WUWT nominated in two categories. The competition this year is more skeptical than ever!
This year, the choices are tougher, since there are so many favorites. Last year I thought it was tough because they threw big names in websites into the category (like Mashable, Gizmodo, Engadget, and Tech Crunch) while at the same time combined the separate Science and Technology categories into one new single category.
This year the category strategy seems to be “divide and conquer”.
You may recall that last year there was a clean sweep of the awards by truly skeptical blogs, and the big names were shut out. WUWT also won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
I know this is a tough choice, but if WUWT wins the science category this year, it will make three, and we won’t be eligible to win the award ever again. Success has its drawbacks I suppose. Of course WUWT can only win with your help, here’s how:
1. Visit http://2013.bloggi.es/ for the main voting page,
2. Locate the category thumbnails for the categories you want to vote on (you need to vote at least three categories to submit a vote). Here’s what the Sci-Tech Category looks like:
3. If you want to vote for WUWT (or any of the blog categories), click on the little grey circle in the lower right of the icon, 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.
Likewise WUWT is also in the Category for Weblog of the Year:
If we win that category, there is a monetary prize involved, as they say: “Weblog of the Year receives a prize of 2,013 US cents (US$20.13)”. Wow. That is like 2013 times more money than I get from “big oil”!
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 all other blog categories, as the system doesn’t require it, but please check out other categories. These other bloggers work very hard to deliver a quality product. Reward them if you feel they deserve it.
Here are some notable categories where climate related blogs have also made an appearance this year: For Australian category, Australian Climate Madness is a hands down no-brainer for me.
The investigative work Simon has done has been outstanding.
For Best Canadian Blog, Small Dead Animals is an easy choice. Kate makes me (and thousands of other people) laugh with her one line demolitions:
The politics category is tougher, I’ll admit to liking all of them (Occupy Wall Street excepted, which is more of a manifesto than a blog). American Thinker goes in-depth on political issues, and sometimes covers climate, The GWPF goes even more in-depth, and is specific to climate, and James Delingpole is a fantastically entertaining vivisectionist of all things political, green, climatic and stupid. I’ll admit to having Delingpole as a personal favorite, but YMMV.
In the Humorous category XKCD, hands down, though again for the second year too bad Josh isn’t there.
Make your choices by clicking on the little grey circles.
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. Mine went straight to spam, so you should check if you don’t see it.
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 some that simply want to haul out the hate, and slap on the “denier” label, and edit user comments post facto so they can win the argument with nobody looking (they think).
10. Remember, while winning is fun, 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. May the best weblogs win.
P Gosselin says:
February 26, 2013 at 1:44 am
Only one warmist site. That means the skeptic vote will be divided – rigged!
Being a suspicious sod, that was my first thought too.
I voted for WUWT as best science blog in previous years, but I’m sorry to say that the recent conversion to the Willis-Memoirs blog has meant I cannot do the same this year.
As I’ve said before, I don’t object to Willis’s posts, but think they are simply on the wrong blog. Why does he not run his own?
I sincerely hope that WUWT will return to it’s former focus.
Has my recent post regarding the conversion from science-blog to Willis-memoirs-blog really been “disappeared”?
I’ve read elsewhere on warmist sites that posts on WUWT can silently disappear, but I didn’t believe it. I guess I’ll soon know if it’s true.
Submitted vote. Other than WUWT I only recognized the name of one other blog in the entire list.
Done the deed. A winning by WUWT is just one of the few ways to express our skepticism from CAGW’s 21st century temperature projections.
voted, verified, good luck.
$20.13 should be enough to nicely frame the penny you got from Big Oil. Did you find it on the ground at an Mobil station?
steveta_uk says:
February 26, 2013 at 4:03 am
There’s sufficient evidence that WordPress manages to lose some comments that would offend no one, not even the WP filter.
When you submitted that comment, did you see it immediately, marked with something like “waiting for moderation” or was it gone at that point? I think that means it’s been shunted off to the word-starting-with-S holding pen.
Stacked deck. Three actually sceptical sites to split the vote vs one misnamed non-sceptical site.
