Best blog:
Daily Kos
Best series:
Cheers and Jeers (Bill in P, Maine)
General Election Cattle Call (Chris Bowers)
Best expert:
Juan Cole
Best group:
MyDD
BOP
Best single issue:
Swing State Project
Sirotablog (Does he belong somewhere else?)
Best new blog:
Political Strategy (politicalstrategy.org)
Most deserving of wider recognition:
Political Strategy
Best commenter:
Maryscott O'Connor
Best Blog -- The famous ones earn their keep, but they've all lost a little of their freshness and personality over time. In the sense that a blog is intended to be a highly personalized reaction to the world & the news of the day, I find the "best" blog I've been reading to be Majikthise, which ranges effortlessly from savvy commentary to philosophy to humor and whimsy.
Best Writing -- To paraphrase Edward Albee (asked to name his favorite living playwright after Samuel Beckett died), "Billmon! Still Billmon!
Best Post -- "Liberal Blogs in Crisis" (due to snark shortage), Hunter on Daily Kos
Best Series -- Okay, humility loses out here. My "Shiite Showdowns coverage of the political maneuverings of Ayatollah Sistani, Moqtada al-Sadr, and their fellow Shia clerics in Iraq has quietly kicked ass for more than a year now (the link goes back to August's siege of Najaf), even scooping the esteemed Prof. Cole on some analyses.
Best Single-Issue Blog -- Informed Comment
Best Group Blog -- Fafblog!
Most Humorous Blog -- Fafblog is going to win this by acclamation, but I'll nominate The Poor Man
Most Humorous Post -- Oh, wait, I should have nominated Hunter here. Oh, well, how about the Poor Man's It's Hard Work, which contains almost certainly the first use of the phrase "publicly fellated by a domesticated game bird" in all of human history.
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition -- Majikthise and Needlenose, of course. (Quietly kicking ass is no fun!)
Best Expert Blog -- I think Talking Points Memo belongs here, but that's a subjective opinion (does there need to be a separate category for professional journalists?). War and Piece might fit, for the same reasons.
Best New Blog -- I like Spencer Ackerman's Iraq'd blog, though having been linked to by it recently, I know not many people read it. ;-)
Best Commenter -- I second someone's nomination of the ubiquitous and thoughtful praktike.
Posted by: Swopa at December 13, 2004 10:14 PMBest group blog:
Obsidian Wings
Most humorous:
Fafblog!
Deserving of wider recognition:
slacktivist
Best post AND most humorous post:
Giblets's One Nation Under McGod. It may not be simultaneously the funniest and most insightful thing I saw all year in any medium, but it's scary close.
Best Blog:
Eschaton
Best Group Blog:
Crooked timber
Most Humorous:
Fafblog!
Best Series:
Orcinus on "The Rise of Pseudo Fascism"
Best Writing:
Making Light
Best Post:
Billmon on "The Wild Blue Yonder"
http://billmon.org/archives/001510.html
(So many were good; this one was prescient.)
Best expert:
Juan Cole
Best new blog:
Obsidian Wings
Most deserving of wider recognition:
Fistful of Euros
Best commenters:
Bob McManus and Four Legs Good, to be found simply everywhere.
Best series, Abu Aardvark for his coverage of the Arab media:
http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/arab_media/index.html
Best group blog, TAPPED - http://www.prospect.org/weblog
Most deserving of wider recognition, Jonathan Edelstein, http://headheeb.blogmosis.com
Best blog, Washington Monthly
Posted by: Brian Ulrich at December 13, 2004 10:18 PMBest writing: The Day After by Tim Burke, as well as many other posts
For best new blog, I don't know, but take a look at Hugo Schwyzer
Posted by: Brian Ulrich at December 13, 2004 10:25 PMBest Series: Attaturk vs. Holden, the battle for hits
Best Group Blog: First Draft
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Norwegianity
Best New Blog: Backslider's Wine
Best Blog: Atrios or Rox Populi
Best Writing: Digby or Mouse Words
Best Group Blog: Obsidian Wings
Best Humorous Blog: Fafblog or World O'Crap
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Feministe or Rox Populi
Best Expert Blog: Daniel Drezner (I think he's a lefty....)
Best New Blog: Wolcott
Posted by: moonshower at December 13, 2004 10:39 PMFunniest blog post ever: Fafnir, Giblets, and the ham jello. http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2004_07_11_fafblog_archive.html#108973435683602830
Posted by: PT&S at December 13, 2004 10:42 PMBest New Blog: ACSBlog
Best Series: AcsBlog's Clarence Thomas' America
Best Blog
Atrios's Eschaton -- http://atrios.blogspot.com/
Best Writing
The Rude Pundit -- http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Best Series
Orcinus's Rise of Psuedo-Fascism -- http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/
Best Single Issue Blog
MyDD -- www.mydd.com
Best Group Blog
Corrente -- http://corrente.blogspot.com/
Most Humorous Blog
James Wolcott -- http://jameswolcott.com/
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
AMERICAblog -- http://www.americablog.org/
Best Expert Blog
Talking Points Memo -- http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Best New Blog
AMERICAblog -- http://www.americablog.org/
*** NEW CATEGORY NOMINATION ***
Best Honorary Liberal
Andrew Sullivan -- http://www.andrewsullivan.com/
Most Humorous Blog: Cheers and Jeers
They are daily diaries at dKos but they are hilarious and all of the comments are just icing on the cake. Here is an example
Posted by: sgilman at December 13, 2004 10:54 PMBest Post
From The Rude Pundit,
Rather at Twilight - A Fantasia
Best Blog closed because of a Bauhaus tune: Bilmon
Posted by: Jack K at December 13, 2004 10:57 PMBest Writing
Best Single Issue Blog
Most Humorous Blog
Posted by: Edge at December 13, 2004 11:09 PMBest new blog: Jill Cozzi's Brilliant at Breakfast. And I don't care who hears me say so.
Nominations for other categories will be provided as they come to me, unless they don't.
Posted by: Waveflux at December 13, 2004 11:13 PMBest Blog:
Atrios is still the king: Eschaton
Best Post:
This has to be, without a doubt, the study they did at JuliusBlog http://juliusblog.blogspot.com exposing the political motivation of the "terror alerts" by the Homeland Security. Bloggers Julius and Biltud created an amazing timeline of terror alerts and added a chart that really speak for itself.
Both the timeline and the chart had a huge impact in the blogosphere over the summer, and was even picked up by the mainstream media.
Interesting enough, Ridge stopped issuing all those alarming terror alerts so frequently... I wonder if this blog helped stop the madness.
Best Writing
David Neiwert of Orcinus
Most Humorous Blog
This year will have to be The Rude Pundit, http://rudepundit.blogspot.com.
Best New Blog
MyDD.com
Best Commenter
James Wolcott indeed. He is on the spot when criticizing the media punditry, and always hilarious to read.
Posted by: Martha at December 13, 2004 11:13 PMBEST NEW BLOG
"The Political Forecast"
http://politicalforecast.blogspot.com/
Best Blog: The Iraq War Was Wrong Blog
Best new blog: Screaming Memes
Posted by: Eric C. at December 13, 2004 11:18 PMI'm nominating two multi-author series from my blog, The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion & the Press, published by NYU's Center for Religion and Media.
1. The 'R' Word -- Several months before "moral values" became the issue of the day, we asked journalists, bloggers, and scholars to talk about how reporters should cover the role of religion in the campaign. Not strictly left, since we have a political spectrum: Jay Rosen (Pressthink), Amy Sullivan (Washington Monthly), Shahed Amanullah (Alt.Muslim), Jason DeRose (NPR), Rod Dreher (Dallas Morning News), The Raving Atheist, and Bob Smietana, a progressive evangelical Christian who writes for Christianity Today.
2. What God Gap? -- With all the emphasis on Christian fundamentalism at the Republican National Convention, we decided to put five blog reporters outside the convention to cover religion -- broadly defined -- outside the Garden. Anarchist dance parties, fundamentalist street preachers against Bush, lost souls on the march, and more, including the best protest sign from the RNC.
