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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!

Best blog: Matthew Yglesias
Best writing: Digby
Best post: Billmon's Vintage Lieberman
Best group: Crooked Timber
Best design: DailyKos
Most humorous: Tbogg
Best special effects: uggabugga

Best Blog: the ubiquitous Atrios
Best Writing: the always crisp TBogg
Best Post: Billmon's collection of WMD quotes by Bush and other administration officials.
Best Single Issue: Dailykos
Most Humorous: TBogg

Best Blog: CalPundit

Best Writing: Billmon

Best Post: Preznit Give Me Turkee

Best Series: TPM

Best Single Issue: Juan Cole

Best Group: TAPPED

Most Humorous: JC Christian

Most Humourous Post: Atrios' Preznit Give Me Turkee

Best Design: dKOS

Best New: The Right Christians

Best Special Effects: who cares?

I want to nominate Chris Mooney's Intersection (www.chrismooney.com) for two awards: Best New Blog and Best Single Issue Blog. Mooney's single issue is science policy, a subject no other lefty blogger handles so well so consistently. Not that he doesn't discuss other things, but his posts on creationism, cloning, school science textbooks and the White House antipathy to professional input on science issues are as definitive as it gets.

I want to nominate Rodger A Payne's blog for best blog of the year especially concerning international relations and political campaigns.

The url is http://rpayne.blogspot.com/

David Rhaesa

Best: Media Whores Online, Atrios, TPM, CalPundit

Best Writing: Hullaballoo (Digby), Daily Howler, TPM, Light of Reason

Best Post: I'll go with Politics and the Personal at Orcinus, because my memory of good earlier posts fails me.

Most Humorous: Jesus' General, Busy Busy Busy

Best New: Steve Gilliard

Best Design: Cursor

Best Group: Corrente

Best Blog: Rodger A. Payne's Blog. URL: rpayne.blogspot.com

I think this also counts as a new blog so I also nominate it for Best New Blog.

Rodger's combination of wide reading, accessible writing, incisive analysis, ability to draw connections among apparently diverse issues, and light touch has made his the only blog I read daily.

For Best Writing I nominate Palmermix, http://palmermix.typepad.com/, who is my second choice for best blog. Palmermix started out as a great music blog but is now wide-ranging, funny, and insightful on a number of issues. Not to mention that it is some of the best cultural criticism being written anywhere today, in my view.

How on earth did I forget about Echidne of the Snakes for best new blog? May the goddess forgive me.

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).

Posted by: Thlayli at December 11, 2003 02:05 PM

Absolutely.

Best writing -- Billmon, Josh Marshall, Kevin Drum, Gilliard, Meteor Blades on dKos.

Best blog? Is that possible? How about "Most Essential Blogs" TPM, Atrios, Calpundit, Billmon, dKos, Hesiod, and Gilliard.

Near Essential: Brad DeLong, corrente.

Best humor: TBogg, running away. Preznit give me turkee was very, very funny though. Roger Ailes is consistently laugh-out-loud.

Honorable mention: Sort-of-a-blog: BARTCOP.

Best blog - Calpundit (would be Matt Yglesias if he hadn't cut back after joining TAP)
Best writing - Billmon, hands down (honorable mention: Matt Yglesias)
Best post - Orcinus's The Politics and the Personal
Best series - all the polls Kos puts up (also, Calpundit's Friday Cat Blogging and Matt Yglesias's two posts on the Matrix movies, Reloaded and Revolutions, both of which gave better descriptions of the movies in a single sentence than any full review I read)
Best single issue - Kos, the issue being Democratic politics
Best grouped - TAPped; I don't read any other group blogs
Best humorous - Busy, Busy, Busy; I don't go to humor blogs, but I went there once and it made me laugh out loud and was very funny
Best humorous post - Any of Josh Marshall's, Calpundit's or Matt Yglesias's posts about the war before they came to the realization that the entire justification for war was smoke and mirrors and that Bush would completely fuck it up. Took you three long enough.
Best design - Alas, a Blog. I never went to it before this year. It's head and shoulders above anything else I've seen. It deserves to win 2 years in a row.
Best new - I don't have time for new blogs
Best special effect - Who cares? If I wanted something visually stimulating I'd be watching movies, not reading blogs.
Best blog commentator - praktile (also, John Isbell)
Best blog commentator, single post - emptywheel for one comment he made on a Calpundit post I can't remember (also Morat for his explanations of the recondite Matrix Reloaded on Matt Yglesias's post on the movie)

A couple I forgot in the first post:

Best Guest Blog Post: Thumb's "Are psychopaths running our government?" (Hullabaloo)

Best Original Analysis/Reporting: Josh Marshall (Talking Points Memo)

Tons of great nominations, everyone. There's a hell of a lot of talent in the left blogosphere. And thanks Wampum for keeping the Koufax Awards alive.

I'll come by and make a fuller list, but to make sure it's entered, I'd like to throw my Why Unions? series into the list.

Most humorous post is definitely Atrios' "preznit giv me turkee" memo. That thing makes me bust a gut just thinking about it.

Overall best blog I'd say Hesiod's Counterspin.

Best Blog: Atrios

Best series: Nathannewman.org "Is growth real?"

Best single issue blog: Across the river, formerly a marine's girl.

Darn, I don't fit any of those categories and I was too late for the "most annoying liberal blog poll" with the Miserable Failure Project...

Best Blog: Atrios's Eschaton.

Best Writing: Calpundit.

Best Single Issue Blog: Talking Points Memo.

Best Group Blog: dKos (since having the baby, seems more like group blog).

Most Humorous Blog: I'll go with Atrios again; consistently saucy comments.

Most Humorous Post: Billmon's Wolfowitz photo, him with a rolled up paper in clenched fists, with caption "False, tricksy hobbits! We ought to wring their filthy little necks!" re the Pentagon's barring of some European countries from the "precious" reconstruction contracts in Irag (dated December 10, 2003). Good, silly stuff. (Of course, Atrios'Preznit Give Me Turkee post was great, but it's already getting a lot of attention).

Best Series: Calpundit's Friday Cat Blogging (a nice break from weighty thoughts).

NEW CATEGORY: Gone But Not Forgotten, Best Blog To Die Out in 2003: Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World site (introduced me to the world of blogs, via interest in his cartoon).

