The 2003 Koufax Awards
The time has arrived to begin the nomination process for the 2003 Koufax Awards. This is the second year of the awards. In the fast moving world of blogs, that qualifies them as a tradition. The purpose of the awards is to recognize and applaud the best of the left. It is supposed to be fun for us and for you. Please take the awards in the spirit in which they are offered.
Mary Beth and I will be accepting nominations during the month of December. Nominations may be submitted either by comment to this post or by email to either of us. The email addresses are at the right. Each week for the next few, we will attempt to post links to nominated posts and blogs so that we may have an informed electorate.
Some categories recognize specific posts. We request that, if possible, your nominations for those categories contain a hyperlink. Someone has to locate the link and if last year�s experience is any indication, locating all of the links for nominated posts is a lot of work. Help us out if you can. If you can not, describe the post as best you can and I will try to hunt it down.
On that note, please allow us to emphasis that we encourage you to nominate your own material. No one knows your posts better than you. If you have written something you think is particularly good, please let us know about it. If you feel uncomfortable publicly nominating your own material, please send an email. The source of the nomination will be kept confidential.
Shortly after the turn of the year, Mary Beth and I will tabulate the entries and narrow the nominees to about five or six finalists per category. We will post those finalists and open the voting for the awards. We expect the award winners to be announced in late January.
As Mary Beth and I will be tabulating the votes, nominations for PLA or Wampum, although appreciated, will not be counted. That is a shame as Flashback Friday would win my vote for Best Series.
There will be 11 categories this year. Those categories (links are to last year�s awards) are:
Best Blog
Atrios won last year. The category seeks to recognize the best overall work across the entire year. Which lefty blog do you consider indispensable?
Best Writing
Jeanne D�Arc of Body and Soul won last year. The category seeks to recognize the best writing across the entire year.Best Post
Jim Capozzola of The Rittenhouse Review won last year with his post entitled Al Gore and the Alpha Girls. The category is intended to identify the one post of the year that stands above all others for originality, insight, and writing. This is one of the categories in which it is most appropriate to nominate your own material.
Best Series
The Best Series Sandy was won last year by Atrios for his exhaustive coverage of the Trent Lott controversy. The category includes both regular features such as Mary Beth�s Flashback Fridays (alas, not eligible) as well as the best coverage of a single issue (such as Atrios� posts about Trent Lott last year). This is another category where we want you to send us your best stuff.Best Single Issue Blog
Jeralyn Merritt of Talk Left was awarded the 2002 Koufax for Best Single Issue Blog for her coverage of all things legal. Blogs that focus exclusively or almost exclusively on politics, economics, law or other specific areas are likely candidates for this award.Best Group Blog
This is a new category and hopefully self explanatory. A group is defined as two or more regular contributors.
Most Humorous Blog
Fanatical Apathy by Adam Felber won the 2002 award for most Humorous Blog. Who has consistently made you laugh this year?Most Humorous Post
The 2002 Award for Most Humorous Post went to Jesse Taylor of Pandagon for his Peggy Noonan parody. What post this year made you laugh out loud? If you have read or written anything particularly humorous this year, please send us a link.Best Design
Ampersand of Alas, A Blog won in 2002. The category is self explanatory. If any of you creative types care to design something that could be posted on the site of finalists and winners of a Koufax Award, please send it to us. We would love to actually have something to award.
Best New Blog
Roger Ailes won last year in a tight race. This year figures to be even tighter due to the explosion of new, good lefty blogs. A new blog is one that first posted on or after July 1, 2003. If your blog qualifies, send us a link. The growth in lefty bloggers has made it hard to keep up with them all and we would appreciate the help.
Best Special Effects
The award of best Special Effects is intended to go to the blog that makes the best use of anything other than words. Flash movies, charts, cartoons, pictures, diagrams all are appropriate. Blah 3 won last year for its use of flash movies.
Those are the eleven categories. If there is another one that you think should be added (or retained, a couple have been dropped from last year) please let us know and perhaps we will add one.
Everyone should take the Koufax Awards in the spirit in which they are intended. Do not take winning or not winning too seriously. Last year, someone objected to the awards on the ground that they were a popularity contest. We plead guilty as charged. How could they be anything else since voting is involved?
The idea behind the awards is to recognize the contributions of a number of people who give of their time, effort, insight, skill and humor without compensation. It is a chance to say a lot of nice things about a lot of people. We hope to help build and promote a feeling of community among lefty bloggers. This is supposed to be fun for us and for you. Anything that makes it less fun is inappropriate.
Send us some nominations.
Comments
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.
Posted by: stranger | December 11, 2003 12:20 PM
I'd like to nominate the collaborative blog "Killing Goliath" as best new blog and best group blog. Thanks.