Best Blog: Eschaton
Best Writing: Talking Points Memo
Best Group Blog: Eschaton
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Adventus
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole
Best New Blog Adventus
Here are a number of nominations for "Best Post", most from my blog Left I on the News, and the last two from other blogs:
"Foreign fighters"
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_lefti_archive.html#109468704935913400
"If a tree falls in the forest..." (about free speech)
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_lefti_archive.html#109099308025599045
"Downing St.: 'Left I on the News had it right'"
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_lefti_archive.html#109024748877469007
"Capitalism kills"
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_lefti_archive.html#108846942382523823
"Killing at a Distance"
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_lefti_archive.html#108432032868025121
"Apologies and other unsaid things"
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_lefti_archive.html#108412102932776826
"The 'Disappeared' in Iraq"
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_lefti_archive.html#108385142685937044
"State of the Union - a running commentary"
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_lefti_archive.html#107466413139948414
"Hallmarks from the Edge" (from American Leftist)
http://amleft.blogspot.com/archives/2004_05_01_amleft_archive.html#108483909507592550
"Guns of August" (from Whiskey Bar/Billmon)
http://billmon.org/archives/001351.html
Because vanity knows no bounds, I'm nominating a favorite post of mine from The Revealer: "Our Magical President": How Bush goes beyond the Bible to create his own reality.
I'm certainly not an expert on the level of Juan Cole, but I've written about evangelicals for Harper's and the Dallas Morning News, and published about new agers in my first book, so I figure I'm in a good position to tease out the odd theological themes in Bush's rhetoric that Ron Suskind and everyone else seems to have missed.
Posted by: Jeff Sharlet at December 13, 2004 11:33 PMMost Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Legal Fiction http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com
Most Humorous Blog
Fafblog http://fafblog.blogspot.com
Best overall blog
Talking Points Memo http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com
Best Blog: Eschaton
Best Writing: Orcinus
Best Series: "The Rise of Pseudo-Fascism" - Orcinus
Single issue blog: Riverbend
Funniest: World O' Crap(hon. mention: Rude Pundit)
Group: MyDD
New: Wolcott
Funniest blog: Fafblog (fafblog.blogspot.com)
Funniest Post: Pandagon Insert Snarky Title here
http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/001749.html
Best Blog and Best writing: Digby at Hullabaloo (digbysblog.blogspot.com)
Deserves recognition: Feministe (www.feministe.us/blog)
Best Commenter: howard
Best group blog: Crooked Timber
Posted by: J at December 13, 2004 11:43 PMBest Blog: I have to agree it's Eschaton
Best New Blog
First Draft - www.first-draft.com
Graduates of guest blogging on Eschaton, and the new home of Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle, Where's Holden's Bush Boom, and the Happy Democrat Photo of the day! It's the second or third place I go now, every day. *waves to Tena, Holden, pie, and Athenae!*
Best Group Blog: DailyKos.com. It seems like a group blog now. And it really is great because of it!
Best Single Issue Blog
http://boycottsbg.com/ for the amount of work done and the effect Nick had. We even sort of had a victory with that issue.
Most Humorous Blog
Attaturk of course! rising-hegemon.blogspot.com
Not always humerous, some serious stuff as well, but man, he kills me.
That's what I have for now. I'm too lazy to make my links into links. It's late - I'm going to bed!
Posted by: Lynne at December 13, 2004 11:44 PMBest Blog: T.P.M.
Best Writing: The Poor Man
Best Series: Orcinus-"The Rise of Pseudo Fascism"
Most Humorous: Fafblog
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Crooks and Liars
funniest blog ever: fafblog.blogspot.com
Posted by: bex at December 13, 2004 11:48 PMBest Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: Talking Points Memo
Best post: Fuck the South
Best single issue: Juan Cole
Best Group Blog: Low Culture
Most Humorous Blog: Decadent West
Most Humorous Post: Low Culture - The O.C. post after election: http://www.lowculture.com/archives/shallow/occentric/index.html
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Chapati Mystery
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole
Best New Blog: Chapati Mystery
Best Blog: atrios.blogspot.com
Best Expert Blog:www.juancole.com
Best Photos in a Blog:rising-hegemon.blogspot.com
Best Deserving of Wider Recognition:nocapital.blogspot.com
Best Humorous Blog: rudepundit.blogspot.com
Best Writing:jameswolcott.com
Best Personal Journal:riverbend.blogspot.com
Best Single Issue Blog:a tie between dailywarnews.blogspot.com and abuaarkvark.typepad.com
Best Professional Journalist Blog:empirenotes.org
Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: Billmon (if he still counts)
Most Humorous Blog: Chase me ladies, I'm in the cavalry
Best Expert Blog:Max Speak
All blogs I felt worthy have already been nominated, except one - Best Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Posted by: Dean H at December 14, 2004 12:16 AMBest Blog: Eschaton. Still the indispensable one.
Best Writing: James Wolcott
Best Post: Pericles' "Terrorist Strategy 101: A Quiz" on DailyKos.
Best Series: Kevin Drum's (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_12/005316.php) doing a very good job in the month of December exposing the right-wingers' bullshit WRT Social Security.
Best Commenter: Probably SWR on Eschaton.
Best Guest Blogger: Charles Pierce on Altercation. If he ever got his own blog, I'd read it every damn day.
Best New Blog: My own brand-new blog, Mercury Rising, in which I note the cool (and sometimes not so cool) things other lefty bloggers do, and also put in some text of my own that I hope is relevant.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman at December 14, 2004 12:19 AMExpert blog:
War and Piece
Best Blog
Hullabaloo (Digby)
Best Writing
Hullabaloo (Digby)
Best Single Issue Blog
Orcinus (Dave Neiwert)
Best Group Blog and Blog Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Most Humorous Blog
Fafblog!
Most Humorous Post
"Concession Speech," Fanatical Apathy (Adam Felber)
Best Expert Blog
Juan Cole
Best New Blog
Majikthise (Lindsay Beyerstein) (A little nepotism there, but what can you do?)
Best Commenter
John Emerson
Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: James Wolcott
Best Post: TBogg's Exit Interview
Best Series: TBogg's America's Worst Mother
Best Single Issue Blog: Kevin Sites
Best Group Blog: Catch
Most Humorous Blog: TBogg
Most Humorous Post: Catch's Alter This: In Defense of Internment
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Democratic Veteran
Best Expert Blog: Informed Comment
Best New Blog: James Wolcott
Best Blog: Josh Marshall (on fire since the election)
Best Writing: THe Decembrist,
Best Writing Digby
Best Writing: Jeanne D'arc
Best Series: Marshall's Delay Handful
Best Series: Delong's why can't we have a better newmedia....
Best Single Issue Blog: Delong
Best Group Blog: Fafblog - love that Medium Lobster... Or is Fafblog a parody of a group blog written by one? Either way to adopt the proper idiom, it needs nominatin'...
"Most Deserving of Wider Recognition"
Rob's Blog (shameless plug)
The Political Forecast (insightful, well written, damn perceptive, and of course left :)
Tom Coburn Is A Big Fat Jerk (if not for this blog, I'd have never heard of Tom Coburn or what a jerk he truly is...and Cookie also has a very firm grasp of economics and why Bush is really screwing us big-time)
the stinging nettle (into the minds of fundamentalists, and other good insights; if not for the nettle, I'd probably have missed the "We're Sorry" site :)
"Best Series"
Lion's Den (his outstanding "Understanding the South" series should be required reading for the DNC)
Most Humorous Post: Osama VS Vizzini:
http://guywiththecoat.com/life/index.php?p=57
Most Humorous Blog:
The President's Blog
http://presidentgeorgebush.blogspot.com/
Best Blog: Pandagon
Best Writing: Ornicus
Best Post: The Political and the Personal
Best Series: Josh Marshall's work on the matter of Valerie Plame.
Best Single Issue Blog: Talk Left
Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber
Most Humorous Blog: Fafblog!
(or Michelle Malkin's blog, if you allow unintentional funnies)
Most Humorous Post: So Your City Is Full Of Republicans!
