I was very surprised to learn today (almost a week later) that WUWT has been nominated for Best Science Blog in the 2011 Bloggies. This is like the Superbowl for bloggers. This nomination was done by a blind vote of some 200 people that got nomination ballots. I’m up there with HuffPo, Wired and many others in this award contest. Who isn’t on it is equally interesting. Please read on for info on how to cast your votes for WUWT and other bloggers.
Here’s the timeline and where to vote:
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This weblog award is a little different than the previous one seen on the sidebar (which closed last year because the organizers couldn’t get the system working right)…recall the Climate Audit/Bad Astronomy horserace from 2007 that continued to get votes after the ballots closed, requiring a tie to be called. In 2008 (voting in 2009) WUWT won, but there were other problems. So they closed shop in 2010.
Voting in this contest requires you to give an email address and complete a captcha, so it may be less prone to ballot stuffing.
The voting method is not obvious at first glance, so I’ve summarized it visually for everyone below:
1. Visit http://2011.bloggi.es/ for the main voting page,
or go direct to the Science category with this link: http://2011.bloggi.es/#science
2. Locate the Science category thumbnails:
3. If you want to vote for WUWT, click on the little grey circle in the lower right, and it turns into a checkbox and greys out the other thumbnails. Note the contest rotates the thumbnails for fairness in placement, so it may not look like the image order above.
4. Scroll up/down. Vote for any other blogs you like in any other categories the same way. You don’t have to vote for other blogs, as the system doesn’t require it, but please do. These other bloggers work very hard to deliver a quality product. Reward them if you feel they deserve it.
5. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page: (note – don’t use cursor keys, it will change your vote!)
6. Complete the captcha by typing the words displayed in your browser (not the ones above), put in a VALID email address. Press the yellow SUBMIT button. Note- you won’t get spammed by doing so. See the fine print under the email box.
7. Wait for an email in your inbox. That email contains a link to verify your vote. If you don’t get it within a half hour, check your spam filter.
8. Click on the link in your email to verify your vote. It will take you to the verification page on the website and you’ll get a success message.
9. Spread the word! Twitter, Facebook, mailing lists, friends, comments on other blogs, and most importantly, if you run a blog, I’d welcome a posting on this topic.
You know that some others who dislike what we do here will try to create anti-vote campaigns as they have done in the past. Success depends on whether there are more people who view WUWT as a science resource versus those that simply want to haul out the hate, and slap on the “denier” label.
10. Remember, while winning is fun, as I tried to teach my son in the recent pinewood derby we did, the way you play the game is just as important. Don’t cheat. Don’t encourage cheating, and simply let the chips fall where they may.
It’s an honor just to be nominated, especially when some other prominent blogs in our circle of influence were not.
Thanks for your consideration – Anthony
UPDATE: Ah, well, what can I say? The childish hatehate has already started over at BoingBoing in comments.
I’ve voted. Hope you get the award.
I do have to put in another request, however. I noticed that Hyperbole and a Half is also up for awards in several categories. I discovered this incredibly wonderful and hilarious cartooning/blog/whatever about six months ago and am a total addict. This is so far above the average “humour” blog as to be in its own category. The fact that she regularly gets over a thousand comments per post should be an indication of her unique standing.
Please look in on her site. If you do, I doubt you’ll have any problem casting some votes her way. She’s in several categories, so scroll down.
You won’t regret it.
PS: I have no affiliation with her. I couldn’t even tell you her name (although I’m sure it’s there somewhere). I just have a love of truly great humour. And there’s far too little of it, especially among humour bloggers.
As they say/write on ZeroHedge when they like something:
+10
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Voted for WUWT. Anthony, keep up the good work.
stephan says:
February 6, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Jantar says:
February 6, 2011 at 7:15 pm
I had no trouble using Firefox running on XP. I do know that sometimes Firefox doesn’t work on some sites, but seldom these days, then you have to use IE but that wasn’t the case here. Indeed I have had problems with Firefox in the past but I can’t really remember when: certainly not in the last couple of years.