Posted by: RC | December 11, 2003 12:30 PM
Best writing - Tbogg. Always funny, always sharp.
Posted by: Hart | December 11, 2003 12:31 PM
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.
Posted by: lea-p | December 11, 2003 12:35 PM
I hereby nominate Orcinus' The Political and the Personal for Best Post
Posted by: "Fair and Balanced" Dave | December 11, 2003 12:36 PM
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!)
Posted by: lea-p | December 11, 2003 12:42 PM
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
Posted by: kevin | December 11, 2003 12:48 PM
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. :)
Posted by: Elayne Riggs | December 11, 2003 12:53 PM
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.
Posted by: Jeanne | December 11, 2003 12:55 PM
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
Posted by: Katherine | December 11, 2003 12:56 PM
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).
Posted by: David | December 11, 2003 01:01 PM
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.
Posted by: lea-p | December 11, 2003 01:04 PM
best group: crooked timber
best writing: jeanne again
best blog: jeanne
Posted by: David | December 11, 2003 01:05 PM
Best Blog: Calpundit
Best Writing: Busy Busy Busy
Humorous Blogg: TBogg
Best single issue: Does David Corn count as a blog?
Posted by: ggw | December 11, 2003 01:09 PM
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.
Posted by: stranger | December 11, 2003 01:11 PM
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?
Posted by: Smokey | December 11, 2003 01:12 PM
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.
Posted by: Emma | December 11, 2003 01:18 PM
Oh, and I second "Best Conservative Blog," and presumptuously nominate Just One Minute.
Posted by: Emma | December 11, 2003 01:22 PM
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."
Posted by: Terry | December 11, 2003 01:26 PM
Best Blog: Daily Kos
Posted by: Mike | December 11, 2003 01:31 PM
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
Posted by: JadeGold | December 11, 2003 01:32 PM
Best Blog: Atrios/Daily Kos
Best Post: Pandagon, Twenty Most Annoying Conservatives of 2003
Posted by: Lord Kanti | December 11, 2003 01:35 PM
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
Posted by: Oliver | December 11, 2003 01:37 PM
Could we change these to The Jim Zorn Awards? Just wondering.
Posted by: some dude | December 11, 2003 01:38 PM
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
Posted by: CY | December 11, 2003 01:41 PM
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
Posted by: n69n | December 11, 2003 01:42 PM
best blog: atrios
best group: corrente
best writing: tbogg
Posted by: sputman | December 11, 2003 01:43 PM
Best New Blog: John Walchak's TrogWatch
http://trogwatch.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Generik | December 11, 2003 01:43 PM
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."
Posted by: Norbizness | December 11, 2003 01:44 PM
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.
Posted by: PZ Myers | December 11, 2003 01:45 PM
So is it an "official" ballot if we post it here? Or should we "send" it to you?
Posted by: dave | December 11, 2003 01:46 PM
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
Posted by: drapetomaniac | December 11, 2003 01:53 PM
Best Blog: dailykos/atrios tie
Posted by: cubswin39 | December 11, 2003 01:54 PM
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
Posted by: Mac Thomason | December 11, 2003 01:55 PM
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.
Posted by: Katherine | December 11, 2003 01:56 PM
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/
Posted by: Mara | December 11, 2003 01:58 PM
Best Blog: Kos and Atrios are both great, but Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo has become the essential read of the day.
Posted by: jmart | December 11, 2003 01:59 PM
Best blog is either Atrios or Nathan Newman.
Best series, no questions asked, is David Neiwert's series about fascism.
Posted by: Diamond LeGrande | December 11, 2003 02:03 PM
oy.
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.
Posted by: opus | December 11, 2003 02:04 PM
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)
Posted by: J.B. | December 11, 2003 02:04 PM
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/
Posted by: jules | December 11, 2003 02:04 PM
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 | December 11, 2003 02:05 PM
Best Writing: Orcinus - too heavy!
Funniest: USNDemVet - she is brutally funny.
Posted by: BudMan | December 11, 2003 02:07 PM
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)
Posted by: aenea | December 11, 2003 02:07 PM
Humorous Post: Blogotrol, from Very Very Happy.
Posted by: Thlayli | December 11, 2003 02:09 PM
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
Posted by: flory | December 11, 2003 02:11 PM
Most humorous: Instapundit. I mean it's got to be some sort of sick joke, right? Right?
Posted by: anon y mouse | December 11, 2003 02:12 PM
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
Posted by: spyral | December 11, 2003 02:13 PM
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.
Posted by: BlakNo1 | December 11, 2003 02:15 PM
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.