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: slackivist
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole
Best New Blog: James Wolcott
Best Blog: It would have been a harder choice until the whole Beinart snafu. Then I remembered why Atrios is the Dumbledore of the blogosphere. (atrios.blogspot.com)
Best Writing: Publius at Legal Fiction (www.lawandpolitics.blogspot.com) and of course, Kevin Drum (www.washingtonmonthly.com)
Best Series: Eric Muller, a prof at UNC Law, systematically rips Michelle Malkin a new puppethole over her defense of japanese internment here. (http://www.isthatlegal.org/Muller_and_Robinson_on_Malkin.html). Oliver Willis should also get a nomination for Brand Democrat. (http://oliverwillis.com/branddemocrat/)
Best Single Issue: ACSBlog (www.acsblog.org)
Best Group: Lawyers, Guns and Money (lefarkins.blogspot.com)
Most Humorous Blog: Fafblog (fafblog.blogspot.com)
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Seeing The Forest (seetheforest.blogspot.com)
Best Expert Blog: Max Sawicky (http://www.maxspeak.org/mt/), Brad Delong (http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/) and Juan Cole
Best New Blog: You encouraged self-promotion, so I'll nominate myself, Julie Saltman (saltman.blogspot.com), although John Aravosis (americablog.blogspot.com) deserves it more than I do.
Best Blog
Roger Ailes
Best Writing
Michael Berube, James Wolcott
Most Humorous Blog
TBogg, Roger Ailes
Most deserving of Wider Recognition
Roger Ailes
Best New Blog
James Wolcott
Best Blog: Eschaton
Best Writer Since Billmon Bailed: Digby of Hullabaloo
Best Group Blog: First Draft
Best New Blog: America Blog
Funniest Blog: The Rude Pundit
Best Series Blog: TPM with any issue JMM sinks his DC teeth into. Loved the 'Shays Handful' expose. Or maybe Steve Soto of the Left Coaster with his intrepid galloping over Gallup's internals.
Best Commentor: Lime Rickey
Best Log of Blogs: The Daou Report
Funniest, Most Commercially Successful and Widely Quoted Blog That Doesn't Exist, But God, If Only It Did: Jon Stewart's The Daily Blog
Most Humorous Blog
Blamebush
Best Blog - Political Animal
Best Writing - Ken Layne
Best Post - Ken Layne - The God of War, Death, and Madness
Best Single Issue Blog - Juan Cole
Best Series - Katherine's series on Maher Arar, extraordinary rendition, and America's slow but steady creep towards the legitimization of torture.
Best Group Blog - Crooked Timber
Most Humorous Post - From Fafblog, The Legend of Benjamin Healy.
Best Expert Blog - Brad Delong
Best New Blog - Legal Fiction
Best Commenter - Praktike
Most Humorous Blog
Blamebush
For Humorous blog: Words for My Enjoyment at http://pauldavidson.blogs.com
For Best New Blog: Something Requisitely Witty and Urbane at http://alvintostig.typepad.com
Best Blog: Atrios
Best Post: Posted on Kos, Terrorism Quiz at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/10/01247/557
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Waiter Rant at http://waiterrant.blogspot.com
Best Commentator: Talking Points Memo
Posted by: chance at December 14, 2004 01:01 AMBest Blog
Legal Fiction
Insightful, precise. You haven't thought of all the historical analogies and cultural background for an issue until you read Publius. oh yeah and he knows the law too.
Best Single Issue Blog
Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal.
Best Group Blog
Crooked timber, hands down.
Most Humorous Blog
Jesus' General
Best Expert Blog
Angry Bear
Best New Blog
IliveinMinnesota.blogspot.com
What about a "best comment" category?
Posted by: social democrat at December 14, 2004 01:27 AMBest Blog - Daily Kos
Best Writing - Talking Points Memo
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition -
AmericaBlog http://www.americablog.org
Best New Blog -
AmericaBlog
http://www.americablog.org
Most humorous post: Hitchens' Double Bluff Irony Impasse
Posted by: Chrissy-wissy-woo at December 14, 2004 01:50 AMMost humorous blog and most deserving of wider recognition:
Full of righteous (or should that be lefteous?) anger against the wingnuts. When he is on a roll, he is very reminiscent of H.L. Mencken but more readable and funnier.
Posted by: tclguru at December 14, 2004 01:52 AMBest post: What the DNC Must Do: A Comprehensive Framework by dailykos diarist daunte.
Best humorous blog: fafblog
Best humorous blog: The Poor Man
Best blog and best blog in need of wider recognition: http://amsam.org/ American Samzidat. I'm just a reader there, but i love the posts/links and the pinch of rage that's there every once in a while.
Posted by: Andrew at December 14, 2004 02:21 AMBest new blog: Night Light
Best humorous blog: Mr. Sun
Best expert blog: Juan Cole
Best commenter: Matt Stoller
Most deserving of wider recognition: Night Light
Best Blog
The Eschaton
Best Group Blog
Fistful of Euros
(their post on Tired of "Old Europe, New Europe" even summoned a certain law professor in the comments)
Best Writer
Tristero, Fair and Balanced and sadly closed
Best (almost) single-issue Blog
Peking Duck
(and though it's not a category, I see a few nominations)
Best Log of Blogs (lefty)
The Eschatonians, v. 0.1 an aggregator of some guest hosts and frequent blogwhores at The Eschaton.
Best Blog: Talking Points Memo
Best Writing: Digby
Best Series: Hobson's Choice "W.E.B. Du Bois" (8 parts)
Best Single Issue Blog: Jesus' General (Heterosexual Patriotism)
Best Group Blog: Needlenose
Most Humorous Blog: TBogg
Most Humorous Post: Norbizness "Made Up Demographics"
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Timshel
Best Expert Blog: Informed Comment
Best New Blog: Empire Notes
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Posted by: richard at December 14, 2004 03:25 AMBest Blog:
atrios
best single issue:
baghdad burning
best group:
progressive blog alliance
most humorous:
jesus' general
most deserving of wider recognition
empire notes
expert blog:
juan cole
new blog:
well, mine of course: angrywhitekid.blogs.com/weblog
Best Directors Who Never Received an Oscar: Alfred Hitchcock & John Sayles
Best Actor & Studio Rebel who Never Won an Acting Oscar: Read who and why
Why I wish some blog categories separated the paid professional journalists from the rest: Talking Points Memo, James Wolcott, Back to Iraq 2.0, Kevin Sites' Blog, and others gain professional rewards for their efforts and come into amateur Olympics like this with all the advantages of a Dream Team.
Why Nothing I Do Blogwise Deserves Nominations: I've been harping on so many other awards for (a) getting out word of nominations poorly, so they're closed before ya heard of the voting underway, (b) non-objectivity in judging, sometimes open to being gamed, (c) the notion of one 'best' is simply so much nonsense, (d) whole categories are missing that leave some out, and (e) the explosion of blogs has produced such a quality stream that it's darn near impossible to single some out with so many deserving.
Categories I wish you'd included: The Drysdale Award for Best Righty, Most Artistic (can be for design, photos or artwork), Best Blogger-invented Phrase or Word, Best Blogging Platform, Tool, Add-on, Plug-in or Appliance for Bloggers or Readers (sort of a technical achievement award), Best blogger-produced video, Best blogging cartoonist.
I also think there oughta be: (a) multiple awards in each category, like First/Second/Third, (b)an awards committee composed of past winners who would have two duties, selecting the winners of the best new blogs, and creating a Koufax Hall of Fame that inducts 3 to 5 blogging pioneers or multi-winners to a permanent status (thereby making certain some greats are honored and reducing - but not eliminating - fresh awards to them when they're simply drawing votes on the strength of vast popularity as first movers.
Why things I do blogwise deserve consideration for awards: I designed last year's award. My group blogs recruit known talents and rising stars equally and multiple nominees occur for the efforts of both in the past two years, both at Open Source Politics and The American Street. Also, I'm kind to puppies, kitties, my Mom and retarded Righties who drool.
Best Comment: this one. Geeze, do I hafta point out the obvious to you, grasshopper?