Best Blog: Talking Points Memo
Best Writing: Rittenhouse Review
Most Humorous: Tbogg
Best New Blog: World 0 Crap
Best Series: Calpundit on the Valerie Plame affair

Question, can foreign blogs be included? If so, I nominate two for Best Single Issue Blog:

Best Single Issue Blog:
Where is Raed (Iraqi blogger, blogged during Iraq war)

and

Beyond Northern Iraq (stuhughes@.co.uk, lost his leg below the knee due to landmine in Iraq and wrote about it throughout the recovery period.)

best humorous blog -- not strictly political, but with a definite lefty bent -- is mimi smartypants (http://smartypants.diaryland.com/). just brain-dribble from a smart, goofy, and self-aware dribbler...

Special award to D-Squared, for inventing "Shorter-ing".

best series: In One Eye (http://monocle.blogspot.com)
continuing coverage of CT Gov's John Rowland legal troubles, which is indispensible for a displaced Nutmegger like myself.

Best blog - Road to Surfdom
Best new blog - Back Pages (http://backpagesblog.com/weblog/)

best series: Mark Kleiman's posts on the Plame affair (on his own blog and on O.S. Politics)

Best Blog -- Atrios and TPM are the two I have to check every day. Riverbend would be my hands down winner, except that she doesn't post often enough (not her fault, of course -- when you only have a few hours of electricity each day, maybe blogging is not your top priority).

Best Writing -- I like Sadly, No! quite a lot (the name alone is a good use of language). And Josh at TPM is always quite workmanlike (in a good way).

Best Post -- It's probably too new to have endured the test of time, but this Juan Cole post struck me for its raw honesty:

http://www.juancole.com/2003_12_01_juancole_archive.html#107095292594804063

Best Series -- Mark A.R. Kleiman on Valerie Plame.

Best Single Issue Blog -- Riverbend, hands down. Honorable mention to Juan Cole, INTEL DUMP, How Appealing, and Slugger O'Toole.

Best Group Blog -- The Dead Parrot Society.

Most Humorous Blog -- Jesus' General.

Most Humorous Post -- No contest: "Preznit giv me turkee."

Best Design -- ?

Best New Blog -- Steve Gilliard is good. I don't know how new Sadly, No!, THE FULCRUM, or WTF Is It Now are, but they are also good. Riverbend, of course.

Best Special Effects -- ?

As proposed by others:

Best Commenter -- Ghost of Bill Hicks needs some recognition, somehow.

Best Right-of-Center Blog -- Does Eugene Volokh count?

I gotta add:
Best Post: Billmon - "Dream Time" - it moved me - and apparantly lots of other people that added touching comments.

URL's provided for indiv posts and the less familiar (you know how Kos is by now!)

Best Blog - Billmon, Calpundit close second
Best Writing - Billmon (consistently brilliant)

Best Post - 3 noms
1) PLA's Promise Breakers on Bush's pledge to bring "honor and dignity" to the White House
2) Infernal Press on electronic voting scandal in How Bush won the election,and in the shameless self promotion department, my own
3) I don't understand Republicans in Are You Outraged?

Best Series - Bloviator's Cover the Uninsured Week -- vital information on a national disgrace

Best Single Issue Blog - All on health care
1) Bloviator AND (though they're not lefties)
2) Medpundit
3) DB's Medical Rants.
Best single post in a single issue blog though (shameless promotion) is "Oh Canada" explaining the trade-offs in different systems on my The Health Care Blog

Best Group Blog - Daily Kos

Most Humorous Blog -- the Onion (I know it's not a blog)

Most Humorous Post:
1) Billmon's Sitcom on the cancellation of future Republican miniseries on CBS
2) Patrick Wheeler's short and biting and possibly fictional NSA briefing on Regime Change in Cuba at Are you outraged?

Best Design -- The New Daily Kos

Best New Blog -- Drug War Rant, excellent commentary on a largely ignored and forgotten ongoing tragedy

Best Special Effects -- err... dont understand this category! But like some others I can suggest a few more --

"Most missed as it's over" -- Narco News. Al Giadarno socking it to the prohibitionists, fascists, and narco-terrorists from the jungle of South & Latin America for 4 great years

"Worst Series in an otherwise great blog!!" Calpundit -- Friday Cat Blogging -- Pease someone break Kevin's digital

I should add to my previous best series nomination:

Best blog: Calpundit

Most humorous post: Preznit

Best writing: Josh Marshall (particularly because so much of it is original thought).

OK, so these aren't very original, but at least my previous best series post was!

I second david's nomination of In One Eye http://www.monocle.blogspot.com for best series but with a twist. While the stories about the Nutmeg State's unctuous governor are top-notch, the in-depth coverage of the failings of the no-child left behind program stands out above the rest.

Best Blog - Atrios and DKos in a photo finish.

Best Writing - Hulabaloo(Digby)

Best Series
World O' Crap for their constant Town Hall bashing. I loves me Town Hall bashing.

Best Single Issue Blog
Talk Left

Best Group Blog
Pandagon

Most Humorous Blog
Tbogg and Jesus' General

Most Humorous Post
VeryVeryHappy's Bashing of Donald Luskin is one of my favorites.

Best Blog - Daily Kos

Best Writing - Whiskey Bar (Billmon)

Best Post - HAS TO BE BILLMON'S WMD quotes which ended up in the George Soros NYT full page ads

Best Series - can't really say

Best Single Issue Blog - Steve Gilliard's News Blog

Best Group Blog
Pandagon

Most Humorous Blog
Neal Pollock

Most Humorous Post
Take your pick from Pollock's site

Best blog:

tie between Steve Gilliard and Billmon.

best - Atrios

best writing - Pierce, on Altercation (don't know if this counts)

best new - ThinkingPeace

Most humorous post: Andrew Northrup with wingnut Gollum:

http://www.thepoorman.net/archives/002107.html

Best series: the slacktivist's "Left Behind" series. This guy (gal?) needs to win for something.

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Series: Barlow Lightbulb jokes / Kleinman on Plame / Ezra (Not Geniuses/Pandagon) - Shorter Anti-Idiotarian / DailyKOS - How they can win (one for each Dem primary candidate)
Funniest Blog: Pandagon
Funniest Post: (mine) MC Dick Cheney for Neal Pollack's Make fun of Dick Cheney Day
Best Single Issue: BlogForAmerica
Best New: Kicking Ass

Best: CalPundit
Best Writing: Billmon
Best Post: Billmon's WMD quotes
Best Series: Neiwart on fascism
Best Single Issue: Juan Cole
Best Group: dailyKos
Most humorous: the Poor Man
Humorous Post: the Poor Man's Luskin letter to "Atrios"
Best Design: dailyKos
Best New Blog: Riverbend
Special effects: dailyKos for the diaries

Best writing: Tbogg

Most humorous site: World O'Crap

Best series: World O'Crap's Murder on the National Review Cruise

Funniest Post: Neal Pollack's You're Gonna Frey:
http://www.nealpollack.com/cgi-bin/blog/do.cgi/200304290132/permalink

In the official categories, my picks are as follows:

• Best Blog: Body and Soul.


