The Rules: In the comments section below or by email to scrutinyhooligans(AT)yahoo(DOT)com, you can nominate up to three BlogAsheville blogs in each category. You may also add more categories, to which anyone may nominate favored blogs/bloggers. Anyone may nominate blogs in this competition, so please post about it at your blogs and email me the results. Only bloggers on the BlogAsheville blogroll are eligible for nominations. Nominations will close Friday, June 15 at 11:59 pm.
The Vote: On Saturday you'll receive a ballot and vote for your favorites from the blogs that are nominated. Polling will close when the band starts playing. The winners will be announced at the set break or thereabouts.
All rules are subject to abject changes.
The Superlatives:
Most Likely to Make Money by Blogging
Least Likely to Make Money by BloggingBest Design
Most Likely to Make You Laugh Out Loud
Best Art/Photos
Blogger you'd most like to see naked
Best Local Happenings
Best Political
Makes Me Feel Happiest
Most Inspirational
Most in Need of a Redesign
Most Likely to Have New Material
Best BlogAsheville Post 2005-2006
Best Post 2006
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Best Writing
Best Overall
UPDATED WITH NEW SUPERLATIVES:
Blogger I'd Most Like to Have a Beer With
Least Likely to Care About Traffic
Biggest Slacker
15 comments:
This is a great idea.
I'm off to vote.
Here's some of my nominations.
Best Design
Edgy Mama
Bird on the Moon
Most Likely to Make You Laugh Out Loud
Edgy Mama
Easy Bake Coven
Best Art/Photos
The Avant Garden
Zenography
Lowell Allen's Serial Photo
Blogger You'd Most Like to See Naked
Yeah, right
Best Local Happenings
AshVegas
Best Political
Scrutiny Hooligans
Makes Me Feel Happiest
Easy Bake Coven
Hangover Journals
Most Inspirational
Hangover Journals
Bird on the Moon
Modern Peasant
Most Likely to Have New Material
Scrutiny Hooligans
Best Writing
1000 Black Lines
Flasheville
Of course you left out the most important category when it comes to voting.
Blogger I'd Most Like to Have a Beer With
how about something that i could win, like "most eclectic content", "least likely to care about web traffic" or "happiest with obscurity"?
:)
Here are a couple of nominations for best BlogAsheville post of 2006.
LiveBlogging Markos and Jerome by Screwy Hoolie
To the Witch Who Hit My Van and Ran by Edgy Mama
How about adding:
Biggest slacker blog
I can think of several!
Here's my ballot, although I reserve the right to add some later. When I was filling this in, I was struck by the talent and diversity we have here at BlogAsheville. What an amazing community!
Most Likely to Make Money by Blogging
ME (I’m making beer $. Finally, Woohoo!)
Ashvegas (persistent)
Brainshrub (extremely persistent)
Least Likely to Make Money by Blogging
Modern Peasant
Hangover Journals
Syntax of Things
(sorry, y’all, but you know it’s true)
Best Design
1000 Black Lines
Modern Peasant
Back Forty
Most Likely to Make You Laugh Out Loud
Ashvegas
Restless Mama (though she needs to update!)
Hangover Journals
(Okay, I make myself LOL, but I'm never sure if I make others LOL).
Best Art/Photos
Zenography
Ashvegas
Blue Ridge Blog
Blogger you'd most like to see naked
(I have to pick only three?)
Blogger you’d most like to drink a beer with
(Who haven’t I had a beer with?)
Tingle Alley (where is she? Why isn’t she blogging?)
Back Forty
Dirty Greek
Best Local Happenings
Ashvegas
BlogAsheville
Best Political
Scrutiny Hooligans
Brainshrub
DEMbloggers
Makes Me Feel Happiest
Domestic Bliss (even though I don’t knit)
Easy Bake Coven
Blogasheville
Most Inspirational
Lies & Myth
Domestic Bliss
Dirty Greek
Most in Need of a Redesign
Ashvegas
Scrutiny Hooligans
Lies & Myth
Most Likely to Have New Material
Scrutiny Hooligans
Ashvegas
Blogasheville
Best BlogAsheville Post 2005-2006
June, 13, 2006, Extrablogiversapaloozathon 2006, feat. Jolt Wagon.
Saturday, September 10, 2005, The New Orleans Blues (okay, it was written by Tom Robbins, but still, incredibly moving).
(I can't get the links to work. Help?)
Best Post 2006
I’m going to have to think about this one! There are sooooo many.
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
(All of us!)
Hangover Journals
Scrutiny Hooligans
Best Writing
Flasheville (when we update)
Ashvegas
Lies & Myth
Best Overall
Ashvegas
Scrutiny Hooligans
EM sez: (I can't get the links to work. Help?)
Click on the time for any post and it will take you to a permanent URL. Use that URL to link.
Most Likely to Make Money by Blogging
- Brainshrub
Least Likely to Make Money by Blogging
- Scrutiny Hooligans (no advertising!)