What Categories The American Street can be considered for: I'm grateful to several who nominated us for best group blog. But we also were a new blog in 2004 (began 1/12/04). In addition to a weekly feature of humorists that include Jesus' General, Tom Burka and Fafblog!, Barbara Sehr, Ayn Clouter, Corey Anderson and Happy Funball have emerged in their own comic rights.(And while others are loafing and comparing cats, these folks are yukking it up for y'all every Friday) But alas, there's no category for Best Weekly Event by a blog.
So, are you actually gonna nominate anyone, Kevin?: What, and piss off some regulars that I don't nominate that I like as much? Okay, maybe, but not in this comment.
Am I done yet?: No, I want to thank Marybeth, Eric and Dwight for doing this contest annually. It outshines the Webbies, imo. I do hope you'll note deadlines for nominations and voting, right up front, so the word will reach far and wide and be more inclusive. I hope you'll also mention regularly a way to donate to your site to help absorb any added bandwidth costs. Also, what are you wearing?
Posted by: Kevin Hayden at December 14, 2004 03:52 AMFor Expert Blog: Wampum, for teaching us more about autism than the whole freaking country ever did before, even though I worked in mental health for a few years. And additionally, there's no blog I've found yet that does as much to cover American Indian issues. So they have expertise in two distinct areas. (And if you disqualify yourself, tough. You still won my award for opening up your lives to speak of these important matters).
Posted by: Kevin Hayden at December 14, 2004 03:57 AMBest Single Issue Blog: isbushwired.com (now ended(?))
Posted by: Hermes at December 14, 2004 03:58 AMBest Blog: Atrios
Best Group Blog: Corrente
Best Series: Tena and Athaena's debate blogging on First Draft
Most Humorous: TBogg
Most Humorous Post: The Farmer's "I killed Satan" on Corrente
Posted by: Nieves at December 14, 2004 04:17 AMbest writing: While not political in the traditional sense, Flea's daily posts about her personal life and familiy history are often quite meanifully political (lefty) in their own way. And her writing can be truly extraordinary. One Good Thing: buggydoo.blogspot.com
best group blog: scoop.agonist.org
best post: bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/2004/09/bitches_and_pus.html
(Jeanne's written better posts this year, but this one started a long, interesting, miraculously civil discussion, while raising an issue within the left blogosphere. She also gets my nomination for Miss Congeniality.)
most deserving of wider recognition: www.mahablog.com
most missed: tristero.blogspot.com
Posted by: Anna Wiseman at December 14, 2004 04:29 AMBest Blog: Atrios
Best Humor Blog: The Poor Man - he makes me laugh even louder than Tbogg
Funniest Post: One of Fafnir's from Fafblog. Either "choose your own adventure" which was pretty recent or the one on "the new science"..
Didn't you have a Best Conservative or Non-Liberal category last year? I would nominate Arthur Silber's The Light of Reason as consistently best written non-liberal blog.
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole again.
Best Written: This is the hardest category. Probably Making Light by Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
Best Series of Posts: Have to think about this one.
Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber or Corrente
Best New Blog: I have so many old ones to read I have not investigated many new ones; I belong to a new group one for progressive Muslims called Ihsan but it jsut started 2 weeks ago, and I recently discovered The Corpuscle which has some pretty good writing and is quirky.
Best Commenter: I usually like what Praktike has to say, also Zizka, Pie and Tena who all comment on Eschaton regularly.
Most Humorous Blog: since others have nominated the geniuses of our General JC Christian, Fafblog and Tom Burka, plus folks like TBOGG, Andrew Northrup at The Poor Man, World of Crap, RudePundit, Norbizness, Sadly, No!, Fanatical Apathy and others, I'll nominate others that deserve consideration:
Barbara Sehr of Lifting the Fog (and TAS)
Ayn Clouter of Ayn Clouter's Blog (and TAS)
Corey Anderson of American Idle (and TAS)
Happy Funball of The Un-Common Tater (and TAS)
Go Fug Yourself (I don't care if it's not lefty, it's viciously fun)
The White House.org
MadKane Notables
Pesky the Rat
Borowitz Report
Utter Wonder
This Modern World
Neal Pollack (who's back and looking for help with a site re-design)
Troubletown
Buck Fush
SlowpokeComics.com
InContemptComics.com
and, to give some leaders a run for their money,
gapingvoid
FreewayBlogger.com
and...
Get Your War On
(see what I mean by so much excellence? I think they're all winners... and each can lift my spirits when Bush puts on his Darth Vader undies and stomps kittens)
Here it is, including some shameless self-promotion
Best Blog:
Legal Fiction: http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/
Total Information Awareness: http://www.tianews.blogspot.com/
Pharyngula: http://pharyngula.org/
Majikthise: http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/
Orcinus: http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/
Hullaballoo: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
Julie Saltman: http://saltman.blogspot.com/
Best Writing
Legal Fiction: http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/
Total Information Awareness: http://www.tianews.blogspot.com/
Rude Pundit: http://rudepundit.blogspot.com
Best Post
Freedom Fighters: http://tianews.blogspot.com/2004/10/freedom-fighters.html
On Hard and Soft: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2004_12_12_digbysblog_archive.html#110291125525651166
My queer identity
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/12/09/my_queer_identity.html#004449
Two Americas: Past, Present and Future: http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/two-americas-past-present-and-future.html
Moral Politics in the Context of History of Marriage: http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/08/moral-politics-in-context-of-history.html
Smoke Signals, Blogs, and Future of Politics: http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/08/smoke-signals-blogs-and-future-of.html
Best Series
What Would Darwin Do:
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/12/wwdd-what-would-darwin-do-or.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/12/wwdd-i-darwinian-method.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/12/wwdd-ii-darwin-on-time.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/12/wwdd-iii-whence-clocks.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/12/wwdd-iv-power-of-darwinian-method.html
Orcinus: Both Series on Fascism (Rush and Bush)
Building on Lakoff:
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/08/moral-politics-in-context-of-history.htmlhttp://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/08/conservative-america.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/08/reframing-activist-judges.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/08/safires-reptilian-brain.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/08/liberal-moral-core-rush-limbaugh.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/moral-order.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/bush-is-girlie-man.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/how-to-win-conservatives-over-dont.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/war-of-worlds.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/political-brain.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/framing-is-spreading-through.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/kos-discovers-lakoff.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/nurturant-is-not-coddly.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/elephant-kicks-ass-now-so-ass-can-kick.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/fires-and-drought-are-just-gods-way-of.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/09/more-lakoffian-links.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/10/genocentrism-aids-anti-abortion.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/10/put-these-together-in-your-mind.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/10/femiphobia.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/10/why-are-post-modernistsdeconstructioni.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/10/lakoff-in-space-and-time.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/10/empire-empiricism-empowerment.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/10/links-ignorance-faith-fear-of.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/10/assault-on-higher-education-lakoffian.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/10/bush-frogs-baboons-horses-and-manic.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/strict-father-likes-some-of-his.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/election-analysis-part-i-exit-polls.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/my-feedback-message-to-dnc.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/lakoff-round-internets.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/pay-attention_10.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/election-analysis-part-ii-state-of.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/little-inconsistency.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/election-analysis-part-iii-temporal.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/citycountry-what-is-exurb.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/why-is-academia-liberal.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/rockridge-institute-online-forum.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/two-americas-past-present-and-future.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/11/one-or-two-americas.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/12/science-free-market-and-is-lakoff_03.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/12/terrorism-fascism-nativism-whats.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2004/12/enslaving-women-not-just-fundies.html
Best Single Issue Blog
Chris Mooney (Politics of Science): http://www.chriscmooney.com/blog.asp
Panda's Thumb (Creationism problem):http://www.pandasthumb.org/
Best Group Blog
JRE GRassroots: http://www.jregrassroots.org/
Rockridge Forums: http://forum.rockridgeinstitute.org/
Panda's Thumb:http://www.pandasthumb.org/
PBA :http://pbahq.smartcampaigns.com/
Most Humorous Blog
Rude Pundit:http://rudepundit.blogspot.com
Most Humorous Post
anything by Rude Pundit: http://rudepundit.blogspot.com
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Legal Fiction: http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/
Total Information Awareness: http://www.tianews.blogspot.com/
Majikthise: http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/
Julie Saltman: http://saltman.blogspot.com/
Best Expert Blog
The Loom: http://www.corante.com/loom/
Evolution Blog: http://evolutionblog.blogspot.com/
Best New Blog
East Ethnia: http://eastethnia.blogspot.com/
Neogaidaros: http://neogaidaros.blogspot.com/
This Is Not A Pipe: http://notapipe.blogspot.com/
Total Information Awareness: http://www.tianews.blogspot.com/
Science and Politics: http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/
Best Commenter
johnnybutter (many places, including Legal Fiction, TIA, Sci. and Polit., etc.)