I agree the words were hard to read, perhaps intentionally so. Certainly had me cross eyed for a minute or two trying to work out whether the curly script letter in my one was a g or an s. I got it right though.
Otherwise my email verification arrived in a few minutes and I cleared it at once.
So all done and dusted as we say in these parts.
Kindest Regards
P Walker says:
February 6, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Voted , but not verified yet . Why do they make the words you need to type in so hard to read .
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There is a refresh to the right of the letters that will give you a new set.
And to all those lackies saying this is the “best” science site……..it is the Uber-Best.
I learn something worthwhile everytime I link to this site.
We’re all FROZEN!
Done and verified.
_Jim says: Wrote
February 6, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Michael February 6, 2011 at 6:49 pm
“As they say/write on ZeroHedge when they like something:
+10”
Thanks Jim.
I have found through cross bloging, your message is amplified by a factor of ten.
Jim,
When I say certain things in blogs, I sometimes hear the same exact things I said repeated on Glenn Beck and Alex Jones as well as MSM programs the following days and weeks. Expect to hear “Police State Bowl” repeated in the MSM in the coming days.
Done
Good luck – but you don’t need luck – yours IS the best site – by dint of good hard work by yourself, the mods AND all the guest writers.
Cheers
Douglas
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Congratulations on making it to the short list.
We’re all FROZEN! Voted and verified, kinda. Reminded me of a Diebold voting machine when I went to the big city.
I much prefer my own blog but there doesn’t seem to be a category for machinist blogs 🙂
I’ll consider voting for yours though its a toss-up with that other deep science blog, Women in Planetary Science, my wife being from Venus.
Robertson’s is a non-starter as he’s clearly incurious and appears to lack a true scientific skepticism. Boing Boing is reminiscent of Bill Nye the Boeing guy turn hamature scientist, and Wired is to blogs as SlashDot is to ordered thought. All over the map.
Dan_D, I’ve got Linux 2.6.27.7 with KDE and had to shift from Opera-63 to Firefox in order to see any selections. I have Flash and Java enabled.
The vote is in for WUWT.
Anthony, you’re like the Green Bay Packers – you are the best blog, the world champion, and you and your group will richly deserve the award I predict you will receive. Thanks for your fine work.
Go WUWT! Go Packers! (Should be obvious I’m a Packer fan, isn’t it?)
Have voted. Glad to do so Anthony. Looking forward to Feb 27!
voted for you, but the awards seem very skewed. A whole section devoted to one particular sin, a religion category with no Christian sites, only various neo-pagan and atheist sites, the political blogs were all left-wing, etc.
This site is great. The bloggies, not so much.
Another vote for WUWT!
Done – and thank you very much for a great site
never got verification. checked spam and trash and all the rest.
Another, verified, vote for WUWT.
Voted. A nomination and even a win is nothing less than you deserve Anthony. Your writings and those of your regular contributors have taught me an awful lot.
anthony, why isn’t this WUWT, which is a non-partisan website?
7 Feb: Adage: AOL Bets $315 Million on Arianna, Buys Huffington Post to Build ‘New American Media Company’
The Huffington Post is privately owned by editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington and chairman Ken Lerer, who founded the site in 2005 with $2 million in seed capital and subsequently raised $35 million in venture funding from Greycroft Partners, Softbank Capital and Oak Investment, as well as from former AOL chief operating officer Bob Pittman. AOL will pay for $300 million of the purchase price in cash.
Last year the Huffington Post, which draws 24 million readers and generates around 500 million page views every month, according to ComScore, brought in $31 million in ad revenue, or a little more than $1 per user per year…
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=148725
don’t see how they compute the “a little more than $1 per user per year” as the article also says:
“going from 4.5 million monthly readers in 2008 to around 24 million every month this past year, coming close to The New York Times’ monthly online audience of 30 million, but the Times’ numbers may drop once it institutes its paywall later this month..”
another partisan media outlet – just what we need.
You got my vote, but I was surprised that “The Bore Hole” at RC was not nominated/ sarc