• Best Writing: Body and Soul, Proletarios Epanastatis and Teresa Nielsen Hayden.


• Best Series: Nathan Newman on the minimum wage.


• Best Single Issue Blog: Ampersand and En Banc.


• Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber and Open Source Politics.


• Best New Blog: Open Source Politics and Tikun Olam.

I've got a few nominations in non-standard categories as well. Several people have suggested a Best Commenter category, and I'll give the nod to Conrad Barwa and Danny Pinkus. For Best Liberal Blog with a Non-Political Theme, Moorishgirl. For Blog that May or May Not Be Left of Center, but that Every Leftist Should Read, Not a Fish.

And finally, I'd like to propose the category of Most Imaginative Blog, for the writer who comes up with the most original ideas and has the greatest capacity to make others think. There are many contenders, but the one that stands out - and the one that gets the nomination - is Teresa Nielsen Hayden.

Best: Talking Points

Single Issue: Daily Howler

Writing: Rittenhouse Review and Talking Points

Humorous: Tbogg

there really needs to be a "best under-appreciated blog" category, and i would nominate lean left in that category.

that being said, i nominate talkleft for best single issue blog, if you count law as a single issue.

i also nominate myself, skippy, for best humorous blog, because i'm so humorous.

well i really screwed up the html in that post, sorry folks. i will refrain from trying to make links because i am obviously so bad at it.

let me clarify: i nominate lean left for best blog, because there is no "best under-rated blog" category.

i nominate talkleft for best single issue blog, because i count the law as a single issue.

i nominate me for most humorous, because i like to see my name in cyberprint.

I'd second several of the nominations for best writing so far, particularly Making Light, Slacktivist, Billmon, Digby, and Rittenhouse, but want to add two more -- The Road To Surfdom and Late Night Thoughts.

He's not a really a lefty, and he's not actually a blogger, but I think that the wonderful John Lott deserves something.

I want to suggest a new category: Best Specialist (or Specialty) Blog. This would be for someone who has a particular specialization (whether advanced degree, high-level job, or even auto-didact) and blogs primarily on that topic. This would be different from single-issue blog. Maybe another way to put it would be "Best Expert Blog". (For example, my blog, the currently on-hiatus Swing State Project, might be single issue, but it sure ain't expert.)

My nominations for this category would be Prof. Juan Cole and Prof. Jack Balkin.

For the three people who haven't seen them yet, it should be pointed out that there is a non-PDF, non-blogspot version of David Neiwert's Rush, Newspeak and Fascism series, and also a single-page, quick-loading version of Dwight's Just For the Record series. Much easier than trawling through blogspot, and worth the reading.

(Boy, you sure can tell skippy is an actor. And his blog is very cute.)

Best post:

Billmon's "November 22, 1963" - http://billmon.org/archives/000897.html

and

Body and Soul's "What Would Bobby Do?" - http://bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/2003/08/what_would_bobb.html

Best writing:

Feministe - http://feministe.us/blog/

Best Blog: DailyKos.

Best Group Blog: NeedleNose.

Best Single Issue Blog: Billmon.

Best Series: Talking Points Memo and the Wilson/Plame series.

And since people tell me I suck at telling others about my little corner of the pond, here goes: ClownTech -- now with color visual aids.

Best single "issue:" SullyWatch.

I think 24 Weblog is the funniest for fans of the best TV show on TV.

Best Blog: Atrios, hands down.

Best Humorous Post: Pandangon, "20 Most Annoying Conservatives."

Best Anti-Troll Comments: The Ghost of Bill Hicks

Best Humorous Blog: tbogg/World o' Crap

Roger Ailes deserves something good.
Haven't read enough blogs to nominate others. Will have to explore as many as I can.

For best new blog, or best small blog, I'd like to nominate:
http://vbasement.blogspot.com/
Written by a friend of mine. Go say hi.

On a "Let's get really sappy," note, it's fantastic to see such a huge community gathered here.

Best blog: Atrios
Most humorous blog: tbogg
Honorable mention for humor: the late, great Neal Pollock('s blog)--Neal is still with us, as far as I know...

Best blog: Atrios
Most humorous blog: tbogg
Honorable mention for humor: the late, great Neal Pollock('s blog)--Neal is still with us, as far as I know...

I've only wrestled out a few of these yet, but

Best Design: xoverboard, with best special effect, the sleeping kitty

Best Commenter: John Isbell

Funniest Post: Nicotrol for Right Wing Blog Addicts at Very Very Happy

Best blog: Whiskey Bar (Billmon)

Best new blog: Whiskey Bar (Billmon), The Right Christians (Allen Brill), Baghdad Burning (Riverbend)

Best writing: Body and Soul (Jeanne d'Arc), Whiskey Bar, The Road to Surfdom (Tim Dunlop)

Best series: Slacktivist (Fred Clark) on Left Behind

Best single-issue blog: The Right Christians, Language Hat, Informed Comment (Juan Cole)

Best single post: 'Quagmire' Billmon (believe this was at DailyKos before the Bar opened)

runner-up A Time to Break Silence> MLK April 1968 Riverside Church speech with Iraq-war hyperlinks Jeanne d"Arc

Funniest Post: The UN spring/summer 2003> Fanatical Apathy (Adam Felber)

Funniest Blog: Fanatical Apathy, The Poor Man (Andrew Northrup)

Best Group Blog: Daily Kos

Best Blog: TalkingPointsMemo

Best Writing: Body & Soul (honorable mention: Neal Pollack)

Best Post: Dwight Meredith, Restaurant Rules. Honorable mention to SouthKnoxBubba's Voter's Guide to GOP Bizarro World Politics.

Best Series: Kleiman on Plame

Best Single Issue Blog: Talk Left for human rights (I don't feel comfortable giving the award to Kos, because politics is pretty much what drives all "lefty" blogs. Same goes for general "law" blogs -- too much subspecialization and crossover in the field.)

Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber

Most Humorous Blog: Neal Pollack

Best New Blog: Crooked Timber, followed by Matthew Holt's Health Care Blog.

Best Blog: John Quiggin, Brad de Long, Slacktivist

Best Writing: Digby, Surfdom, Max Speak, Rob Schaap (Blogorrohoea), Slaktivist and Daniel Davies (Crooked Timber)

Best Post: War Torn (Surfdom)

Best Series: Tim Lambert's relentless and righteous pursuit of John Lott - everybody should vote for this!!!!