Oh and for humor, I also nominate SHRILLBLOG.
Good luck defining the funniest of three dozen or more great nominees!
Posted by: Kevin Hayden at December 14, 2004 05:13 AMBest Blog: ThisModernWorld - I know it won't win but it's the one that got me started reading blogs so I thought it should get a nod.
Best Group Blog: AmericaBlog - Fast becoming one of my favorites.
Best Writing: TalkingPointsMemo - I had a tough time with this, but Josh Marshall's writing is almost always clear and precise.
Best Single Issue Blog: Juan Cole or TalkLeft - A tossup.
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time - Yes, my own; my big hope is that I won't be the only one to mention it.
Best Post: I never know what to say for this since I usually don't remember specific posts. So I'm going to selfishly list a few of mine, which at least were easy to find.
Happy Anniversary
Eating our own
Yellow cake with non-fat, sugar free, vanilla frosting
Deja vu vu vu, part 2
On the duty of defiance
I just want to second the nomination of Steve Clemons' http://www.thewashingtonnote.com as best new blog. (Even though I hope that in the end the Rude Pundit will win in a clean sweep)
Posted by: tc at December 14, 2004 06:04 AMBest blog? I'll have to say Bloggerheads, as it inspired me to start myself.
Best New Blog? I'll immodestly nominate my own, Europhobia - assuming I qualify (I set it up in 2003, but only really started posting this year after a hefty redesign).
Best post - I'll again be immodest, and go for my discussion of European vs American responses to terrorism.
Posted by: Nosemonkey at December 14, 2004 06:07 AMFunniest - Lickin' Bush in '04 at http://lickinbushin04.blogspot.com
Deserving of more recognition and funniest - How To Law School at http://howtolawschool.blogspot.com
Posted by: Kevin at December 14, 2004 06:24 AMNominations, including some shameless self-promotion:
Best blong: Daily Kos
Best writing: Crooked Timber, Orcinus
Best series: Obsidion Wings for their recent series on torture by proxy, or (self promotion) No Right Turn for series on NZ's Civil Union ("gay marriage in drag") bill or the imprisonment of Ahmed Zaoui (which you probably won't have heard about over there).
Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: (self promotion) No Right Turn, New Zealand's second-best liberal blog.
Best Post: Kevin, of Lean Left, in this thread on Crooked Timber (December 3, 2004 11:53 PM). There's also another good post on that thread, by Dan hardie (December 5, 2004 04:53 PM).
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole, Brad DeLong
Finally, I'd suggest a "best international" category, to avoid things being swamped by the mostly US blog readership. And of course I'd nominate myself :)
Posted by: Idiot/Savant at December 14, 2004 06:30 AMI agree with most of the overwhelming choices for Best Blog.
I'm going to nominate myself for Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Bark Bark Woof Woof.
Posted by: Mustang Bobby at December 14, 2004 06:47 AMBest Writing: http://www.somewhatsilent.com Somewhat Silent
Best Group Blog: My DD (link everywhere!)
Best blog: DailyKos (link everywhere!)
Most deserving of wider recognition: http://www.thecore4.com The Core 4 It's my own blog - what the hell, I'd like a few more readers.
Posted by: Tito at December 14, 2004 07:16 AMBest New Blog
Natasha Tynes' Mental Mayhem
(http://natashatynes.com)
Posted by: James at December 14, 2004 07:26 AMMost Deserving of wider recognition
Why Are We Back in Iraq
Best Single Issue Blog
Raw Story Editor's Blog
Best New Blog
Watching The Watchers
~A!
Posted by: ~A! at December 14, 2004 07:53 AMI nominate The Noodle Incident for Most Deserving of Wider Recognition.
http://thenoodleincident.blogspot.com
Posted by: Ted Sawchuck at December 14, 2004 08:01 AMBest Blog: Newshounds: We watch Fox so you don't have to
Best Writing: Rude Pundit
Worst attempt to sound like Rude Pundit but instead coming off as no better than the vicious right: Fuck the South
Best Series: Rude Pundit's "Christ Weary" series:
Part One (Personal History)
Part Two (Fucking Falwell)
Part 2 cont'd
Part 3 (Southern Baptists Are Just Sooooooo Cute)
Part 4 (The Weary Speak)
A Circus of Faith
More Tales of the Christ Weary
And more to come
Best Single Issue Blog: The Daily DeLay
Best Group Blog: Blondesense
Best Humorous Blog: Jesus' General
Best Humorous Post: never be able to pick
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Rox Populi or Mousewords
Best Expert Blog: Informed Consent
Best New Blog: American Bodhisattva
Best Commenter: RGE of several blogs
In case no one else nominated them (looks like you've covered the obvious):
Most deserving of wider recognition: The consummate blogwhore himself, Attaturk -- Rising Hegemon
Best commenter: rememberinggiap. Reading his comments is a surreal and fantastical experience in and of itself. And so much easier since he started using paragraphs.
Most humorous post -- Pandagon's Insert Snarky Title Here from 4/1/04. If we can't laugh at ourselves, what good are we?
And of course, Best Blog to Go Down in a Blaze of Glory -- billmon's Whiskey Bar. Still miss him. I still check back once in a while... y'know, just in case.
Best post: Meteor Blades, Freedom
Summer and 2004
Best writing:
Charles Pierce's 'Slacker Friday' contributions to Alterman's Altercation.
Funniest:
Jesus' General
I wish there was an award for Original Reporting:
That would be Juan Cole and/or Josh Marshal.
Best blog:
I'll have to go with DKos, just for the wealth of contributors.
I agree with Anders:
Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: James Wolcott
Best Post: TBogg's Exit Interview (in a word: fabulous)
Most Humorous Blog: TBogg and Jesus' General
Best Single Issues Blog: Talkleft
Posted by: debbie at December 14, 2004 08:44 AMSince most of the people/blogs I would have nominated have already been picked, I'll just narrow it down to a few that haven't been mentioned.
Best Blog: Hullabaloo. Okay, I cheated already. I know he's been nominated for this, but his pre and post election analysis this year was spotless. No one "gets it" better than Digby. If he was running the DNC, we could all relax now.
Best Post: TBogg's What Kevin Drum is too nice to say... post. A perfect takedown in one paragraph.
Most Humorous Post: My friend Dan's Founding Flamers because it's timeless and really creative.
Best Commenter (Poputonian) and Most Deserving of Wider Recognition (Kidding on the Square). First he was a commenter I always enjoyed stumbling across and then he was a blogger. A wise man. In addition: special recognition for Gen. JC Christian and Norbizness' comments on wingnut blogs.
Longest Extended Vacation With No Remorse: Catch.com. 37 days and counting. Free time, what a concept.
Category I Wish You Had: Best Interview. Because it's the only one I might have had a shot at winning.
I'll stop there.
Posted by: Kevin K. at December 14, 2004 08:44 AMI'd like to know more about the methodology of the Awards system. Are all the nominees going to be up for voting, or those with most nominations?
Also, seconding a previous comment, I'd like to see the pros and semi-pros, i.e., the Biggies, either separated in their own section, or disqualified. Who can beat Atrios, Kos, Marshall, Drum, Cole, Wonkette and Yglesias? Not fair! Also, if a blog does not allow comments - is it a blog at all?
