Of the five finalists in the People's Choice category of the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards, only three can take 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, and it is up to you, the voting public, to decide their fates.
Voting in this category runs between December 21st and December 28th, and in that time you will be allowed only one vote, so choose wisely.
Let the voting begin!
Labels: People's Choice
The 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards are currently in the second and final jury stage. Our 49 jurors are tabulating scores for
the top five finalists in each category according to
our ten criteria – with an extra 0, 1, or 2 points awarded for Category Fit – so that we can arrive at 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places. I am slowly entering the final scores on my very important spreadsheet as they arrive. We are working out kinks, jurors are helping me out with ideas for the coming year, and the excitement levels are rising.
I AM SO EXCITED.
Once all of the scores are in over the next day or two, I am going to be crazy with keeping the results secret until New Years at midnight EST. I am totally going to be that nerd with her finger hovering over the enter key that night, just itching to let the world know just five minutes early.
The other thing that excites me? VOTING IN THE FINAL ROUND FOR THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE CATEGORY BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT. I will put the poll up at midnight
Saskatchewan time tonight so that you can all start voting for your favourite of
the top five. And, again, I will be that nerd with her finger hovering over the enter key tonight, just itching to start the poll five minutes early.
See you back here later!
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It has been one week since
the announcement of the top five finalists in each of the 37 categories in the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards, and I am here to tell you that the response has been tremendous. It's a thrill to see so many good weblogs receive at least some of the attention they deserve for the hard work their respective bloggers put into them.
I just finished dividing up the 37 categories and their five finalists each among 49 jurors across two languages, and, let me tell you, I feel like I have scaled K2 and come back to tell about it.
But, you know what this means, don't you? We are officially in the second and final round of jurying. Our jurors are hard at work reading, watching, analyzing, and tallying to work out the top three weblogs in each category so that we can announce the best of the best on January 1st. The top three in each category will be announced at the stroke of New Years' midnight EST.
Who is going to be out celebrating the New Year and the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards announcement? If you are, I would love it if you would keep me updated about the festivities. On the evening of December 31st/early morning of January 1st, send me photos, video, links, etc. for me to post here. That way, in lieu of a single location recognition of the awards, we can have a cross-Canada celebration from coast to coast.
What do you think? If you have any ideas about how to best go about this, shoot me an e-mail. Let's give Canadian blogging its due!
UPDATE: The People's Choice category, our sole category up for public vote, will have its poll open between December 21st and December 28th.
Labels: CWA business, outreach
The 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards' 49 jurors handed in all of their scores for the 457 nominated weblogs by November 21st, and since then I have spent my time tabulating the outcomes and compiling lists and wiggling with anticipation.
It's true. I wiggle with anticipation. I'm six.
I added up the last of the numbers and compiled the last of the lists last night, and it is like Christmas exploded in my brain. I know that
the timeline laid out for the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards dictates that the top five finalists in each category be announced on December 1st, but I am just too excited to wait that whole extra several hours. I just can't hold it inside any longer, so I am going to commit sacrilege and tell you who the finalists are right now.
If you want to share the news, hit that retweet button up there under the title or that share link at the bottom of this post and spread the news of Canadian blogging excellence!
The top five finalists in each of the 37 categories in the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards are as follows, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places in each category will be determined by jury over the month of December and will be announced on January 1, 2011. Stay tuned!
UPDATE: The People's Choice category will be up for public vote again in the final round, and the poll will be available for voting between December 21 and 28.
Art & Photography
Art et photographie
Winnipeg: Love and Hate
Marc Johns
PixelatedImage Blog
tonyfoto/drool
Obsessions Gourmandes
Arts & Culture
Arts et culture
FYIMusic.ca
tonyfoto/drool
Yellowknife Online
Patti Friday
The Ampersand
Best Designed
Meilleur design
Everybody Likes Sandwiches
Hi, I'm Sadie Shih Tzu
Tanveer Naseer
Wish Jar
This Bird's Day
Best New Weblog (for weblogs created after July 31, 2009)
Meilleur nouveau blogue (blogues créés après le 31 juillet 2009)
Erica Glasier: Oversocialized!