Best Single Issue Blog: Languagehat

Best Group Blog: Left Coaster

Most Humorous Blog: Poor Man, Sisyphus Shrugged

Most Humorous Post Poor Man's Gollum/Stalker post

Best Design: Poison Kitchen

Best New Blog: Corrente, Poison Kitchen, Back Pages

Best Commenter: John Isbell

Best [most essential]
CalPundit
http://www.calpundit.com/

Josh Marshall [need a different category]
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

Right Christians [need a different category]
http://abrill@therightchristians.org/NewTopic.htm

Best Writing [not just one, but several extended essays on Owellian manipulation techniques and "Rush Newspeak and Fascists" and "The Political and the Personal"]
Orcinus
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/

Group Blog
Open Source Politics
http://www.ospolitics.org/

TAPPED
http://www.prospect.org/weblog//

Best Single-Issue Blog
Sully Watch [Fact checker for A Sullivan.. a thankless job]
http://sullywatch.blogspot.com/

Chris Mooney [Science Policy]
http://www.chriscmooney.com/blog.asp

Best Humor [I like the 'Best Snark' Category idea]

World 'o Crap"
http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/

Busy Busy Busy
http://www.busybusybusy.com/

Very Very Happy ['The Corner Unleashed','My dislike of the French is independent of any facts about the world'.]
http://veryveryhappy.blogspot.com/

Best Special Effects [Also qualifies for Best Snarky. Great visuals..love the charts]
uggabugga
http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/

New Categories:

Most Pungent and Stinging [political critique]
Best of the Blogs
http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/

Hellblazer
http://www.hellblazer.com/

Best Reporting category or Best Analysis
Josh Marshall
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

Best Policy Analysis
Mark Kleiman
http://www.markarkleiman.com/

Best Daily News Collections
The Hampster [on winter break]
http://the-hamster.com/

The Smirking Chimp
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/

The War in Context
http://warincontext.org/

Best Cartoon Essays
Tom Tomorrow
http://www.thismodernworld.com/

Best at Media analysis [uncovering 'tricksiness']
the Daily Howler
http://www.dailyhowler.com/

Spin Sanity [This may not class as a blog but they deserve a mention]
http://www.spinsanity.org/

Best Religious [radical debunking of the sanctimonious religious imperialists and their over reaching, insufferable... but I digress]
Right Christians
http://abrill@therightchristians.org/NewTopic.htm

Best of the others that deserve credit and applause [in no particular order of importance]
Light of Reason
http://coldfury.com/reason/weblog.php?id=0

Just a Bump in the Beltway
http://www.node707.com/

Avedon Carol
http://www.sideshow.free-online.co.uk/

Cassel Civil Liberty Watch
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/ecassel/

The Rittenhouse Review
http://rittenhouse.blogspot.com/
http://trr.blogspot.com/ [TRR The Lighter Side]

Best collaborative running pranksess of tricksiness in the first degree, which flipped the new-speakers on their backs, in a gentle and conservatively compassionate manner, [ai ki do] and produced endless stinging retorts that can be summarized in the phrase 'we hates you'.

I nominate [drum rollz please]: Tagging Blogs with 'Fair and Balanced'!

[NOTE: I nominate the preceeding for the Best Run On Sentence in 2003]

And so it does.....

SPEC. EFF: Damfaudio earned link from Buzzflash, Instant Audio (Blah3 linked) and Hidden Audio. Ex:"Cause A Stink" (post, wav) "Frontlines of Freedom" (wav) and "Name Me One Lie." (post, wav).

BEST- uggabugga WRIT - Roger Ailes HUM - Presnit

SERIES - 1) Nathaniel Jones beating, ignored by bloggers. Best in series, linked to disapprovingly by Cincinnati blog (has links to rest of series). 2) Refinery disaster streak here and here.

NEW - banging the Peace Drum since 8/21/03.

GROUP - Dr. Damfa, Raven, Catman, Rat Dodger.

POST - Damfa, "Real Juju," "Immense Speculation," "Jeff Sessions is a Lying Jackass".

Best Blog -- always Atrios

Best Writing -- World O'Crap (tho often needs proofing)

For best leftist blog I nominate Kevin Drum.

For best individual blog entry I nominate my own eulogy of Edward Said:

http://aspasia.blog-city.com/read/243885.htm

Most indispensable blog: Atrios
Best single issue: Nathan Newman
Best post: "Mr. Byron Goes to Sacramento"
Best new: Bump in the Beltway

NB: The Right Christians is not eligible for "Best New Blog" having begun in mid-May

...but thanks anyway.

Allen:

If your readers want to nominate you for Best New Blog, please do not let the arbitraty rules that I just pulled out of thin air stop them. I think it is a great nomination and I will change the rules if need be. The idea here is for folks to recognize the work of people they like and I do not intend to let some technicality get in the way of that purpose.

For Best Single Issue Blog, I nominate Like Father, Like Sun (http://parsol1789.blogspot.com/), run by Grady Olivier, Quentin Robinson, and myself.

Our single issue? The New York Sun.

For those of you unfamiliar with this pathetic rag, the Sun is edited by Seth Lipsky and his minion Ira Stoll, both right-wing, pro-war fanatics (and who led their newsroom in a champagne toast when the war began). The Sun merits little attention from other press outlets, because it is an utter non-entity, except on those occasions when it publishes something so outrageous (and outraging) that it cannot be ignored; the Sun is the place where Richard Perle made his notorious (and notoriously idiotic) threat to sue Seymour Hersh for libel, and got notice for its suggestion that anti-war protestors be tried for treason. (A newspaper with contempt for the First Amendment is a rare thing of beauty.) It's also atrociously written and edited, is racist, and is blatant in its pro-Bush blatherings.

Further, the Sun is bankrolled by some of the shadier (and richer) elements of the right, including Conrad Black, Richard Gilder (of Club For Growth infamy) and robber barons Michael Steinhardt and Roger Hertog. The Sun's investors damn near replicate the board of the Manhattan Institute, and the paper relentlessly pushes the Institute's pro-"school choice", pro-Republican agenda.

So there we are, keeping an eye on these slimy thugs, exposing their hypocrisies and lies on a daily basis.

Are we really the best? Probably not, but check us out anyway. We try to keep things as humorous as possible (when not choking on our own rage) while remaining informative and enlightening.

And failing that, we use shitloads of profanity, which can also be fun to read.

Not much point in nominating Atrios again, is there? I have a feeling he's going to make it on the ballot.

But here's a few others:

Best Single Issue: Tim Lambert.

Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber.

Best New Blog: Unfogged. (Doesn't meet the criteria, but less than a year old.)

Best Series: yeah, I'll go with DD's Shorter Den Beste. He actually invented a whole new genre.

Best Writing: Brad DeLong.

What happened to my nominees? Must be a right wing conspiracy. It's Angry Bear and Calpundit!!

Glad to join the Atrios landslide.

David Neiwert (aka. "Spudboy" to his long-time fans) is DA MAN!

The Daily Howler just keep getting better and better

and World O Crap is a delight.

Best Blog: Calpundit, over the other usual suspects (Atrios, Kos, TPM, Counterspin, etc.) for its smooth, classy blend of all the elements that make a good blog ... seamlessly balancing thoughtful analysis with emotion, humor, and personal asides.

Best Writing: Billmon, as demonstrated by the "Dream Time" and "November 22, 1963" posts cited above, plus too many others to count. Riverbend is a good nominee, too.

Best Post: Orcinus's The Political and the Personal and Steve Gilliard's "I'm a fighting liberal," as cited above; on the same theme I might nominate my own "Why the passion against Bush?" (as well as my post explaining why Bush needed the Iraq war, which Suburban Guerrilla apparently liked enough to link directly to on her blogroll).

Best Series: Now, I'm really going to get self-promotional -- with all due respect to Mark Kleiman and Calpundit, my Valerie Plame posts have had some good ahead-of-the-curve insights, and for the last month, I think I've been more on target regarding the U.S. wrestling match with Grand Ayatollah Sistani for the future of Iraq than anyone I've seen in the blogosphere (even more so than Juan Cole and Steve Gilliard -- you can start here and work back, or enter "Sistani" in the Needlenose search box and read the post results since Nov. 13th).

Best Single-Issue Blog: Juan Cole, followed by Riverbend and Salam Pax

Best Group Blog: DailyKOS, which is really redefining the group blog concept at this point toward being a "community blog"

Most Humorous Blog: An obscure choice, but I recommend checking out ClownTech. I'd also nominate Salam Pax.

Most Humorous Post: See Why? wrote a non-political but hilarious adaptation of the Book of Job to some recent computer problems he'd had. Also, Salam Pax on the heir to the Hashemite monarchy returning to Iraq, and a scary cab ride.

Best Design: Calpundit, Billmon, and TPM for being clean, attractive, and readable. Besides, somebody's got to lose to "Alas, A Blog."

Best New Blog: Riverbend's Baghdad Burning.

Best Special Effects: I dunno.

Best Series: Slacktivist's Left Behind series.

I don't read regularly or widely enough to say much, but ...

Did you all forget that the Iraq war took place in 2003? Did NO ONE nominate Sean Paul Kelly's The Agonist's incredible series during the official war? Okay, it was balanced and not leftist, per se, but what a resource!

I want to nominate Political Aims for something--it's pretty new, but the writing is also very good.

For funniest post I wanted to say something by Kieran Healy or Ted Barlow, but in the end the one that not only made me choke on my calcium chew but I read it to my office-mate and my mother was philosoraptor "the du Toitification of the western conservative."

Crooked Timber is clearly best group blog.

Talking Points Memo is clearly best SOMETHING.

Best overall: Atrios
Best single-issue: Sullywatch
Best humorous: Mightymighty Reason man

Best overall: Atrios
Best single-issue: Sullywatch
Best humorous: Mightymighty Reason man

Best Blog: Matt Yglesias/Cal Pundit

Best Writer: Billmon/Steve Gilliard

Best Single Issue: Juan Cole, Iraq

Best Group: Does Daily Kos count here?

Most Humorous/Snarkiest: Jesus' General/TBogg

Most Humorous Post: How Sen. Santorum and Bill Bennett helped me rip sinning buzzards from Satan's grasp by Jesus' General.

Best Blog: Atrios
Best Writing: Body & Soul
Best Single Issue: Brad DeLong
Best Group: Pacific Views
Most Humorous: Fishyshark (Kos' other blog)
Best Design: Feministe
Best New Blog: misbehaving.net (Honorable Mentions to Trish Wilson's Blog and Melanie's Just a Bump in the Beltway)
Best Special Effects: Easy Bake Coven

In above post, I'm not sure if Fishyshark should be in Most Humorous category. It was very, very funny, but it was Kos' personal blog, so maybe it doesn't qualify.

Does Margaret Cho count as a lefty? Because i'd like to nominate her blog at www.margaretcho.com/blog/blog.htm
for best new blog and most humorous.

nomination for best series: uggabugga's diagrams

Best Writing - billmon
Best post - billmon's WMD quotes.
Best blog - well, my favourite is Billmon, but Atrios probably edges him when you account for quantity as well as quality.
Best group blog - Crooked Timber

Best blog - Talking Points Memo
Best writing - Body and Soul

Best Blog: Atrios, the Tom Hanks of the blogosphere. Hey, maybe Atrios is Tom Hanks!

Best Writing: Calpundit. (Hard to choose between him and JMM, but in the end, it's gotta be Kevin.)

Best Series: TPM for it Plame Affair coverage.

Best Single Issue Blog: Brad DeLong.

Best Group Blog: Daily Kos. So much more than just Markos Zuniga.

Most Humorous Post: Atrios. Preznit give me turkey.

Best New Blog: Not voting here, cuz someone else nominated us and I want to win. Vote Kicking Ass!

Best Blog:
Calpundit, who needs no URL

Best Writing:
Dan. Drezner (who's definitely on the right, but groks the left)
[http://www.danieldrezner.com/blog/]

Best Post:
Josh Marshall's post on the real motivations of the Bush Administration in going into the Iraq war. I can't track down the URL for this one yet.

Best Series:
Norman Geras on the rights and wrongs of amnesty.
[http://www.normangeras.blogspot.com/2003_10_12_normangeras_archive.html#106613997588905245]

Best Single Issue blog:
Tim Lambert's deltoid, because... you know why.
[http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/]

Best Group blog:
A Fistful of euros
[http://fistfulofeuros.net/]

Most Humorous blog:
The strongest contender in a weak category: Attention Deficit.
Eg. her tour of her office, one of many such gems.
[http://attentiondeficit.blogs.com/attention_deficit/]

Most Humorous post:
Again, a category that needs stronger contenders, but if I
have to recommend someone, it'd be ESR's Cthulhu post. ESR
is definitely rightist.
[http://esr.ibiblio.org/b2commentspopup.php?p=134&c=1]

Best design:
Easy, MemeFirst, courtesy of Felix Salmon and co.
[http://www.memefirst.com/]

John and Belle:
[http://examinedlife.typepad.com/johnbelle/]

Best special effects:
Tim Lambert's political compasses.
[http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/2003/11#polsurvey]

And my suggestion of a new category? MENA commentator, where I would vote for Lounsbury on MENA:
[http://www.livejournal.com/users/collounsbury/]

Best Blog- Daily Kos
Best Group Blog- Not Geniuses or Political State Report (its a close one)
Best Series - Kos' How they can win series.