The list of categories, quite joyfully, resembles Borges' "Chinese Classification of Animals", so why not make more categories? How about these (from the top of my head):
Most palatable Rightie blog (my vote: http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/)
Best non-President campaign blog
Best Election Coverage
Best blog with no politics whatsoever
Best religion blog
Best atheist blog (perhaps: http://www.ravingatheist.com/)
Best non-USA blog
Best photo blog
Best Forum (http://www.jregrassroots.org/jre)
Best personal journal/diary
Best academic blog (http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/)
Best science blog (e.g.,http://www.gruts.com/darwin/
http://evolvethought.blogspot.com/
http://jgrr.blogspot.com/
http://davidappell.com/
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/
http://science_boy.blogspot.com/....)
Best philosophy blog (e.g., http://branemrys.blogspot.com/
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/
http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter/)
Best book blog
Best music blog
Best education blog
Best medical blog
Best sex/erotic blog (there are many tasty ones that do not cross the line into porn, e.g.,
http://www.erosblog.com/
http://girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com/
http://www.kntconfessions.blog-city.com/)
The most thorough news-linking blog (That's all Wonkette is, really)
The most original thinker
The best interdisciplinary/hybrid blog (e.g., best meshing of politics and science, or philosophy and politics, or history and science..., how about:
http://pharyngula.org/
or my blog?)
The quickest-loading blog
....just ideas, perhaps for next year.
Posted by: coturnix at December 14, 2004 08:46 AMI forgot to do best commenter above.
Best commenter: quisp
Posted by: Julie at December 14, 2004 08:46 AMBest Blog: Atrios
Best Humor Blog: Fafblog
Funniest Post: Shrillblog (to give it its due): "Eric Dezenhall is unclear on the concept: A Plea for Tolerance and Understanding"
Best Expert Blog: Brad de Long.
Best Written: Michael Berube.
Best Series of Posts: Orcinus, the fascist series (both)
Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber
Best Single Issue: The Daily Howler on 'our' media
Posted by: Too Kind By Half at December 14, 2004 08:52 AMyikes! ok- without reading, which of course i will...everyone is here!
best: atrios.
writing: dave neiwart.
series: colonialism, steve gilliard.
single issue: riverbend.
group: c. scientia (sorry, can't resist!)
humor: jesus' general
deserving wider recog: head heeb.
expert: chris floyd
new: does americablog make this category?
commenter: tie: K&Y of many, tena of atrios/FD.
gay: americablog.
black: gilliard.
i'm ashamed to say i can't think of a women's site for that category (which there should be).
Someone up thread nominated one of my posts for "best post" but didn't have the URL - here it is:
The Election Made Simple
http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2004/10/the_election_ma.html
As for my nominations, I'll save bandwidth and avoid the obvious duplications...
Best Writing: John and Belle, and Tim Burke
Funniest: Fafblog, and Michael Berube
Best Expert: Ruy Texeria, and - why not - how about me (Abu Aardvark)
Best Commentor: Praktike deserves all those nominations
HPFST w/ Norbizness for Funniest
HFPST's deconstruction of Bush's question-and-answer periods for Best Series
First Draft for Best Group
Rising Hegemon for Best New
Steve Gilliard for best (pissed off) writing
Best Blog: South Knox Bubba
Posted by: Steve Plonk at December 14, 2004 09:05 AMI'd like to toss Matt Yglesias and Kevin Drum into the mix for best blog. Both of their sites are generally must-reads.
Posted by: Andrew at December 14, 2004 09:08 AMBest blog: Sozadee CA
Posted by: The Messenger at December 14, 2004 09:17 AMbest blog boing boing
best new blog james wolcott
funniest james wolcott
best writing crooked timber
Best Post: TBogg's Exit Interview
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition Obsidian Wings
Best: DailyKos
Writing: too many here
Group: http://www.politicalstrategy.org (a daily read: consistently good writing, credibility, and politics
Humor: "Twas the Nightmare Before Inauguration" at http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/000839.php
also, the above group blog for most deserving of wider recognition
Expert: Josh Marshall
New: Daou Report
Best Writing - Michael Berube online
Posted by: Barringer at December 14, 2004 09:47 AMOne more for best expert blog: Pharyngula by PZ Myers (http://pharyngula.org/)
Posted by: Julie at December 14, 2004 09:48 AMBest Blog - Pandagon
Best Writing - Josh Marshall
Best Post - "Top 27 Pieces of Evidence that Show Rice Perjured Herself in Front of the 9/11 Commission: A Reference for Seekers of Truth"
(http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/000019.php by Tom Ball)
Best Series –
Extended Series – Media Snake Oil Series from Bill Hare (10 parts so far) http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/cat_media_snake_oil.php
Best Group Blog – Political Strategy
http://www.politicalstrategy.org/
Most Humorous Blog – Opinions You Should Have at http://www.tomburka.com/
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition – Political Strategy
http://www.politicalstrategy.org/
Best Blog: Left I on the News
Best Writing: Baghdad Burning
Best Single-Issue Blog: Lawrence of Cyberia
Best Group Blog: First Draft
Most Humorous Blog: Whatever It Is, I'm Against It
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Left I on the News
Best Expert Blog: TalkLeft (which in my opinion doesn't qualify as a single-issue blog; it's much broader than that)
Best New Blog: Under the Same Sun
Best Blog: Daily Kos
Best Writing: Talking Points Memo
Best Single-Issue Blog: Juan Cole/Baghdad Burning - I can't decide!!
Best Group Blog: Daily Kos
Most Humorous Blog: Rudepundit
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Pandagon
Best Expert Blog: (See single issue cat.)
Best Blog that never was: LGF Watch Watch Watch
Most Humorous Post: "This or That"
http://krupsjustsayin.blogspot.com/2004/10/this-or-that.html
(it's a video; not sure if that's technically a post but it's a damn funny video)
Posted by: Nick at December 14, 2004 11:01 AMMost Humorous Post: "This or That"
http://krupsjustsayin.blogspot.com/2004/10/this-or-that.html
(it's a video; not sure if that's technically a post but it's a damn funny video)
Posted by: Nick at December 14, 2004 11:01 AMBest Blog: Send Duncan to the Hall of Fame just to keep it fair and crown Digby as the new king.
Best Single Issue Blog: I'm torn between Jay Rosen's PressThink and Jordan Barab's Confined Space. Jordan by a hair.
Best Humor Blog: Tbogg, Roger Ailes or Fafblog!
Best Writing: Digby
Deserving of Wider Recognition: Why, that would be me, Suburban Guerrilla. www.suburbanguerrilla.blogspot.com
Best Post: What a coincidence! That would be me, too, for "A Dog Chasing A Car."
http://suburbanguerrilla.blogspot.com/2004/01/dog-chasing-carletter-from-roy-neel.html
I really, really wish there was a category for Best Headlines...
Best Blog; Daily Kos
Best Writing: three-way tie --- James Wolcott/Majikthise/Panda's Thumb
Best Single Issue Blog: Panda's Thumb/Juan Cole (I also can't decide!)
Best Group Blog: MyDD/Panda's Thumb
Most Humorous: ???
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Progressive Blog Digest/Rob's Blog
Best Expert Blog: Panda's Thumb
Sorry for all the ties, but some are real toss ups for me!
Posted by: Cookie at December 14, 2004 11:10 AMMost deserving of wider recognition: A Fistful of Euros.
Best Group blog: A Fistful of Euros.
Best writing: A Fistful of Euros.