Simple Bites
Ironic Mom
Life As A Human
Porcupine Slug
Best Written
Meilleurs textes
XUP
Spin Me I Pulsate
sweet | salty
Cheaty Monkey
Where There's a Willer
Business & Career
Affaires et carrières
Squawkfox
The JASM Blog
IttyBiz
Tanveer Naseer
Techvibes.com
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Bande dessinée
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Everyday People
A Softer World
Weregeek
The Crafty Life
Crafting
Artisanat
Yarn Harlot
Half Soled Boots
Imagination in Parenting
The Crafty Life
Craftastrophe
Ecology & Social Justice
Écologie et justice sociale
Facing Autism in New Brunswick
Rolling Around in My Head
My Green Conscience
The Mindful Merchant
Cops and Donuts
Ex-Pat
Expatriés
Christine Scott Cheng
The Blog Fodder
Sudobeer
MadameHeringer.com
Muddy Boots
Family & Parenting
Famille et enfants
XUP
What it's like to have kids, and raise them abroad
Spin Me I Pulsate
sweet | salty
Coffee with Julie
Fashion & Style
Mode et style
Relishing.ca
Fashionable People, Questionable Things
Sogni e Sorrisi
Sometimes Icing
À la mode Montréal
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Féminisme
Cleavage
Screw Bronze!
Gender Focus
PhD in Parenting
Womanist Musings
Food & Drink
Cuisine et breuvages
Within the Kitchen
Bu sur le web
Gourmet Fury
Simple Bites
Everybody Likes Sandwiches
French Language
En français
2Capricieux
Tarzile.com
La Popoteuse
Banlieusardises
Prétextes.ca
Gardening
Jardinage
Balcony Gardener
The Kitchen Magpie
Greens & Berries
Gardening with Latitude
Bloomingwriter
Group Weblog
Blogue collectif
Apartment613
Life As A Human
Fashionable People, Questionable Things
Kids In the Capital
the Commons
Health & Wellness (includes physical and mental health and disabilities)
Santé et bien-être (incluant santé physique, mentale et handicaps)
La vie avec mon père
Fickle Feline
Rolling Around in My Head
Graceful Agony
Facing Autism in New Brunswick
Humour
Humour
@sween on Twitter
Sometimes Icing
Embrace the Chaos
Postcards from the Mothership
Readily A Parent
LGBTQ
GLBTQ
We Move to Canada
Screw Bronze!
Dead Robot
Gender Focus
Sticky Crows
Life
Mode de vie
XUP
Spin Me I Pulsate
Coffee with Julie
Cheaty Monkey
sweet | salty
Lifetime Achievement (for weblogs created before January 1, 2005)
Prix d'excellence pour l'ensemble de son œuvre (blogues créés avant le 1er janvier 2005)
Wish Jar
JordonCooper.com
Sudobeer
A Peek Inside the Fishbowl
Raymi the Minx
Media & Journalism
Médias et journalisme
Pushed to the Left and Loving It
MadameHeringer.com
Fagstein
Canadian Freelance Writing Jobs
Canadian Animation Resources
Microblog (Twitter, Tumblr, Identi.ca, Jaiku, Posterous, etc.)
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@sween (Twitter)
@mathewi (Twitter)
Cook Clean (Tumblr)
@simonaioffe (Twitter)
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Armée
Celebrating Phil Tripe
Cops and Donuts
A Military Wife's Mayhem
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Musique
FYIMusic.ca
I Was Young When I Left Home
The Incubator
i(heart)music
Viper Pilot
People's Choice (open to public vote from December 1-31, 2010)
Prix du public (ouvert au public du 1er au 31 décembre 2010)
Raymi the Minx
Alice in Paris Loves Art and Tea
Her Bad Mother
Peek Thru Our Window...