Not Geniuses and Mindful Direction - best group blog

I posted a few nominations earlier. Here are some more.

Best Writing - Body and Soul

Best Single-Issue Blog - Baghdad Burning

Best Expert Blog - Informed Comment

Best New Blog - The Right Christians

Best Right of Center Blog - The Light of Reason

Most Underappreciated Blog - Fantastic Planet

Best Blog - CalPundit

Best Blog - Atrios

Best Writing - Body and Soul/Orcinus/The Whiskey Bar/The Antic Muse

Best Post - Orcinus' "The Political and the Personal"

Best Series - Orcinus' "Rush, Newspeak, and Facism"

Best Single Issue Blog - Talk Left

Best Group Blog - Corrente

Most Humorous Post - Anything written by The Farmer

Best New Blog -- The Whiskey Bar

Best Special Effects -- Ugga Bugga

Best Series - Kos "How each of the Democratic candidates can win" series.

That was awesome.

I have to disagree with Charles.

There are strong contenders in the humor blog category.

Tom Burka's Opinions You Should Have (tomburka.com) is brilliant. His humor has a biting edge, is insightful and is beautifully written.

Overall best blog: Whiskey Bar - wise and thoughtful.

Best posts: Billmon's July 4th post
and Burka's September 11th.

A Burka and Billmon fan.

Best Blog: Atrios, CalPundit, TPM
Best Writing: Billmon
Best Post: Billmon's "Year Ahead" post from way back in January. Legacy dKos is down right this second, but it should be back up Monday.
Humor Post: Pandagon's "20 most annoying conservatives"
Best Single-Issue Blog: Juan Cole, Steve Gilliard, TalkLeft
Best Design: Not Geniuses
Best New Blog: Juan Cole, Steve Gilliard, The Left Coaster
Best Group Blog: Crooked Timber
Best Series: Charles Kuffner's reporting on the Texas redistricting fiasco. Billmon's multiple "quotes" posts.

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New category suggestion:
Best Regional Blog: Archpundit, Charles Kuffner, Burnt Orange Report

Please consider

Best Post:
Citizen�s Journalism
Good journalism doesn�t need to be complicated, sophisticated or expensive.
The Brownsville Herald, a 15,800-circulation daily in deep Texas, sent out a few reporters to ask local police and city commissions for various public records such as police logs or expense reports. The result: Runaround, hostility and ignorance by public officials and, in one case, a police car that tailed reporter Juan Ozuna for more than 20 minutes after he left city hall in Santa Rosa, Texas...
I love this type of journalism. It resonates with truth. It conveys with direct honesty the frustrations of everyday experiences citizens undergo when dealing with government and bureaucracies � and by doing so connects with the public.
· Truth Frustrated [Tim Porter]

It is not our stars, dear Horatio, but ourselves Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Yeah, I was alive during the 1980s, but Tears for Fears reminded me of something important in our own time.
Look at the Blogstreet list of "top blogs." Notice something about them? Most are on the same topic, politics.
Now I have nothing against politics. Sometimes I get a little political myself, even here. But for decades now politics has been a tough sell in the media. Ratings for TV shows about politics are pitiful. Most papers have been cutting their political coverage for a long time, because their readers would rather read about making souffles rise and local celebrities' 15 minutes of fame (or how local celebrities make souffles rise).
· The problem isn't with the lying liars. The problem is with the millions who enjoy being lied to, who prefer being lied to, who see balance as imbalance, and imbalance as balance [Corante: MOORE'S LORE: new technology: Dana Blankenhorn ]

Best Writing: Jeanne/Kip at Long Story, Short Pier/Jim at Rittenhouse

Funniest: TBogg/Jesus' General

Best Series: Slacktivist's End Time series/Teresa Nielsen Hayden's posts on the destruction of the artifacts in the iraqi museums and libraries/MB on the Frist bill/Mr. Sam on the Pryor nomination/Seeing the Forest on Diebold/Off the Kuff's KMart Kiddie Roundup coverage/Lisa English on the FCC rules/PLA on tort reform

Best Newcomers: Digby/World O'Crap/Black Box Voting

Best Single Issue Blog: Nathan Newman on labor issues

Best Group Blog: Corrente

Can I recommend www.notgeniuses.com for a nomination? It is a great blog and I look at it every day.

Best New Blog and Best Single Issue Blog: the Right Christians (didn't realize they were a new blog)

Let's see...

Best series: Ann Coulter Is a Lousy Writer and She Isn't Even That Hot at George W. Bush, Will You Please Go Now?!

Best post: David Neiwert's "The Political and the Personal"

Best new blog: Mary + World O'Crap 4-eva!

Most humorous: Opinions You Should Have, maybe Suckful if it turns out they still exist

Most humorous post: The Poor Man's Luskin parody ("this constitutes tricksiness of the first degree")

Best special effects: Uggabugga, no question

Best single issue: Does feminism count as a single issue? Can I nominate Alas, a Blog?

Best Blog - Atrios
Best Writing - Billmon/Orcinus/Talking Points Memo
Best Post - Orcinus' "The Political and the Personal"
Best Series - Orcinus' "Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism"
Best Single Issue Blog - Talk Left
Best Group Blog - BoingBoing
Most Humorous Post - Billmon's greatest hits
Best New Blog -- Billmon
Underappreciated: Xymphora, Jerome Doolittle's Badattitudes, and 758 others

I'd like to nominate myself in the "new blog" category. Very new. Extremely new.

Most humorous blog: www.wackyfun.net

Most humorous post: http://www.wackyfun.net/archives/2003_11.php#000137

The finest new blog is The Poison Kitchen.It's has looks, it has good taste, and it has flair. Also Patrick Taylor is a Photo Shop genius equal to the master - South Knox Bubba.

The Wall Street Journal calls J. Bradford DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal one of the best econ sites on the net and so should you.

Best single issue: TalkLeft

Best New Blog:
I nominate A Token Lefty - www.benglasson.com/atl
It's a Tasmania, Australia-based blog taking a critical and at times satirical and humorous look at Australian and international issues.

Most Humorous Post: Two Short Planks of Wood, A Token Lefty - www.benglasson.com/atl/40.htm

That's all.