OK, I’m re-assured. My original post was “waiting for moderation” for a while, then disappeared completely. That’s when I wrote the follow up. Shortly after, it re-appeared, still “waiting for moderation”, although my later post was not tagged as waiting, so it overtook it somehow.
Now both appear in the original order. So that’s all good. Thanks Ric.
Votes cast, votes verified. You’re right to comment on it being a tough choice, I hated having to vote against three excellent science blogs to vote for a fourth. OTOH, it was nice to be able to give a vote to xkcd, one of the few places on t’net which has reduced me on numerous occasions to helpless tears of laughter. And this year I discovered the Norse Mythology blog!
I also note that the page refused to give me a captcha (or a vote!) on my usual browser, even with all the blockers seemingly turned off. Had to fire up the Tor Browser and scrub down with disinfectant after voting – thank Heaven for “ccleaner”!
Done. I wish Climate Audit and WUWT were in different categories as I would have liked to have voted for both.
Entered and verified. Good luck to all.
Done and dusted.
SAMURAI says (February 25, 2013 at 5:28 pm)
BTW, I’d suggest buying 1/2oz of silver with your winnings. At least in couple of years or so, you’ll have doubled your money…
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I took that advice two years ago. Er, didn’t quite work out.
Perhaps Anthony should invest the $20.13 in carbon credits? They’re bound to go up. Lol.
steveta_uk says:
February 26, 2013 at 4:03 am
Ric Werme says:
February 26, 2013 at 5:18 am
“When you submitted that comment, did you see it immediately, marked with something like “waiting for moderation, or was it gone”. . . ”
Such things happen and are baffling. It is best to project one’s feeling of paranoia on a deus ex machina and not an innocent and honorable moderator or site host. Anyone that has done even a small bit of software programming knows that everyone else’s code is flakey.
Done – Good luck
I spread the word! Best of luck!
Done. Good Luck to WUWT. It was my great pleasure to be the one who informed Charles of the WUWT win in the lifetime acheivement award last year. May I have the chance to inform him of more success. I probably visit WUWT more then any other blog.
Didn’t get a confirmation email from Monday afternoon’s vote.
What is the name of the email and/or the group? Did a search for Weblog and Bloggies and didn’t find anything yet.
It says contact them if you don’t get an email. What email address should be used?
Thank you.
Mango, James and Ric made my point for me. Mind you, Big Oil should pay better…
@Ben Klijn it is do_not_reply@bloggi.es
KevinM says:
February 26, 2013 at 6:03 am
Stacked deck. Three actually sceptical sites to split the vote vs one misnamed non-sceptical site.
Why would tha tbe, though? Perhaops it could have something to do with the fact that Anthony encouraged us all to go and nominate all our favourite skeptic blogs back in January (or was it December?). Surprised that SS was in the science category, though … I nominated them for religion (or was it humour) – as I am sure did many others.
I voted my conscious. ;-D
Unfortunate about Jo Nova. Glad to see Cake Wrecks and Oatmeal get recognition too! And Dellers the man.
James Delingpole writes at his blog:
“Blimey, I’m up for a prize – my first ever Bloggie award nomination. I’d be so pleased if I won because, unlike most journalistic awards, the Bloggies aren’t decided by a cabal of pinkos and unimaginative, career-safe lametards from the decaying, dead-tree establishment but by the only people who really matter – you the readers.
See that subtle, sucking-up thing I did there? But I also happen to mean it. Without your vote I don’t win a prize. Without your readership and support I’d just be another of those desperate saddoes like the trolls who haunt this blog in order to try to leech off some traffic for their own pitifully dull, billy-no-mates online musings.
So that’s something else to consider: when you vote for me, you’re not merely voting for the cause of all that is righteous and true – but you’re also doing the equivalent of taking away a troll’s online donkey porn account: and you know how miserable and bereft that would make them feel, right?”
I know Dellers is a polemicist but I love his language, his attitudes, and his willingness to shine a light on the madness of climate policy among other things. British English in common use retains many words and phrases that American English has lost. Dellers does a great job of witnessing to the outrages perpetrated on the common man by the ruling class and the EU.
Done!