Best series: A Fistful of Euros. for our coverage of the Orange Revolution.
best blog: Road To Surfdom
most humorous blog: Fafblog
best single issue: pharmawatch.blogspot.com
best group blog: Troppo Armadillo
most deserving of wider recognition: Is it wrong to wish on space hardware? (www.darpism.com)
Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: Digby
Best Series: Cheers and Jeers on DailyKos
Best Post: Juan Cole's 'If Iraq were the US'
Best Single Issue Blog: Political Animal
Best Group Blog: Pandagon
Best Group Blog: Fafblog
Most Humorous Post: Fafblog's 'Arab vs. Pepsi'
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole
Best New Blog: James Wolcott
Best Blog
Atrios
Best Writing
Fafblog
Best Series
Katherine's "Extraordinary Rendition" on ObWings
Best Group Blog
Crooked Timber
Most Humorous Blog
Fafblog
Most Humorous Post
Fafblog's the legend of Benjamin Healy:
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
uh... Cleek !!! (not really. consider this blank :) )
Best New Blog
Obsidian Wings
Best Commenter
Praktike
Best writing - James Wolcott
http://jameswolcott.com/
Best new blog - James Wolcott
Most overlooked blog - First Draft
http://www.first-draft.com/
Most humorous - fafblog
Best group blog - Corrente
http://corrente.blogspot.com/
Best Series - Kevin Drum on Social Security
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_12/005316.php
Suggestion for new category: Best blog by chilluns under 25. Nomination - either Jesse and Ezra or Matt Yglesias.
Posted by: flory at December 14, 2004 11:46 AMBest Blog(s) (tie): Daily Kos (for OCD posting without typos!); Atrios (keep those cat photos coming!)
Most Humorous: The Rude Pundit (has read his Wilhelm Reich)
Best New Blog: Ohio Election Fraud (nee "Fairness")
Best Series: "Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism" (linked to the invaluable www.cursor.org, and dog knows why it isn't published and distributed)
Best Blog to Make Me Think Human Extinction Ain't Such a Bad Idea: Ann "The Anorexic Traitor" Coulter
Posted by: exPacifican at December 14, 2004 12:08 PMBest Blog: Atrios and Kos are very different animals and both equally deserving in their own ways.
Best Writing: Digby.
Best Post: Hard to recall all of them, I'm certain something by Billmon would win if it's okay to nominate a no longer active blog.
Best Series: Jeffrey Feldman's Frameshop diaries on dKos or Soj's reports on the Ukrainian election at Flogging the Simian (http://www.weblog.ro/soj) (also posted as dKos diaries)
Best Single Issue: I don't know whether it counts, but Soj's Flogging the Simian has stellar reports on an underblogged subject: the rest of the world, and the development of Democracy in particular.
Best Group: Tough one -- Pandagon, MyDD, or Political Strategy .
Most Humorous Blog: I love Gen. JC Christian (in a manly, heterosexual way, of course).
Most Deserving Wider Recognition: Political Strategy (http://www.politicalstrategy.org)
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole or Brad DeLong
Best New Blog: Political Strategy
BEST BLOG
LeftI on the News
WIDER RECOGNITION
Angry Arab News Service
Multiple nominations, please forgive my clumsiness.
Best overall: Eschaton, by Atrios
("Do, or do not. There is no try.")
www.eschaton.blogspot.com
Best expert: Adventus, by RMJ
www.rmadisonj.blogspot.com
(an ongoing treatise on liberal Christianity -- he's very new, and only by reason of having opened Adventus did he stop me nominating him as best commenter ever)
Best underappreciated -- definitely deserving of wider notice: The People's Republic of Seabrook, by Northstar at www.intellectualize.org. An independent thinker with a progressive bent and a usually-lighthearted style, Northstar can write breathtakingly emotional pieces -- see his archived work on Columbia's last mission, this summer's insistence that the world not ignore Darfur anymore, or this week's "Saying Goodbye ...".
Best group blog: First Draft by Holden, Tena, Athenae, and Pie at www.first-draft.com.
These are Eschatonian guest bloggers gone renegade together, and a fine thing it is!
Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle would make a fine nominee for series, except he's got a funnier one. There are Athenae's ferret pictures and today's Bloggy Christmas Carol for extra credit.
Best series: Holden's "My Bush Boom" at first draft. Economic reality puts administration forecasts up against the wall.
Best commenters, weird division: Kei & Yuri at atrios
Best commenter, serious division:Tie:
Robert M Jeffers and Tena
Recommendation for new category: Best Friday Life Form blogging -- the nudibranchs and miscellaneous fauna
Recommendation for 2nd new category: Best photos of domestic (?) animals: Northstar, for the cats in general but especially the outdoor poses; and Athenae, for the ferrets
Thanks
The Other Sarah
IMHO, Legal Fiction is the best lefty blog around. I nominate LF for best blog.
Posted by: Feddie at December 14, 2004 12:23 PMBest Blog: Talking Points Memo
Best Writing: The Carpetbagger Report
Best Series: "Daily Darfur" at Demagogue
Best Single Issue Blog: MaxSpeak
Best Group Blog: Pandagon
Wider Recognition: The Liquid List
Best Expert Blog: Wonkette (expert on dirt)
Best New Blog: New Donkey
I'd like to nominate my post "War President" for Best Post -- it's the mosaic of Bush composed of images of the Iraq War dead.
for Best Blog:
Cursor, if it counts as a blog.
for Best Writing:
Baghdad Burning
Apostate Windbag
for Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
American Leftist, my blog
Left I on the News
Best Blog
DailyKos
Best Post
'It's the West, Stupid"
http://libteam.com/wordpress/index.php?p=19
Best Single Issue Blog
BradBlog
Best Group Blog
LIBteam.com
Best New Blog
LIBteam.com
Best Blog: Talking Points Memo
Best Writing: Hullabaloo
Best Humor:James Wolcott
Best Single Issue Blog: Informed Comment
Best Group Blog: AmericaBlog/Corrente
Wider Recognition: King of Zembla/Carpetbagger/Corrente
Best Expert Blog: Brad DeLong
Best New Blog: James Wolcott
Most deserving of wider recognition:
Suburban Guerrilla
http://suburbanguerrilla.blogspot.com/
Best New Blog: Bouphonia
A very interesting new blog: makes me think!
Best Blog - Eschaton
Best Writing - Talking Points
Best Group - MyDD
Best Expert - Juan Cole
Best Series - Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle
Best Post - Daily Kos Blood & Treasure (focusing on the carnage that is Iraq from the New England Journal of Medicine)
Best Single Issue - Talk Left
Best Humorous - Rude Pundit
Best New - Wolcott
Best Single Issue: Baghdad Burning (River Bend)
Best Writing: Baghdad Burning
Best Series: Josh Marshall's coverage of the disappearance of explosives at Al Qa Qaa was the best example of pulling together multiple sources and stories into one coherent narrative. He could have retired right then, but who could forget his coverage of Congress/The DeLay Rule just a couple of weeks after that, when we all began talking in Marshall's terms: the Letter-writer and the Shays Handful instantly became understood shorthand, and his postings spawned at least one new blog: The Daily DeLay. So take your pick between these two.
Best Humorous Fafblog
Best Humorous post: Fafblog, laundry time
Posted by: elspi at December 14, 2004 02:01 PMFunniest post:
Farmer and Pete the Deer Kill the devil, at
www.corrente.blogspot.com
Best Blog: Daily Kos
Best Writing: Talking Points Memo
Best Humor: Skippy the Bush kangaroo
Best Single Issue Blog: Informed Comment
Best Group Blog: AmericaBlog
Best Expert Blog: Informed Comment
Best New Blog: James Wolcott
Best Blog: Pandagon
Best Writing: Hullabaloo (digby)
Best Series: Steve Gillard on Colonial Warfare
Best Single Issue Blog: Orcinus
Best Group Blog: Corrente
Most Humorous Blog: Fafblog!
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Legal Fiction
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole
Best New Blog: James Wolcott
Well, I'm going to be a total dork and nominate my own blog for (a) best new blog, (b) best expert blog (lawyer), and (c) best series/single-issue coverage (the Kerik scandal).
I am also going to nominate Fafblog's Terror... in Space! post for most humorous post. Actually, I think they need a nomination for most humorous blog in general too.
Best New Blog
Kumbaya Dammit
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Kumbaya Dammit
Correction. I wasn't aiming for the terror in space post with my fafblog nomination. I meant to nominate Posner on the Moon. It's easy to confuse the two!
