TW:MDL&T News is now ready to call the Best Culture Blog category in the 2006 Weblog Awards - and it ain't TW:MDL&T. As of now, I'm in fourth place among 10 nominees and it looks like USA Today's bright PopCandy blog will take it. But I'm not ready to concede just yet. There are still votes to be counted in some of the outlying TW:MDL&T-friendly districts. There are, what, seven days to go and yes, you can vote once per day folks. Thanks to the RHTW in the midlands for supporting his American cousin. Hope you all will too. Meanwhile, I thought I'd share my own slate and urge you to give these folks your valuable votes:
- In the Best Blog category, I'm splitting my ticket between DailyKos and HuffPo (where I post on occasion). Both are huge, and like the Met or the Smithsonian, simply can't be consumed in a single visit.
- Best Individual Blog goes to Linday Beyerstein's restless and wide-ranging Majikthise, and she's making a race of it against the likes of Andrew Sullivan.
- Jon Swift gets my nod for Best Humor Blog; worthy of its namesake, it regularly takes in the sucker.
- Online Community: Kos, no question.
- Best Liberal Blog should belong to Shakespeare's Sister, where language slays the oppressor.
- Who else is there for Best Centrist Blog except for Joe Gandelman's must-read The Moderate Voice? They should retire the award if Joe doesn't win.
- Then there's Best Media Blog. Easy. James Wolcott. A thousand times so.
- Oh, and I almost missed this one - Feministe is going all the way in the Top 250 category. Go team.
There are many, many other excellent blogs up for nomination and I'm enjoying finding new writers. Then too, there are tons of my regular reads not nominated. So who knows. Did I mention you can vote daily?
