This weblog awards contest has few people up in arms because WUWT is currently leading. Lucia points out some of the dynamics of silliness that go on related to it.
My take on it: it’s all simply fun, and the outcome affects nothing, heck there’s not even a prize except for a sidebar badge. But in the spirit of that fun, I thought I’d share some of my favs:
- Best Blog – I’m going with Huffington Post, for having the courage to run Harold Ambler’s essay on Al Gore
- Best Online Community – Our friend Jennifer Marohasy is in the running, she needs a little help
- Best Liberal Blog – I note that BigCityLib is not present, so I have no pick. Though given Wonkette’s lead, choice is irrelevant
- Best Conservative Blog – This is a tough one, as many of these have befriended WUWT. But I think I have no truer friend than Kate over at Small Dead Animals
- Best Celebrity Blogger – Hands down, Wil Wheaton, the rest are just noise
- Best Technology Blog – I like Engadget for this.
- Best European Blog – Not only for content, but for widgets, Luboš Motl and The Reference Frame
- Best Science Blog – Take your pick
Here are some categories that didn’t make it this year and my nominees:
Best tongue in cheek commenter: Steve Mosher
Best blog that is my inspiration: Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit
Best cheerleader: Gosh, there are so many. Roger Pielke Sr. has been stalwart as has been Joe D’Aleo. Evan Jones and John Goetz come to mind. So do Russ Steele and Gary Boden, and Leon B. and ‘jeez’, tough choices. But given all these choices….I think perhaps ‘smokey’ might be the winner here though.
Best angry blogger not nominated: Joe Romm of Climate Progress seems to be the clear winner, though Tamino is worthy of note
Best troll: TCO aka TCOisbanned
Best reason for me to stop blogging: my family that doesn’t get enough attention from me as it is
Best label from a detractor who is now belly up: “Reverend Anthony’s Screeching Mercury Monkeys” …from editor Tom Gascoyne of the Chico Beat, now history.
Best Silly Logo: Gary Boden’s rendition above
Best Orange Wiener Dog in a sidebar: Lucia’s the Blackboard
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Wondering Aloud (10:41:26) :
hey now…i just asked for a link…that’s all! LOL
Best blog (OK, my favorite): http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/
Mark C: They AGW folks are shooting themselves in the foot if they call specks spots. It will end up looking like the cooling effect of decreasing solar activity is even stronger than it is !
I like Anthony’s blog a great deal but I see it more as a news blog than a science blog. However, for pioneering work his surface stations .org is far better than anything produced at realclimate.
For sheer technical/scientific excellence and totallt crucial AGW busting you cannot beat climateaudit. Sorry Anthony, but I will say that the first blog I read when I sit at my PC is yours, followed by icecap followed by co2science finishing at climateaudit because it takes me some time to get my old head around the discussions.
Keep up the good work, please
Just read Lucia’s post on the subject of the weblogs. Got quite a laugh out of those silly suggestions that were found and posted on how to cheat. Just scrubbing cookies is sooooo lame. You’ve also got to ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** and *****.
{You didn’t think I’d actually tell you how to cheat, did you?} Even a volatile ISP address won’t be enough to cut it. ’nuff said.
sorry, should be co2sceptics
It’s a shame ClimateAudit has only 11% of the vote up to now.
I was hoping substance would count for more.
stephen richards (11:26:31) :
LOL…that’s my routine as well! although i do go to CO2Science from time to time as well.
While we are on the subject of, ahem, clarity, integrity and scientific openness –
You though it was difficult to get a single employee to divulge their secrets whilst NASA were merely an arm of the Pentagon….,
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/05/obama_nasa_military_chumship_thoughts/
If they merge I would expect charges to be brought against anyone so much as enquiring the wrong way about records and such.
Pierre Gosselin (11:35:19) :
I think part of the issue with Climate Audit is that run-of-the-mill dolts like me have a hard time getting to the meat of what Steve is driving at a lot of the time.
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on the topic of anti-science…I guess anti-science is now defined as science that is based on data and observations and not irrelevant computer models!
Anthony
UAH is out on Dr Specer’s new site. It’s down to 0.18
OT
Dirk Maxeiner provided the following link:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kary_mullis_on_what_scientists_do.html
If you got 30 mins., worth the watch!
Jennifer Marohasy is incredible.
Educated, qualified, and not kow towing to AGW promoters.
Harold Ambler’s post at HuffPo, and the class with which he has posted here, shows better than possibly anything I have yet seen how bereft of integrity, ideas, or serious ability the AGW community has become.
And the e-mail chain that is linked off of Jennifer’s webiste, where AGW defenders directly manipulate the BBC news, should be chilling to all who care about freedom of thought.
oops sorry. 🙂
Harold Ambler (08:30:51) :
“Arianna Huffington herself read and accepted my article and directed her staff to post it. She was my primary, and only, contact at the Huffington Post”.
It’s a disgrace.
What’s happened to the fundamental right of FREEDOM OF PRESS?
So I am an ASS now? Wow, I have a title! God still loves me! Jesus rode an ass on palm Sunday!
It appears the contest organizer’s efforts to prevent ballot stuffing is so far successful… WUWT is still leading by a wide margin and Climate Audit is still kicking RealClimate’s butt… 🙂
Climate Audit has some very heavy statistics and math posts which would tend to overwhelm the non-statistical readers.
Re: “Best label from a detractor who is now belly up: “Reverend Anthony’s Screeching Mercury Monkeys” …from editor Tom Gascoyne of the Chico Beat, now history.”
Schadenfreude, as one contributor to this blog has already noted, is not a very pretty human emotion. Nevertheless, my enthusiasm over the demise of Gascoyne’s publication cannot be suppressed. I only wish I had been able to put together at least one lampooning parody of it (“The Chico Bleat”) before it sank beneath the waves.
But you can’t say Tom is down on the count. Evidently he is still toxic enough to maintain a position at KCHO, the local PBS affiliate. He is likely, and probably should be, a permanent fixture of Chico culture, if only to serve as an example.
“..I think part of the issue with Climate Audit is that run-of-the-mill dolts like me have a hard time getting to the meat of what Steve is driving at a lot of the time…”
The problem is that Steve is now doing real science at the top level, and kicking ass in conferences. But that kind of thing is deeply technical, and hard for most bloggers to understand or appreciate. You could say that he has risen above blogging…
Anthony is also doing science, but less complex and much more accessible – pictures of weather stations and pie charts are easier to understand. That’s probably why he got more starter votes – in a way it’s a comparative insult!
I think that we all feel that a vote for Anthony is also a proxy vote for Steve, but we can’t split our numbers. All the Real Climate crowd have already given up on trying to push their blog, and are advising everyone to vote for Pharyngula, purely to stop ‘the deniers’. This means that to win, we need to be better than the voters from TWO other blogs, so we really will need every point.
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Aargh I would bevotin’ for yer lassie, but you have not put up a photo of one of dem mermaid dugong thingies in years.
Wot a centrefold for ol tars at sea for decades.
Instead we get birdies and bloody spiders.
OOps too much rum, wrong site lol.
I think RC would win in the best Science Fiction category Blog if there was one
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Ah aint nobody’s stinkin’ cheeleader
jeez aka charles the moderator
(go anthony!)
stephen richards : the UAH graph shows a down-tick but the label is+0.18. Am I missing something? e.g. brains?
Thanks
Jack