2004 Koufax Awards
Best Blog by a Non-Professional/Sponsored Blog
Best Blog by a Professional/Sponsored Blog
Koufax Semi-Finalist Nomination Posts
The Koufax Awards
Winners and Semi-Finalists
2005
2004
2003
Wampum Supports
Wampum on Gore (and Edwards)
Wampum on Edwards (and Gore)
Elizabeth Edwards is on our minds.
March 22, 2005
February 25, 2005
Perranoski Prize Winners Announced
Kevin Hayden, of the American Street has posted the winners of the first annual Perranowki Prizes. Those prizes are in addition to and complimentary of the Koufax Awards (Ron Perranowski was a relief pitcher for the Koufax era Dodgers).
Please go by, take a look, and thank Kevin for helping to promote a feeling of community among lefty bloggers and readers.
On another subject, Kevin has graciously designed an icon to award to the Koufax winners. It is very handsome. He emailed it to me. If the winners choose to do so, they are welcome to post it on their blogs in recognition of their awards. The problem is that I have no idea how to post the icon. It is in the form of a picture. Help, please.
February 19, 2005
Koufax Voting Closed
The voting for the 2004 Koufax Awards is closed. I have out the calculator and the green eye shades. The winners will be announced in a couple of days.
Thanks to all who particpated.
Update: Hey guys, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but really, you can quit posting votes now.
2nd Update: Okay, it is clear that nothing I can say will stop you folks from posting votes. The votes may not count but what the heck, if you have something nice to say about one of the finalists, have at it.
February 12, 2005
2004 Koufax Award Finalists Part II
The posts that follow will complete our listings for the finalists in each category of the 2004 Koufax Awards. Please vote once in each category for one of the listed finalists.
The listings for the first group of categories begins here with the individual categories listed below the linked post.
I apologize once again for the delay in posting the remaining categories. We noted today that a few blogs with significant vote counts had the vast majority of their votes coming from only one IP address. Now, my wife and I use the same IP address and having two votes from that address would not sound an alarm. It is harder to ignore a couple of dozen votes from the same address. We then had to check for multiple votes from the same IP address in other categories.
We have made some judgments as to which votes to count and which to exclude. Those judgments made a difference in the list of finalists in a couple categories.
If anyone has any complaint about our choices, appeals may be instituted by sending a letter, regular mail, to our offices. Please address the letter to Wampum, 1000 Iceberg Lane, Antartica. We will give your appeal all due consideration once we receive it.
With that unpleasantness behind us, please scroll down to the categories and vote by leaving a comment or by sending an email. You might want to say something nice about your favorite as I often quote comments in announcing the winners.
Let's all try to have fun and not take winning or losing too seriously.
2004 Koufax Award Finalists For Best Single Issue Blog
We have narrowed a very competitive field to eleven finalists in the category of Best Single Issue Blog. Those eleven each have a reasonably narrow focus but, taken together, encompass a broad range of issues. The single issues of the finalists can be as broad as economics, the media, or the Middle East. It can also be as narrow as the criminal justice system of a single state or, indeed, the machinations of a single politician.
Each is deserving of being a finalist. Congratulations to all eleven. Please vote once for one of the following:
Confined Space (Workplace Health & Safety)
The Daily DeLay (Tom DeLay)
The Daily Howler (The Media)
Brad DeLong (Economics)
Grits for Breakfast (Texas Justice System)
Informed Comment (Middle East)
Media Matters (Media)
Orcinus (Domestic Terrorism)
W. David Stephenson (Homeland Security)
Talk Left (Criminal Law)
Trish Wilson (Family Law)
Leave a comment or send an email to record your vote.
February 11, 2005
2004 Koufax Award Finalists for Best Post
There are millions of blog posts each year. From that huge number, about 100 were of such high quality as to attract a Koufax nomination for best post. We have now narrowed the contenders to just 11 individual posts.
Normally we do not list more than 10 finalists in any one category but the huge number of very good efforts as well as a multi-way tie left us with the option of including too many or too few finalists. Since we are liberals, we naturally chose the most inclusive path.
I highly recommend that you take a while and read each of the listed posts in one sitting. It is quite an experience to take in the variety and quality of those posts all at one time.
Once you have read them all again, please vote once for one of the following:
�Wounds That Don't Heal� by Richard Cranium at The All Spin Zone
�The African-American Blogging Thing� by Antigone at XX
�Just Go..." by Riverbend at Baghdad Burning
�And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink� by Jeanne d'Arc at Body and Soul
�Picking the Bones of the Raw Diet Debate� at Dogged Blog
�Evolutionary Theology� by Digby at Hullabaloo
"A Very Old Story" by Digby at Hullabaloo
�If America were Iraq, What would it be Like� by Juan Cole
�Timeline of Terror Alerts� by Julius Civitatus (with help from Biltud) at JuliusBlog
�A Dog Chasing A Car� at Suburban Guerrilla
�Exit Interview� at TBogg
Each of those is truly excellent. Please do not split your vote and if anyone says that the choice is clear (and I know that someone will say it about each of those posts), I will laugh out loud.
February 10, 2005
2004 Koufax Award Finalists for Best Blog
We have nine finalists for Best Blog (by a non-professional). Those nine have been chosen as the best overall blogs of 2004 by their readers and by their peers. They were chosen from a select group of more then 70 nominated blogs which, in turn, were chosen from the many hundreds (thousands?) of lefty sites.
The finalists represent the very best of a very large universe. Each is deserving of recognition and respect. Only one can win. That is, perhaps, a shame.
Please vote one time for one of the following.
The Eagles may have lost but there are at least three Philadelphia bloggers on that list. That should be some consolation to the City of Brotherly Love.
If anyone thinks the choice is easy among that group of talent, I envy you your certainty. Congratulations to all finalists. Please vote by comment or email.
2004 Koufax Awards For Best Group Blog
We have ten finalists in the category of Best Group Blog. A group is defined as two or more regular posters. There were many other deserving groups, but we had to draw the line somewhere.
Congratulations to all of the finalists. Each is deserving of being a finalist. Which group was the best in 2004? Please vote once for one of the following:
There is some serious talent in those groups.