Posted by: Paul Gowder at December 14, 2004 02:48 PMBest Blog - Atrios
Best Writing - James Walcott
Best Group - First Draft (Tena, Holden, Athenae, Pie)
Best Expert - Juan Cole
Best Series - I enjoy MY captions, but First Draft's Holden with the Gaggle Obsession is the nominee
Best Post - Steve Gilliard's on colonialism
Best Single Issue - Baghdad Burning
Best Humorous - Rude Pundit
Best New - Wolcott again
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition - If I don't nominate that Attaturk guy from Rising Hegemon my real personality is going to beat the living crap out of my pseudonym, so Rising Hegemon.
Best Blog: Atrios - Eschaton
Best Writing: Josh Marhsall, Digby, Billmon
Best Post: Skimble [self-nomination], "What I hate"
Best Series: Orcinus, "The Rise of Pseudo Fascism"
Best Single Issue Blog: TalkLeft
Most Humorous Blog: Jesus' General
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Avedon Carol's The Sideshow, No More Mister Nice Blog, xymphora
Best Expert Blog: TalkLeft
Best New Blog: James Wolcott
Best new blog: personal democracy forum
Best Expert blog: talking points memo
Posted by: technoblogger at December 14, 2004 02:54 PMBest Blog
Matthew Yglesias
Best Writing
Mouse Words (read her critiques of advice columns!)
Best Single Issue Blog
Alas, A Blog (Feminism)
Best Group Blog
Pandagon
Most Humorous Blog
Fafblog
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Foreign Dispatches
Best Expert Blog
P. Z. Myers (biology)
Best New Blog
Majikthise
Best Commenter
Bob McManus
Best Series: Convention Diary from Bark Bark Woof Woof.
Posted by: Mustang Bobby at December 14, 2004 03:11 PMBest Blog: Atrios - Eschaton
Best Writing: Suburban Guerilla (Susan Madrak)
Most Humorous Blog: Wonkette
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Suburban Guerilla (Susan Madrak)
Best New Blog: James Wolcott
Best Blog -- Daily Kos
Posted by: darla farr at December 14, 2004 03:38 PMBest Single Issue Blog: About Last Night and How Appealing; Joi Ito
Best Group Blog: Saloon; Scoop
Best Humorous Blog or Post: Where do you start
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Barista ; Gianna
Best Expert Blog: Book Buzz; Tim Porter; and John Quiggin;
Best New Blog: Boris Johnson
Best Commenter: Tim Dunlop; Bil Ives
PLEP is worth looking at for its wonderful list of links:
http://www.nutcote.demon.co.uk/nutlog.html
One pretty funny one is Carniola - Slovenian Blogging can be hilarious:
http://www.carniola.org/theglory/2004/11/index.html
Posted by: pwax at December 14, 2004 03:54 PMBEST NEW BLOG: Political Strategy!!!! Great writers, great topics, timely updates. What's not to like?
Posted by: Sharon Andrews at December 14, 2004 03:54 PMBest humorous: Little green footballs - beyond satire and into parody (it is satire, isn't it?)
Posted by: lurker206 at December 14, 2004 03:57 PMbest blog: liberal oasis
best writing: digby
best expert: josh marshall (he's an expert at blogging, anyway)
Best Blog and Best Writing:
Rittenhouse Review
http://rittenhouse.blogspot.com
Blog most deserving of wider recognition:
David Ehrenstein's fablog
http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com
Here you have my nominations, and as others have done, I will nominate my blog also:
Best Blog: Eschaton, Atrios
Best Group Blog: MyDD
Best New Blog: Irq'd
Best Post: JuliusBlog - Terror Alert Timeline, and
JuliusBlog - Chart: Bush Ratings vs. Terror Alerts
Best Series: Orcinus / David Neiwert on neo-fascism
Best Writing: James Wolcott
Best Humor Blog: The Rude Pundit and TBogg
Deserving Wider Recognition: Jesus' General ... and of course JuliusBlog
:-)
Posted by: Julius Civitatus at December 14, 2004 04:14 PMBest Blog
Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com
Best Writing
Billmon - R.I.P.
Best Series
David Neiwert of Orcinus : The Rise of Pseudo Fascism
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004/11/holiday-break.html
Best Group Blog
Needlenose
http://needlenose.com
Most Humorous Blog
Jesus' General
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
http://www.where-are-they.net/
Best Blog and Best Writing
http://www.bobharris.com/
funny, accessible to non-Americans, brilliantly written + pudus
Posted by: Felicity Kiernan at December 14, 2004 05:05 PMBest new blog: www.christwhatnext.blogspot.com
Posted by: David at December 14, 2004 05:13 PMBest Blog: Left i on the news
Posted by: Tom Carlsson at December 14, 2004 05:17 PMTwo blogs most deserving of wider recognition: The Yorkshire Ranter and Hobson's Choice.
Most Humorous: Michael Bérubé.
Best Writing: Teresa Nielsen Hayden: Making Light
Posted by: Kathryn Cramer at December 14, 2004 05:22 PMBest new blog: Curly Tales of War Pigs, politics and music, what could be better?
Best blog: Whiskey Bar, one of the best, hopefully not departed.
Best writing: James Wolcott, great wit and keen perception.
Best single issue blog: TalkLeft, the best legal blog and a great lefty!
Best Series: Steve Gilliard on Colonialism. Something that needed to be done, and Steve has been a workhorse at educating others on this important topic.
Most Humorous Blog: Open All Night, eclectic and very offbeat.
Best Group Blog: The American Street, good stuff!
Wider recognition: Fimoculous, present at the creation, a mainstay of Twin Cities blogging.
Best expert: Orcinus, must read if you care about the haters and what they're up to.
Posted by: Mark Gisleson at December 14, 2004 06:17 PMbest blog
skippy
Best Group Blog
First Draft
Most Humorous
Fanatical Apathy
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Bob Harris
Best Blog: Explananda.com
Best Group Blog: Explananda.com
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Explananda.com
Best Blog
Hullaballoo
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
Best Writing
The Plaid Adder
(I'm not positive DU is technically a blog, but she rules)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/plaidder/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/plaidder/index.html
Best Post
mg_65, "They Voted for This Mess," Steve Gilliard's News Blog
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2004/11/they-voted-for-this-mess.html
Best Series
Michael Berube, Republican National Convention
Sample: http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php?id=P251
Best Single Issue Blog
Daily Howler
http://www.dailyhowler.com
Most Humorous Blog
The Poor Man
http://www.thepoorman.net/
Most Humorous Post
Koaloha, "Crazy Train or Emotional Subway Attack"
http://www.livejournal.com/users/koaloha/29646.html
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Bartcop
http://www.bartcop.com/
Best Expert Blog
Informed Comment
http://www.juancole.com/
Best New Blog
James Wolcott
http://jameswolcott.com/
My nominees (note to the hosts: If I screw up the html, please be merciful and delete my post):
Funniest post: The Poor Man, "Poker With Dick Cheney"
Best blog: Digby's Hullabaloo
Best series: Michael Froomkin on the torture memos (sorry, no link handy)
Most deserving of wider recognition: Andymatic and DohiyiMir
Best writing: Publius at Legal Fiction
Best group blog: Pandagon
Best blog by a hitherto-unknown amateur writer of considerable talent: James Wolcott
Best commenter: Anntichrist S. Coulter!
Posted by: kc at December 14, 2004 08:31 PMBest Writing: James Wolcott, an engaging,
self-deprecating, and elegantly stylish writer.
Best New Blog: The informative Daou Report--
no glitz and no RSS feed yet, but an enormously
useful collection of timely links.
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Beyond Category: I propose a new award where,
e.g., a solid, absolutely indispensable
but not very sexy news round-up blog like
cursor.org could get some well-deserved recognition.
Best Blog: Atrios
Best Expert Blog: Juan Cole
Best Humorous Blog: TBogg
Best Personal Journal:Riverbend
Best New Blog: Why Now?
Whoops! Make that Daou Report--sorry.
Posted by: downtown at December 14, 2004 11:40 PMBest New Blog: Political Strategy. They were great in the lead up to the election, did some valuable original research; in particular a play by play of our foreign policy with North Korea.
http://www.politicalstrategy.org/
They are a group blog, so I also nominate them for
best group blog: Politcal Strategy.org.