Best Blog: TalkLeft and Atrios.

Best writing: TPM and Avedon Carol's Sideshow

Best Angry Writing: Daily Howler and Keith Gottschalk: Talk Radio Refugee

Most Humorous Blog: Pesky the Rat

New Blog: Drug WarRant

Single Issue Blog: Last One Speaks and Drug WarRant

a few posts you might want to look at when nominating Best/Most Humorous post

slacktivist:Uncivil union

NeilGaiman on "the allegations" against Prince Charles

VeryVery Happy - The Corner Unleashed

Longstory%3B short pier.: Bring me the head of Grover Norquist.

pandagon:"The Small Soliloquies Of The Pentagon"

Wampum: A movie dealin my future? Probably not...

Nitpicker: Keep politics out of the military

LateNight Thoughts... on caudillismo

Making Light: Namarie Sue

Hullabaloo: Kaleidoscope Eyes

LateNight Thoughts...: Why should I?

PlumCrazy: Help! Help! I'm Being Repressed!

Bodyand Soul: Politics and religion

Bodyand Soul: Cruelty lessons

Fanatical Apathy:Save My Marriage

TugBoat Potemkin: Can Libertarians Do Yum Cha?

Ignatz: the slaughter of innocents

Fanatical Apathy:Greenspan Betrays America With Rogue Concept

P.L.A.- A Journal of Politics, Law and Autism: Cue David Letterman

Pen-Elayne on the Web: Anti-Intellectualism

LateNight Thoughts...: No More

Longstory%3B short pier.: Yellowgate.

The Rittenhouse Review: Sen. Santorum and the Sacrament of Marriage

The Rittenhouse Review: This Is No Time for Unseriousness

The Rittenhouse Review on Andrew Sullivan and the Catholic church

Mr.Mustard - Why Gus The Sea Bear Is Insane

Whiskey Bar: The Naked WMD

Busy,Busy, Busy: Shorter Norah Vincent

LateNight Thoughts...: Castro Again

Resist the Oppressive Dominant Internet Hierarchy Through Link Sluttage!: ArchiveEntry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal

Bodyand Soul: marching against the war

Longstory%3B short pier.: Hell.

P.L.A.: George and the Wolf

Not, of course, a complete list, but it's worth going back to these anyway

AdamFelberForPresident

I'm pretty new to the game, but I hear that self-promotion is better than no promotion.

Best New Blog and Best Single Issue Blog:
10,000 Birds (www.10000birds.com)

Best Blog:
How To Save The World (http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/)

Best Humorous Blog:
I Am Eating My Husband's Soul (http://blogs.salon.com/0003076/)

Most humorous post: Defective Yeti, "The Matrwich."
"TRINITY: Look around you, Geo. The world you live
in is a construct -- a facsimile of reality. Your
staff works tirelessly to ensure that you only hear
what they want you to hear, see what they want you
to see."
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/stories/the_matrwich.php

Best blog - Calpundit or Talkleft
Humorous - Skippy
Group - Daily Kos
Best Series - I'll toot my own horn and say the Damn Foreigner coverage on Maher Arar.

For best post: Harvest of Women by Kim Antieau, on her blog The Furious Spinner.

I would also like to nominate NTodd's blog, http://dohiyimir.blogspot.com/ , as best new blog. It's a lovely smart and learned and civil respite, away from the big guys who can be over-run with comments and trolls.

I feel kind of bad doing this, but I am kind of proud of this post.

I think it's even more relevant now than when I first drafted it back in August.

Oh, and here are my nominations:

Best Blog: That's very tough. If you go with impact it's a toss up between Josh Marshall and Eschaton.

If you go, purely, with in-depth and provocative writing, I'd have to say Orincus.

But, I regard blogging as a certain kind of format, and that leads me to say Daily Kos simply because Kos is both important, AND provides more original content and fits the blog form. But...it was a very, very tough call.

Best post? I'm biased. I pointed out one of mine, so I can't really be fair. {I also pointed out a post by Billmon, who also has a terrific blog, by the way).

Most humerous post? Wow. That's tough as well.Does unintentionally funny count?

This is tougher than I thought. let me thinkabout it some more.

Best Blog: Atrios/Daily Kos
Best Writing: Talking Points Memo
Best Single Issue: Juan Cole

I forgot a couple
Funniest Post: Atrios - Preznit give me turkee

And a honorable mention for consistently good writing and ocasional snarkiness: Suburban Guerilla

Best post: Digby "Friends In High Places" http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2003_12_07_digbysblog_archive.html#107118700834458783

I'd like to nominate Cereffusion.imageyenation.com for best new blog.

http://cereffusion.imageyenation.com

Not going to try the individual post or special effects categories, but:

Best Blog: Talking Points Memo, Orcinus, or Daily Kos.

Best Writing: Talking Points Memo, Orcinus, or Altercation.

Best Series: Orcinus for "Rush, Newspeak and Fascism," Daily Kos for "How They Can Win," or Slacktivist for the "Left Behind" commentaries.

Best Single Issue Blog: Riverbend, Political �ims, or Tuesday Morning Quarterback. I'm kind of hesitant to nominate TMQ, what with the entirely-deserved criticism Gregg Easterbrook's been getting for his postings on Jewish film executives, proving intent in rape cases, "Intelligent Design" theory and Bush's environmental record. But his fault, dear Koufax voters, lies not in the football gods, but with his Easterblogg. Please don't hurt me.

Best Group Blog: Altercation, Political Aims, or TAPPED.

Most Humorous Blog: Slacktivist, Pandagon, or Tuesday Morning Quarterback.

Best Design: Blog For America, Talking Points Memo, or Slacktivist. (Hey, regardless of your opinion of Howard Dean, Blog For America deserves recognition for something.)

Best New Blog: Riverbend, Very Very Happy, or Brian's Study Breaks. That last is not quite "new" by the definition provided, but, well, we're being encouraged to bend the definitions by Dwight Meredith himself.

I would like to add another nomination for the funniest post Margaret Cho on Ann Coulter

Best Series: Off The Kuff - Coverage of the Texas redistricting fiasco.

Most Humorous Post: Outrage of the Week - "Bring It On"

Most Humorous: Outrage of the Week - "Bring It On"

Kuff's coverage of the Great Texas Mid-term Redistricting Robbery is my favorite Series.

