BlogAsheville Awards: Nominations are Open

The 2007 BlogAsheville Awards, to be held at Extravablogiversapaloozathon 2007 on September 29th, work like this:

1. We'll open nominations for a couple of weeks. You can nominate any blogger for any category. For the "Best Post" category, you have to use one written between last year's awards and this year's. Leave your nominations in this comment thread, or email them to me at scrutinyhooligans at yahoo. Please post links to this post at your blogs and encourage folks to come nominate. Best new blog category can be any blogger who's started up since last year's awards.

2. I'll close the nominations when I get a mind to, and we'll put up a voting form at Survey Monkey. We're not going to do any paper ballots this year because they're a royally unnecessary pain in my keister. Voting will close on the night of the party.

3. If you won a prize last year, you have to bring a prize this year. And we'll need a few other people to bring prizes as well. Prizes can be whatever you want them to be. Last year I won a nice ceramic sake mug and some cool George W. refrigerator magnets.

4. Winners will proudly be able to display some sort of something at their blog to tell everyone how well they're thought of.

Here are the categories:

Most Likely to Make Money by Blogging

Least Likely to Make Money by Blogging

Best 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 Post 2006-2007

Best New Blog

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition

Best Writing

Best Overall

Blogger I'd Most Like to Have a Beer With

Least Likely to Care About Traffic

Biggest Slacker

Here's your chance to recognize those bloggers you've been admiring from afar. Surf through the blogroll. Refresh your recollections. Nominate liberally.