Posted by: slyblog harry | December 11, 2003 02:15 PM
Best New Blog: Steve Gillard
Posted by: Daryl | December 11, 2003 02:16 PM
Best Blog - DKOS
Best post - Orcinus's personal and political
Best group blog - Crooked Timber
Best series - busybusybusy, shorter series
Posted by: chris dub | December 11, 2003 02:17 PM
Best blog: dailykos
Best New Blog: Steve Gillard
Posted by: Daryl | December 11, 2003 02:18 PM
Best Single Issue: Juan Cole-Informed Comment
Posted by: flory | December 11, 2003 02:18 PM
Sorry didn't mean to vote twice.
Posted by: Daryl | December 11, 2003 02:19 PM
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.
Posted by: jk | December 11, 2003 02:20 PM
Best Writing/Best Blog: Talking Points Memo
Posted by: olaf | December 11, 2003 02:21 PM
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.
Posted by: mary | December 11, 2003 02:21 PM
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*.
Posted by: Hulka | December 11, 2003 02:26 PM
that should have been "Atrios for best blog," of course.
Posted by: Hulka | December 11, 2003 02:26 PM
busybusybusy for most humorous.
I am the Queen of Sheba.
Posted by: jordan | December 11, 2003 02:28 PM
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
Posted by: maurinsky | December 11, 2003 02:29 PM
best writing - Steve Gilliard
most humous post - yeah, "preznit give me turkee" - atrios
Posted by: woody | December 11, 2003 02:30 PM
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.
Posted by: John Reinan | December 11, 2003 02:30 PM
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.
Posted by: Charles Kuffner | December 11, 2003 02:30 PM
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.
Posted by: satiRic air tanK | December 11, 2003 02:35 PM
Best Blog: dKos
Best Design: dKos
Posted by: D-Mo | December 11, 2003 02:35 PM
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
Posted by: pontificator | December 11, 2003 02:35 PM
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
Posted by: Paranoid Pete | December 11, 2003 02:37 PM
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!
Posted by: Melissa | December 11, 2003 02:37 PM
Best Design : The Talent Show
Best Post : Bubbling Bliss & Beautiful Science
Most Humorous Post : George, you dirty little bitch!
Posted by: bambam | December 11, 2003 02:38 PM
Best Post -- the Cogent Provacatuer ( http://cogenteur.blogspot.com/ ) -- Operation Desert Snipe
Posted by: pontificator | December 11, 2003 02:40 PM
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).
Posted by: Cheryl | December 11, 2003 02:43 PM
Another Best Series:Kevin Drum /Calpundit Friday cat blogging.
Posted by: Cheryl | December 11, 2003 02:46 PM
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
Posted by: JP | December 11, 2003 02:48 PM
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.
Posted by: JP | December 11, 2003 02:49 PM
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
Posted by: Senor Bozo | December 11, 2003 02:50 PM
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
Posted by: Basharov | December 11, 2003 02:56 PM
I thought my series of posts on those astro-turf letters from our soldiers in Iraq were pretty good.
Posted by: Hesiod | December 11, 2003 02:56 PM
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
Posted by: emptywheel | December 11, 2003 02:57 PM
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.
Posted by: Hesiod | December 11, 2003 03:01 PM
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"
Posted by: squrim | December 11, 2003 03:08 PM
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
Posted by: Elias | December 11, 2003 03:10 PM
Funniest Blog: WTF is it now
Best Post: Presnit giv me turkee
Best writing: Billmon/Calpundit (tie)
Best Design: Kos (no contest)
Posted by: Mark H | December 11, 2003 03:11 PM
Best Group Blog -- DKos
Best Group Blog Runner Up -- Corrente
Best Series -- Bush Fedayeen Watch, Hesiod
Posted by: pontificator | December 11, 2003 03:14 PM
Best Post: Daniel Davies' "The Economics of Pounds Canto 45": http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2003_02_23_d-squareddigest_archive.html
Posted by: Jeremy Osner | December 11, 2003 03:15 PM
Oh yea:
Best new blog which shamelessly steals from Dave Barry: The Biomes Blog (www.biomescenter.com)
Posted by: Mark H | December 11, 2003 03:16 PM
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.
Posted by: Elias | December 11, 2003 03:19 PM
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.
Posted by: Thumb | December 11, 2003 03:26 PM
Any list of humorous blogs absolutely must include BartCop - www.bartcop.com. And once on the list, count BartCop with my vote!
Posted by: Proteus | December 11, 2003 03:29 PM
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).
Posted by: bcdm | December 11, 2003 03:29 PM
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
Posted by: Janet | December 11, 2003 03:32 PM
Best Blog
CalPundit
Brad DeLong
Atrios
Best Writing
Billmon