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.
Tried to vote last night with a private domain based address, still awaiting confirmation email….
Me and my girlfriend have voted for Real Climate . . .
Oh No, that isn’t right *grin* . .
Well done Anthony this is a great site and a service to all who want to add to Watt they know ( geddit ).
Anthony: Congrats for being a finalist! I have voted for you-know-who and am awaiting confirmation.
Funny that RC didn’t make the cut!
Voted. Best of luck Anthony. This site is one of my daily visits.
Pleased you made the final, Anthony, and here’s wishing you well for a brilliant result.
My vote is in and I’m sure all your regular followers will be up for it too – only takes a couple of minutes to cast your vote!
I voted yesterday and again today.
Yet to receive confirmation … still waiting.
Mark says:
February 6, 2011 at 12:50 pm
“Well you got my vote hands down”
And I thought you normally put your hands up to be counted! 🙂
Voted
Verified
Vindicated
Victorious!
Vote was registered by Nikolai Nolan after querying whether to revote.
Very helpful webmaster.
If free people allow this CO2 fraud, they will have by choice fenced themselves onto the grand socialist reservation.
We Apache and many other tribe members can advise you clear, reservations are not a good thing except for a few chiefs and their enablers. Much like Washington D.C. .
Despite the proliferation of sites/categories only WUWT was worthy of a vote IMHO.
If Huffington is worth $300+Million then WUWT is way above that figure!
Good luck Anthony!
RC didn’t make the cut because it isn’t a science blog. They routinely censors any postings that don’t fit their belief system.
RC operates more like the Moonies, though perhaps that is an insult to the Moonies. They will try and convert you, and if you are converted you are welcome. If not, you will be censored. This limits debate until it takes on religious aspects.
With regard to cursor keys. When filing in forms you should make your selection or fill in what you want and then click on non active region of the page. This will release you from the input mode. Use the cursor keys to scroll down to the next section and click within the input box and enter any details needed.
This is true of many entry forms. You must escape the input mode before scrolling using the arrow keys.
When you think you are finished click on non active zone and look over what you have done. If all looks good send
Ok, I’ve had another go and this time I got the verification email and clicked the link and it worked.
I’ve also got all my five kids to vote for WUWT as well and, as Anthony asked I’ve put up a thread on Digging in The Clay to publise the fact that WUWT has been nominated and to encourage visitors to DITC to vote for WUWT.
http://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com/
Done and verified. Best of luck.
Excellent job Anthony! As stated by many above let me echo: You deserve to win. Thank you and keep up the good work.
Voted and verified.
Been and voted – I dodn’t recognise any of the other sites on there – but then I am not much of a surfer dude!
Good luck – and well deserved for being a finalist in any event.
I am unable to enter the words of the captcha on that site. I click in the field and my cursor disappears and I’m unable to type anything there.
Protip: If for some reason, like me, your cursor disappears in the field to enter the captcha, hold your mouse button down with the cursor there. you can then type the words in…. more nonobvious, non-standard HTML BS.
Voted and verified! Good luck!!!!
Well nothing is more infuriating or frustrating, than instructions that are like a Japanese Transistor Radio Manual.
So I went to the science blog page, and there was a place for my e-mail, which I enetered and thena panel for what question I wanted to ask which was nothing; I simply wanted to vote. So i scroleld all the way to the bottom, and found nothing there.
In particular I did not find ANY blog logos, which had little round tags to click on; mine all had little square tags; and I clicked on the one for my candidate; and absolutely nothing happened; no check mark came up in the little round box which wasn’t there, nor in the square box that was there. Finally my cursor drifted over and highlighted the name of the blog, so I clicked on that.
I then scroleld down to the bottom, and found th scribbly letters and another place for my e-mail. I tried to type in my e-mail but it wouldn’t enter anything. Then I tried to type the scribbles but there was somelthign that could be either ul or wl run together, and I entered ul. It wouldn’t let me type in my e-mail. So I clicked on the recirculate button and it changed the scribbles; but now it wouldn’t let me type in either box.
So nuts to whoever designed that thing; like I say; Japanese Transistor Radio Manuals are far more intelligent.
Done
Good luck with that
Anthony,
I’ve now visited the ‘competition’ and IMO it’s two horse race between WUWT and Wired Science which but for it’s mis-understanding of climate change skeptics and the role of your blog, is actually a very good general science blog. Sadly one of the other ‘competitors’ has decided to label viistors to your blog ‘climate deniers’ so I’ve put a comment on his blog that he will hopefully read
“David,
I’m one of your new visitors courtesy of your ’2011 Bloggies’ nomination.
I have a sincere request. Please don’t use the term ‘denier’ when referring to people like myself who question the claimed ‘settled science’ on man-caused climate change, in particular the claim that if mankind does not immediately constrain/control mankind’s use of fossil fuels within the next few decades that we will reach a climatic ‘tipping point’ that leads to catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW).
Skeptics (so called ‘climate change deniers’) and more precisely CAGW skeptics like myself most definitely do not deny ‘climate change’. Far from it – in fact it is those who deny the existence of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) who are IMO the real ‘climate change deniers’. Climate change has always and will always as our climate has never been nor ever will be in equilibrium. I’ve a degree level educated ex-nuclear physicist so I’m never going to ‘deny’ the reality of greenhouse gas radiative physics. What I object to is the hyping and warping/extrapolation of this well understood and acknowledged (settled bit of science if you like) branch of physics into a global ‘we must save the planet’ catastrophy issue via the use of global climate model ‘projections’ that assume with NO actual verifiable evidence that water vapour is a strong net positive feedback to CO2′s so called forcing. Somehow or other skeptical scientists like myself are supposed to accept that an odourless, tasteless, gas (that is essential to continued existence of all life on our planet) that is present in our atmosphere at a concentration less than 400 PARTS PER MILLION determines whether or not our planet warms or cools rapidly?
Well I’m sorry but call me a ‘denier’ if you have to, but I’m going to need a lot more evidence than computer model projections before I’ll be convinced that mankind’s CO2 emissions are having a significant effect on our climate.”
http://davidpj.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-11th-annual-weblog-awards/#comment-1477
It quiet sad really as in this thread at the top he links to his/your fellow nominees but deliberately doesn’t link to WUWT. Why not?
I received no verification yesterday , so voted again today . The verification came almost immediately , but the link didn’t work . I typed the URL into my browser and I got the web site . Is that all there is to it ? I saw no link to the bloggies per se .
voted and best of luck anthony
Another confirmed vote for WUWT. No hesitation.