The 2008 awards are now underway, and we are taking nominations until Christmas Eve. That will give our judges time to review all of the blogs and return with winners next weekend. You can nominate anyone, even yourself.
- To be eligible, a blog must be about the NWT or written by a person in the NWT.
- Anyone can nominate a blog for the contest.
- To be eligible, individual blog entries must have been published in 2008.
The blogs you nominate can be any format: photoblogging, liveblogging, videoblogging, columns, personal stories.
To ensure fairness, I have assigned judges to categories they will not be eligible for. Best Blog and Best Post will be judged by a panel of bloggers who live outside the NWT.
Best Blog (Panel: Tina, Jen, Craig, Clare, Jackie, Kara, Kennie)
Best overall.
Best Post (Panel: Tina, Jen, Craig, Clare, Jackie, Kara, Kennie)
Best individual post of the year.
Best New Blog (Judge: Alex)
Best blog that began within the 2008 calendar year.
Best Photography (Judge: Megan)
Best original photography. It doesn't have to be a photoblog; it can be any blog with original photography.
Best Series (Judge: Laura)
Best series of posts about a specific topic. This does not have to be a formal series, but the posts should be presented as parts of a single unit on the blog.
Posts
21 comments:
OK, I'll get us started with some nominations.
Best Series:
The Naked Angelina Jolie Self-Portrait Challenge (On The Present Moment)
Best Post:
Issue 174 of The Hoff (Alex Is Up North)
On Death and Dying and Gerbil Funerals (Dispatches from the Failed Mommies Club)
On Coldness (The Midnight Sun-Times)
Best New Blog:
The Ferry Tales
Best Blog:
Dispatches from the Failed Mommies Club
On The Present Moment
Best Post:
Requiring Some Mindless Entertainment (EditUndo)
I won't nominate a series because I am judging that one, but here goes...
Best blog: Reflections in the Snow-Covered Hills (http://stevemegan.blogspot.com/)
Best new blog: On the Tundra of the North (http://onthetundraofthenorth.blogspot.com/)
I'll come up with a best post nomination soon.
Best photo blog: www.dustysensor.ca
The more I think about it, the more I find.
Best Series:
Nights in the Spacelab (InuvikPhil on YouTube)
Best New Blog:
Cynthia's Arctic Adventure
Best Post:
One Person, One Vote (Northern Sights)
THIS is what passes for reporting these days? (Serious Midnight)
Getting Over My Heterophobia (Gay White North)
I'm not going to nominate anyone for Best Photography, because I'm judging the category.
I nominate Sur les routes de l'Asie for Best Blog, Best New Blog, Best Photography, and Best Series (the whole blog is one big series, really). And I nominate "En route vers l'Everest" (on Sur les routes de l'Asie) for best post. The only post ever where someone phones her parents from Mount Everest.
Ok I'm coming back for more, but for right now I have:
Best Photography:
Inuvik photos
(http://inuvikphil.wordpress.com/)
Best Blog:
Alex Is Up North
(http://acupnorth.blogspot.com/)
Another nominee for best post: Harper is a douchebag on Ferry Tales.
Hi Megan,
I'm a Yellowknifer and I run the litblog The Book Mine Set. I see on the side of your page "For a list of NWT Blogs go to NWT Blogs" but there doesn't seem to be an actual link. I'd like to register my blog on an NWT Blog Roll but haven't been able to find one. I'd also like to check out some of the others. Could you point me in the right direction, please?
John: I've fixed the link. Thanks for letting me know.
Amy runs NWT Blogs: www.nwtblogs.com.
Thanks!
On second thought, I'm gonna do the tacky thing and nominate myself: Overheard in cabs for Best Series.
I'm also going to do the tacky thing and nominate one of my own posts.
http://theferrytales.blogspot.com/2008/11/sunshine-club.html
I was going to nominate Ferry Tales for Best New Blog, but I see you beat me to it!
I am a doofus and am here to make some nominations I thought had already been made:
Best Blog:
Dave's Snarky Northern Blog
Book Mine Set
Best Series:
The Being David Hasselhoff Contest. This was one series with two rounds. (If there's tackiness to be had, I want in on it. Where's my hat with the reindeer antlers?)
Nominations close tonight, so I'll be going around to notify all of the bloggers. I hope that we can have winners by this weekend. Judges, I'll e-mail you.
Thanks Megan!
I nominate
http://www.yellowknife-dump.blogspot.com/
for best photography blog.
what about a new category?
Best husband/wife NT blogging team
with our dustysensor/editundo combo.
:)
thanks for the nominations, we are tickled!
Aren't you gonna post the nominees? Or are you too busy in Vegas?
Sorry, I should have been more clear: This is the list of nominees.
thank you for your article. i find it after to 1 month... good evening.
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