OK, nominations are in and over and have been subjected to analysis and rigorous testing, and shortlists have been derived. Now you get to vote. Links to all the blogs that have been nominated are in the notes at the bottom, in case you are unfamiliar with any of them and want to vote fairly, instead of partisanly voting for your mates...In order to vote you will need an LJ log in or an Open ID log in (instructions for how to log in with Open ID are here). If you're reading this, it's 99% certain that you already have an Open ID, so it shouldn't be an issue. You don't need to vote in every category if you don't want to, and if you just want to see the results without voting, don't select any options and just click "submit vote". Nobody gets to see who has voted for what except me, and I promise not to tell, so you have no need to be shy about voting for anyone you like in any category.
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Poll #1243314 SB's Very Prestigious Blog of the Year Awards - Category Vote
This poll is closed.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None
Best Fandom Blog by a Single Person
Andrew Rilstone
12 (11.1%)
Cadhla 7 (6.5%)
Karen Healey 21 (19.4%)
Lizbee 55 (50.9%)
Whatever by John Scalzi 13 (12.0%)
Best Political Blog by a Single Person
Liz Williams 11 (15.5%)
SepticIsle 7 (9.9%)
Stumbling and Mumbling by Chris Dillow 7 (9.9%)
The People's Republic of Mortimer 15 (21.1%)
The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant 31 (43.7%)
Best General Blog by a Single Person
InnerBrat 53 (40.2%)
Jim Hines 11 (8.3%)
Minnesattva 17 (12.9%)
Naamah Darling 18 (13.6%)
Wil Wheaton 33 (25.0%)
Best Group Blog or LJ Community
Boing Boing 30 (29.4%)
DiggerDyDum 10 (9.8%)
Feministe 16 (15.7%)
Feminist SF 31 (30.4%)
Language Log 15 (14.7%)
Prettiest Blog Design
Claire Wain 10 (14.1%)
Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings 8 (11.3%)
Devil's Kitchen 18 (25.4%)
GinaSketch 25 (35.2%)
MezzoBlue 10 (14.1%)
Geekiest Blog
Charlie Stross 12 (11.7%)
Stephen Fry 57 (55.3%)
Strange Maps 11 (10.7%)
SV-POW! 11 (10.7%)
Tetrapod Zoology 12 (11.7%)
Best Dead Tree-Based Blog
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre 38 (42.7%)
Comment is Free 12 (13.5%)
James May 24 (27.0%)
Mark Steel 7 (7.9%)
Rhodri Marsden's Cyberclinic 8 (9.0%)
Wittiest Blog
Anna Jane Clare 10 (13.5%)
Mitch Benn 21 (28.4%)
Pink Dog Blog 9 (12.2%)
Pink Weasel 20 (27.0%)
Richard Herring 14 (18.9%)
Male Blogger I Would Most Like to Have Sex With (if they were available and attracted to me)
Alex Wilcock 12 (25.0%)
Bad Habits 6882 6 (12.5%)
James Graham 8 (16.7%)
Mat GB 14 (29.2%)
Monolithix 8 (16.7%)
Female Blogger I would Most Like To Have Sex With (if they were available and attracted to me)
HalosKitten 9 (11.2%)
InnerBrat 43 (53.8%)
Olivia Judson 8 (10.0%)
Steerpikelet 10 (12.5%)
Steph Ashley 10 (12.5%)
Why are there no Ticky Boxes in this poll? I demand Ticky Boxes!
Ticky Box! 87 (65.9%)
Thank you 61 (46.2%)
I am mollified now 58 (43.9%)
No I'm not, you're taking the piss! 37 (28.0%)
signed, the Ticky Box Liberation Front. 80 (60.6%)
Some notes:
- if you want to link to this post, feel free. If you are on LJ, you don't even have to link if you don't want, you can just embed the poll in a post of your own by inserting this bit of code in triangular code brackets: lj-poll-1243314. I'd rather you put a link to this post in there somewhere, though.
- Do feel free to let people know that they have been shortlisted, and that they can pimp the poll out to get their mates to vote for them. The more the merrier!
- shiny shiny graphics for you to post to your blog to get people to vote for you are here. They link to the top post in the "very prestigious blog of the year awards" tag, which will be this one. When this category is over and the next one is going up, they will link to that, and then when the awards are over, the top post will be the results.
- I am not Iain Dale, therefore, regardless of the many people who nominated me and other sites I write for (thank you, by the way, Horatio is pleased), I haven't included myself or any of the sites I write for in any of the categories. Apologies to Sunny for this: hopefully one day someone who isn't affiliated with Lib Con will run a poll like this... And Lib Dem Voice isn't there because nobody nominated it; strange but true.
- to try and avoid accusations of bias, each category has been arranged in alphabetical order.
- Links to the shortlisted blogs (back to top):
- Best Fandom Blog by a Single Person: Andrew Rilstone,cadhla, Karen Healey,
- Best Political Blog by a Single Person:
- Best General Blog by a Single Person:
- Best Group Blog or LJ Community: Boing Boing,diggerdydum, Feministe, Feminist SF, Language Log
- Prettiest Blog Design (I get the feeling that a few of these were nominated purely on content, and a few of them purely on design of the actual blog. Vote with your conscience.):
- Geekiest Blog: Charlie Stross, Stephen Fry, Strange Maps, SV-POW!, Tetrapod Zoology
- Best Dead Tree-Based Blog: Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, Comment is Free, James May, Mark Steel, Rhodri Marsden's Cyberclinic
- Wittiest Blog:
- Male Blogger I Would Most Like to Have Sex With: Alex Wilcock,
- Female Blogger I would Most Like To Have Sex With:
For transparency, here's who I voted for:
Best Fandom Blog by a Single Person: Lizbee
Best Political Blog by a Single Person: The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant
Best General Blog by a Single Person: InnerBrat
Best Group Blog or LJ Community: Feminist SF
Prettiest Blog Design: GinaSketch
Geekiest Blog: Stephen Fry
Best Dead Tree-Based Blog: Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Wittiest Blog: Pink Weasel (sorry Mitch)
Male Blogger I Would Most Like to Have Sex With: James Graham (there I go, voting for the unattainable)
Female Blogger I Would Most Like to Have Sex With: InnerBrat (there I go, voting for the unattainable AGAIN)
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