Best post: "About Aztlan" by Luz Paz.

http://otra.blogs.com/luzpaz/2003/09/i_was_going_to_.html

Best Blog
David Neiwert: Orcinus

Best Writing
David Neiwert: Orcinus

Best Post
The Political and the Personal

Best Series
Rush, Newspeak and Fascism: An Exegesis (available in several formats)

Best Single Issue Blog
Bob Somerby: The Daily Howler

Best Group Blog
Leah, Lambert, Tresy and the Farmer: corrente

Best New Blog
Al Giordano:Big, Left, Outside

Best Special Effects
Eric Blumrich: BushFlash.com

Best Blog-Talking Points Memo

Best Writing-Orcinus

Most Humorous Blog-Berry's World

Most Humorous Post-Berry's World-Democrat's Secret Plot To Smear Rush Limbaugh

Best Single Issue Blog-Busy Busy Busy

Best Group Blog-Crooked Timber

Best Design-Daily Kos

Probably too late. Anyhow.

Best overall: Sadly, No. Sorry, I also like Atrios but I really think Sadly, No is my favorite.
Most humorous blog: World o'Crap.
Best new: Echidne of the snakes.
Best writer: Lots of them. Jeanne, Ampersand and his team, Brad DeLong, Billmon, Orcinus, and oh, can't forget Margaret Cho (best writer who uses 4 letter words as an art form?)---
Best series: The why oh why are we ruled by these fools posts by Brad DeLong. Or the "department of Huh?" posts by the same author.
Best single-issue: Orcinus, who I think counts as single issue involving hate speech and related stuff. (Is this stretching it?)
Best new: Riverbend although she was around earlier than your cutoff.
Best commenter: I also like the ghost of Bill Hicks, and John Isbell.
Best comments SECTION: Brad DeLong (wow-- economists debating, a scary place to go) and Crooked Timber on occasion.
Best humorous post: The Gollum Luskin letter from the poor man.
Best overall post: An article on the Light of Reason by Silber re: Iraq. Sorry, I guess he is not really considered leftist. Well in that case I nominate him for best right-of-center and also most lucent Randian.

Totally unnecessary comment: Why the hell do so many progressive Americans nevertheless think a blog by an Iraqi about Iraq is "single-issue"? That means all of you Americans are single-issue too (as you can count on one hand the references to the rest of the world that aren't related to America's conquest of it). Kevin Drum (whose blog I love) spends half his time talking about Survivor for God's sake. As Orcinus' friend that he quoted in one of his terrific articles would say, Americans are just too self-referential for words. I am an American but for God's sake. There is a big world out there folks.

Best Blog: DailyKos

Best Design: Not Geniuses

Best New Blog: BlogforAmerica

Best Blog: Daily Kos
Best Writer: Billmon

Best Blog: Daily Kos
Best Writing: Talking Points Memo
Best Post: Billmon on the Neoconservatives
Best Design: Daily Kos

Kos' Scoop design has made the blog so much more interesting. And, easier to read, navigate, and post. The Diaries are an excellent new addition.

All in all, Daily Kos is more Trotskyite (bottoms up) and less Stalinist (top down).

Hey guys,

Here's a banner image for your awards, free to use if you want it:

http://www.beautyandruin.com/best_blog.jpg

Or click my name.

ta,
GT

Hey guys,

Here's a banner image for your awards, free to use if you want it:

http://www.beautyandruin.com/best_blog.jpg

Or click my name.

ta,
GT

bopnews.com is an excellent blog on understanding the relation between politics and the media.

Best blog: Calpundit, when I get around to reading him.

Best new blog: Mine, titled Random Thoughts (snunes.blogspot.com). I am not ashamed to nominate my own blog. I also nominate the John Edwards blog, the best of the candidate blogs.

I think there should be separate categories for blogs by professional writers/journalists, or else they should not be included at all. I don't consider them true bloggers.

Best Blog: Josh Marshall
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Best Writing: David Neiwert
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/

Best Post:

Best Series: David Neiwert-Domestic Terrorism
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/

Best Single Issue Blog: uggabugga
http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/

Best Group Blog: corrente
http://corrente.blogspot.com/

Most Humorous Blog: Scoobie Davis Online http://scoobiedavis.blogspot.com/

Most Humorous Post: Too many to choose from.

Best Design: Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/

Best New Blog: Passenger Pachyderms
http://passengerpachyderms.blogspot.com/

Best Special Effects: BuzzFlash
http://www.buzzflash.com/

Self-nominations.

It's still December--am I too late? Hope not. Because you're probably buried in material for your Koufax Awards, I'll cut to the chase. Here are the nominations I'd make from my blog. I'm trying to be objective.

I would never presume to call Notes on the Atrocities the best blog--that's for the people to decide. But I might, tentatively, put in a pitch for Best Writing (though I think Jeanne has it sewed up again).

For Best Post, I have two candidates. They may also inform my bid for "best writing."

"Support the Troops"--but why? April 4, 2003.

Symbolism, June 15, 2003

For Most Humorous Post, a couple more (I was independently nominated elsewhere), a couple from my Friday Satire series.

Captured Prisoner Admits: "I am Osama bin Laden," August 8, 2003

Michael Savage confesses "It was all a joke," May 20, 2003

Thanks so much for your work on this. I believe it has the breadth and involvement to be the definitive blog awards (even, ahem, in the unlikely case that I don't win anything). I'm amazed by your work--

Em

Oh, I guess in Best Series, I should include my Dossiers project, which is hosted at Genfoods. I was perhaps my biggest effort of the year:

http://dossiers.genfoods.net/

Best blog: The Daily Kos (http://www.dailykos.com/)

Best treatment of a single issue: The Talking Points Memorandum's coverage of the Plame scandal (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_07_27.html#000281). Way out in front & with real reporting. It was a pleasure to watch the talkingpoints points show up in the Post a few days later. It really looked like Marshall drove that story. {And here's a second vote for a "Best Reporting" category!}

blindvinyl

Best new blog, best meta-blog: www.BOPnews.com (Blogging of the President 2004)

And I must mention my very own Dolphin: http://thedolphin.typepad.com.
It is, according to a respected political blogger, "charmingly random." As a multi-author site, it is still finding its personality. I cannot yet fix it in a category of the blog universe -- except, of course, "new." Oh well, wait till next year. (Yes, I grew up in Brooklyn, loving "dem bums," and oh how we were heartened by Sandy Koufax. Bless you for the naming of your awards.)

Oh, I think I made a mistake in nominating the following:

Best New Blog: misbehaving.net
Best Effects: Easy Bake Coven

I don't think the two blogs would qualify as being primarily political. Sorry!

Are you people nuts, or just ignant? Adam Felber's Fanatical Apathy should be voted "Most Homorous Blog" in a landslide that would make Atrios blush.
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