“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant.”
December 8, 2006 – 8:14 amThis is the Pearl Harbor movie version of the quote attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. I would have done this post yesterday on the anniversary, but the giant was still asleep.
It is that time of year again as we ramp up to begin The Best of Blogs Awards 2006. We have some very exciting news this year and we are not yet going to spill the beans until the ink is dry, but suffice it to say that this year’s awards will far outweigh anything we have ever done in the past.
We are taking suggestions for categories this year at the moment and would love to have all of your suggestions. If we have any volunteers for working behind the scenes, we would love to hear from you as well. My email is below or feel free to use the comments section. We will have buttons and banners for those wanting to help promote the awards as soon as I can muster enough “volunteer” work. We will be giving out plenty of links to those that can lend a hand, and would love to add you on our sponsor list.
Many of the other blogging award sites are now wrapping up or are nearly completed. Our awards will be a little more exciting than a few days of nominations and mass voting for a few days and then sit back until the ride is over. We would like all of you to keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all time and make sure you are belted and ready, because this BoB 2006 will be the wildest ride any of us have seen. We will have our usual format and mission, but the end results will surprise even the best of our critics.
My email for those interested in being a volunteer, those interested in sponsorship of the awards, and those that might just have a question I can answer is jturner [at] onebyonemedia [dot] com. If any of you want to tell your friends about nominations and categories, now is the time to awaken that giant in your blog and get out the word!
26 Responses to ““I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant.””
We can volunteer and we won’t be prejudice. We did nominate a couple of blogs for the weblog awards, but is was the larger blogs which ended up with the nominations. It’s all good fun for us just reading the blogs anyway.
We have been reading blogs for a coupe of years, read the lesser known blogs (though we think the ones we read are quality) sometimes we read the larger heavily subscribed to blogs.
Our education is geology and public relations but I’m sure there is something we can help with.
We have a new appreciation for the blogs we read and the new ones we find every day. After starting our blog we found it is much more difficult to keep up a blog than we expected, at least a quality blog which keeps even a few readers coming back for more.
By BRAD on Dec 8, 2006
Jim, count me in. I’m a glutton for punishment.
By Anne-Marie on Dec 9, 2006
I sent in my nominations!
By Miss Chi Chi on Dec 10, 2006
You know you can count on me!
By Mamacita on Dec 11, 2006
The cat blogging community is exploding…Hey, don’t laugh! Not blogs about cats…Blog written BY cats. (seriously, don’t laugh!) And some of them are getting VERY creative…
There’s my suggestion for a category. My cat wil be eagerly awaiting its inclusion
By Thumper on Dec 12, 2006
I just thought you ought to know that your ‘become a copywriter’ likk goes to this:
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when it ought to be this:
http://www.become-a-copywriter.com/
By chasmyn on Dec 12, 2006
you should consider adding categories for best health blogs, best patient blogs, best mental health blogs as those areas have exploded in the last year.
By Philip Dawdy on Dec 12, 2006
Any chance you can separate blogs for children’s and YA literature from the other literary blogs?
By Anne on Dec 13, 2006
Definitely need a category for religion/spirituality.
By Brenda on Dec 13, 2006
Good on you, Jim! I applaud your continued commitment to the blogging community with BOB! If you DO give an award for blogs written by cats, I second the nomination of Max at Psychokitty.
Have you considered the really fine blogs that focus on environment and natural science and basically, day after day, pay tribute to our home?
Florida Cracker at http://pureflorida.blogspot.com/ is a great example of this type of writing and there are numerous others gaining readership each day. The nice thing about these blogs is that they bring the natural world to the lay reader in a way that is interesting, humourous and rife with great photos.
Good luck with this years BOB!
By vicki on Dec 14, 2006
When do the awards start ?
I was just looking at the weblog awards site and damn it if isn’t a little insane where all the people are complaining of cheating and they have removed votes due to them all coming from the same ip address. If it is that complicated to run an award I wonder of it’s worth it.
I always thought awards should be fun, but looking over that site itl
looks like it can turn sort of ugly.
By coffee lady on Dec 18, 2006
I am confused as to when the voting begins. The rules say December 19, 2005, but that was for last year, right? Have I already missed the voting for this year?
By Misterteacher on Dec 19, 2006
What were we supposed to do again?
I would volunteer for whatever it is you need but I’ll be spending some time in a hospital bed with a delicate transplant soon.
By muzik on Dec 22, 2006
I can do some volunteering . . .
By Anita on Dec 27, 2006
Sure, I will pitch in if needed…
Also, you might want to entertain some Best Overseas Blogs: Asia, Africa, Mid-East and such….Brings in much traffic and there is some great stuff here…
L
By Lonnie B Hodge on Jan 4, 2007
As last year’s Biggest Blog Whore winner, I would love to be a judge and help in any way!
I also want you guys on the station to promote the awards.
YES! A best cat-blog would be wonderful to see, you really should see all the cats blogging out there.
Love the BoBs!
By WebKittyn on Jan 5, 2007
what about a category about best dating blog (instead of just SEX)
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