Quintessential Ramblings of the St. Godard Brood Keeper
Placeblog (contains local political/social/arts/community articles about a place)
Placeblogue (contenant des articles sur la politique/vie sociale/arts/communauté dans une localité)
Apartment613
Hello Ottawa
Kitsilano.ca
WestSideAction
Greater Ottawa
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Podcast et vlog
Le Patrouilleur du Net
Sound On Sight
Eat Your Kimchi
White Coat, Black Art
The 49th Parallel
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Politique
Stephen Taylor
Eye On a Crazy Planet
Christine Scott Cheng
Stageleft
We Move to Canada
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Sound On Sight
FYIMusic.ca
Fashionable People, Questionable Things
Sogni e Sorrisi
The Ampersand
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Sunny Side Up Weekly
Whatever He Says
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JordonCooper.com
Full Contact Enlightenment
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HabsAddict.com
Obesity Panacea
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Gourmet Fury
What it's like to have kids, and raise them abroad
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Taxi-brousse
Have Baby Will Travel
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THE Blog
Fortrel.net
threequartersleeve
PhotoDiction
Francine Minville – auteure
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The polls have officially closed and voting has ended for the People's Choice category of the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards.
I am busy tabulating the jurors' scores for the 458 weblogs nominated across all 37 categories, and I will announce the five finalists that will move into the final round in each category on December 1st. See you then!
Labels: CWA business
There are 37 categories in the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards, and 36 of those categories are judged by an impartial jury using our set of
10 criteria, but one category is reserved for the popular vote: the People Choice category.
The weblogs nominated in the People's Choice category that range the spectrum weblogs in the Canadian Weblog Awards, and it is up to you to help decide which weblogs are truly the people's top five favourites to compete for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the second round of voting during the last week of December.
Please use all five of the following polls to vote between November 21 and November 28, 2010. You can only vote once in each poll during the coming week, and all voters, whether they are Canadian citizens are not, are welcome to participate. The five finalists with the most votes will be announced on December 1st.
UPDATE: The reason there are five separate voting polls is that the best site I could find to run the polls only allowed one vote per poll, which meant that each voter would only have been able to vote for one weblog if all the nominees were in the same poll. I chose to split the weblogs into 5 separate polls in order to provide people with at least the opportunity to vote for more than one weblog. I understand that being able to rank your favourites in one poll would have been optimal, and that is something I will work on for next year's awards.
Labels: People's Choice
Ooph.
That's how I feel at the moment. It is now the wee hours of the morning, and I have just finished distributing 457 weblog nominations over 50 jurors and compiling the accompanying information packet for the first of two rounds of judging in the inaugural year of the Canadian Weblog Awards. My eyes look like swollen cherry tomatoes. My left wrist is threatening mutiny.
And I feel divine.
I am so proud of the Canadian blogging community, and I want to share with you the brief letter of thanks I sent to our esteemed panel of jurors:
First, I have to start off with a huge heaping thank you to all of you for volunteering your time and talents to be jury members in this inaugural 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards.
I was lying in bed on my birthday late last December, thinking about how I had been blogging for nearly seven years and had attended and spoken at blogging conferences in the United States, and I realized that I was more familiar with American weblogs than I was with those by my fellow Canadians. I wanted to find a way for Canadian bloggers not only to find each other on the internet but also to celebrate each other and show off the height of our talents. What better way to find the best among us than by public nominations and a juried competition, a year-long celebration of Canada’s highest quality weblogs in both design and content?
And then, like the crazy person that I am, I drew up an awards timeline, a set of criteria, a FAQ, 37 categories, and buttons and badges and an entire website to cement the whole shebang.
Needless to say, I am passionate not only about blogging but blogging done well, and I am SO VERY EXCITED to see this first year of the awards moving into the first stage of judging. If I could, meaning if these awards didn’t have a sum total budget of zero dollars, I would invite you all to a big This Will Be The Most Excellent Weblog Awards Season Ever dinner with seven courses and acrobatic entertainment. As it stands, though, I cannot, so you will have to settle for my extreme gratitude. Without all of you, these awards could not happen. You make this all possible, and I am honoured that you are here to support this vision.
Thank you.
And that gratitude extends to you, too: to all of you who read and/or write Canadian weblogs, to all of you who nominated weblogs over the course of the year, and to all of you who have offered your time and expertise to the awards.
Thank you.
And now it is time for me to drag myself to bed. I wish the 2010 Canadian Weblog Award jurors all the best in the coming two weeks as they read, look, and examine Canada's finest.
Goodnight! And happy blogging!
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