Best Design
- 1000 Black Lines
Most Likely to Make You Laugh Out Loud
- Hangover Journals
- Edgy Mama
Best Art/Photos
- Lowell Allen's Serial Photo
- Zen (Flickr Page)
- Modern Peasant
Best Local Happenings
- Ashvegas
Best Political
- Scrutiny Hooligans
Makes Me Feel Happiest
- Hangover Journals
Most Inspirational
- Bird on the Moon
- The Syntax Of Things
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
- Modern Peasant
- BlogAsheville
Best Writing
- Edgy Mama
Best Overall
- Easy Bake Coven
- AshVegas
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Best Non-WNC North Carolina Blogger
- Anonymoses
actually, em... i didn't make money per se, but i have had an anonymous benefactor donate a little bit of $ to help offset my bandwidth.
can't really buy a dinner for two with it, but it's something, no? :)
Most Likely to Make Money by Blogging
Ashvegas
Edgy Mama
Brainshrub
Least Likely to Make Money by Blogging
Oh SHUT UP already! I know, I know.
Best Design
Modern Peasant
Bird on the Moon
The Syntax of Things
Most Likely to Make You Laugh Out Loud
What the Hell?
Easy Bake Coven
Best Art/Photos
Blue Ridge Blog
Zenography
Modern Peasant
Blogger you'd most like to see naked
Now, now. I love you all, but I'm not going there.
Best Local Happenings
Blogasheville
Ashvegas
Best Political
Scrutiny Hooligans
Brainshrub
Makes Me Feel Happiest
Moon Meadow Farm
Edgy Mama
Bird on the Moon
Most Inspirational
Bird on the Moon
Zenography
Domestic Bliss
Most in Need of a Redesign
Blogasheville! It is loading slooooooow these days and I think it's that damn news feed on the sidebar, not to mention that if you click on those and get into their forums they are full of ugly nasty people saying ugly nasty things.
Most Likely to Have New Material
Scrutiny Hooligans
Edgy Mama
The Syntax of Things
Best BlogAsheville Post 2005-2006
Jim's photoshop of me for sheriff. That rocked.
Best Post 2006
My cows. I want my cows to garner wider recognition. ;-)
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
Oh, everybody. We all deserve wider recognition.
Best Writing
Me. Yes, ME! Me me me me me me me! Ha!
No, never mind. Just kidding. /inner child
The Syntax of Things
What the Hell?
Edgy Mama
Best Overall
Bird on the Moon
UPDATED WITH NEW SUPERLATIVES:
Blogger I'd Most Like to Have a Beer With
I've already had a beer or six with more or less all of you. A++++ beer drinkers! Would drink with again!!!1!
But bring Phidoux on up here. I don't think I've had a beer with him yet.
Least Likely to Care About Traffic
Ryvr Scrawl
Biggest Slacker
Probably me, again, an honestly won award. ;-)
Most Likely to Make Money by Blogging:
The War in Context
Brainshrub
Least Likely to Make Money by Blogging:
Me & Mine
Ryvr Scrawl
The Penguin-Driven Life
Best Design:
Raphael Doxos
Easy Bake Coven
The Avant-Garde Patriot
Most Likely to Make You Laugh Out Loud:
Hangover Journals
Ashvegas
What the Hell?
Best Art/Photos:
Lowell Allen's Serial Photo
Zenography
Ashvegas
Blogger you'd most like to see naked:
Hopkins
Best Local Happenings:
Ashvegas
1000 Black Lines
Blogasheville
Best Political:
ScruHoo
The War in Context
Dirty Greek
Makes Me Feel Happiest:
Bird on the Moon
The Avant Garden
Most Inspirational:
Bird on the Moon
Lowell Allen's Serial Photo
Most in Need of a Redesign:
Ashvegas
High Country Conservative
Peaceful Hippo
Most Likely to Have New Material:
Raphael Doxos
ScruHoo
The War in Context
Best BlogAsheville Post 2005-2006:
Best Post 2006
Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Hangover Journals
Natures
Edgy Mama
Best Writing:
Hangover Journals
Edgy Mama
Flasheville
Best Overall:
Ashvegas
Modern Peasant
Blogger I'd Most Like to Have a Beer With:
(among the ones I haven't)
George at Dirty Greek
Susan at Easy Bake Coven
The War in Context
Least Likely to Care About Traffic:
Modern Peasant
Evening Rose
Best BlogAsheville Post:
An Interview With John Armor
Scenes From the Rally
Happy Marriage Protection Sunday
This is a great idea! I'll add my nominations shortly.
i know, nominating one's own blog could be viewed as narcissism, but i don't care. :)
most likely to make money by blogging:
brainshrub
edgy mama
ashvegas
least likely to make money by blogging:
the syntax of things
domestic bliss
the hangover journals
best design:
bird on the moon
raphael doxos
lowell allen's serial photo
most likely to make you laugh out loud:
the hangover journals
ashvegas
what the hell?
best art/photos:
modern peasant
lowell allen's serial photo
myavantgarden
blogger you'd most like to see naked:
bliss
ash
brian hopkins
best local happenings:
blogasheville
ashvegas
best political:
scrutiny hooligans
dembloggers
makes me feel happiest:
ashvegas
easy bake coven
the hangover journals
most inspirational:
modern peasant
scrutiny hooligans
most in need of a redesign:
the syntax of things
ashvegas
blogasheville
most likely to have new material:
scrutiny hooligans
edgy mama
modern peasant
best writing:
the hangover journals
1000 black lines
what the hell?
blogger i'd most like to have a beer with:
susan @ ebc (she's the only one i can think of who i haven't had a beer with)
least likely to care about traffic:
the syntax of things
modern peasant
domestic bliss
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