Niblet Nominations are now CLOSED.
Enjoy perusing these links over the weekend, and the voting will commence on Monday!
Best big blog:
By Common Consent
Feminist Mormon Housewives
Millennial Star
Mormon Matters
Seriously So Blessed
Times & Seasons
Best group blog:
The Exponent
Faith Promoting Rumor
Juvenile Instructor
Mormon Mentality
Mormon Metaphysics
New Cool Thang
PoliticaLDS
Segullah
Zelophehad’s Daughters
Best solo blog:
Green Mormon Architect
Hieing to Kolob
Keep A Pitchinin
Life on Gold Plates
Mormon Insights
My Religious Blog
Mormon Organon
Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord
Seriously So Blessed
Soy Made Me Gay
Temple Study
Best new blog:
The Apron Stage
Clobberblog
Depressed (But not unhappy) Mormon Mommy
The Faithful Dissident
Irresistible (Dis)Grace
Keep A Pitchinin
LDS Philosopher
Linescratchers
Mormon Heretic
Mormon Insights
My Religious Blog
Red Brick Store
Seriously So Blessed
Soy Made Me Gay
Best blog layout/graphics:
Dave’s Mormon Inquiry (2008 version)
Millennial Star
Mind, Soul, and Body for the striking photo by Anne Geddes, unknowingly copyrighted, which the author does not have the heart to take down from his completely and totally uncommercial blog.
My Religious Blog
Nine Moons
Seriously So Blessed
Temple Study
Best commenter:
AnneGB
Ardis
Blake
Bored in Vernal
Brian Duffin
David H.
DKL
gst
Hawkgrrl
jessawhy
Kevin Barney
Kevinf
Marc Bohn
Margaret Young
Mark IV
Ray
Roasted Tomatoes
Sister Blah 2
Starfoxy
Steve Evans
Tatiana
Thomas Parkin
Most memorable comment:
DKL comment #36
DKL speaking to a troll comment #170 and comment #182
Russell Arben Fox comment #54
Ruth comment #72
Ryan comment #19
Steve Evans comment #994 on “Police Beat Roundtable #10”
Steve Evans comment #23
TStevens comment #18
Best overall blogger:
Andrew Ainsworth
Andrew S.
Ardis Parshall
Bookslinger
Bored in Vernal
Devyn S.
ECS
Hawkgrrl
Julie M. Smith
Kaimi
Kevin Barney
Kiskilili
Lynnette
Margaret Young
Nate Oman
Steve Evans
Steve P.
Tamn
Best humorous post:
Amri Brown’s “Serious Thoughts on the One Exception to the No Facial Hair Rule”
Andrew Ainsworth’s “What Children Know”
BCC’s Police Beat RoundTable #10
Burgess “Not Your Ordinary Grounds Crew Poetry”
Burgess “Yeah, I’m that Poet You Kind of Remember”
Burgess “Let the Men wear Sideburns!”
Caroline “Ways NOT To Teach About Chastity”
David’s “If God Were A Woman”
Eric Nielsen’s series on the Secret Life of Earl Johnson
jamesbarjoseph’s “Nothing Wavering”
Julie M. Smith’s “What the Smith Boys Said This Year”
Kiskilili’s “The Legend of Patriarch Hollow”
Mattsby’s “General Conference LOLcats ”
M*’s April Fool’s Day pages spoofing FMH.
Tamn’s “The Down-There Doc”
ZD April Fools — “Renouncing the Philosophies of Women Mingled with Scripture”
ZD Sunstone Program Parody
Rebecca J’s
Best Historical post:
Ardis Parshall’s 3 part “Codes and Cyphers in Mormon History” (also nominated “The Childless Ones,” “A Utah War Primer,”
“Polynesians in the Desert.”)
Bored in Vernal “Populating Worlds: Joseph Smith’s Legacy”
Bored in Vernal’s “A Mormon History Mystery”
Christopher’s useful and important thoughts on Mormonism’s place in American historiography
David’s “Teaching About Racism (Including the Priesthood Ban) in Sacrament Meeting”
Dichotomy’s “LDS Gay History Timeline”
edje’s series of posts on the Galveston Hurricane of 1900
EmilyCC “Feminist Genealogy”
Heidi Harris “The New Woman in Central Utah”
Jared T’s “Millions Shall Know Brother Joseph Again”
John Hamer “Book of Jasher”
Mogget’s modernity and catholicism series
Mormon Heretic’s “Was Priesthood Ban Inspired?”
TT’s “The Terrible 90’s for Mormon Scholarship”
Best spiritual post:
Andrew Ainsworth’s Dark Night of My Soul
Andrew Ainsworth’s “Why I Am Not A Disaffected Mormon”
Andrew Ainsworth’s “What is Heaven? What is Hell”
Ardis “I’ll Let God Keep the Records”
Elizabeth’s “Everything I Need to Know I’m Learning In Divinity School”
Eve’s “To Some it is Given: Knowledge, Doubt, Mercy”
Gay LDS Actor, “God’s Love”
Heidi Harris “And this time there will be no Angel”
John Hamer’s “A Veil Runs Through it”
Kevin Barney’s “Squareboy”
Kristine’s “When Saw We Thee an Awkward Pre-Teen”
Lisa’s “Hollow”
Mraynes “From Mother to Daughter”
Russell Arben Fox’s “Auld Lang Sin”
SMB’s “Spoken Fatherhood: Communion and Community”
Best doctrinal post:
AdamF’s “Never Lead Us Astray. And Dissonance”
Andrew Ainsworth’s “Elder Wirthlin’s Last Message of Love”
Andrew Ainsworth’s “The Ammon Approach”
Joe Spencer’s “Jesus Christ, the Divine Redeemer of the World”
Julie M. Smith “Is There Another Approach”
Kiskilili’s “Fathers are Irreplaceable”
Kiskilili’s “Inconclusive musings on gays in eternity”
LDS Philosophers two conflicting Paradigms series
Lynnette’s “Repentance as a Response”
Lynnette’s “Can Women be Exalted?”
Secco’s “Uzzah Killed for Blind Obedience”
TT’s “The Future of Heavenly Mother”
Best current events post:
Tamn’s “Tamners Goes to Washington”
Bryce’s Wall-e post
Jared T. “Summary of the 30th Anniversary Priesthood Commemoration held June 8, 2008 at the Tabernacle”
Jupiter’s Child’s “BYU Religion Dean on Premortal Life”
Matt B.’s incisive piece of social analysis about Utah and the greatest sport on earth
Best Prop 8/SSM post:
BCC’s Police Beat RoundTable
Caroline’s “What I would Say to my Bishop About Prop 8”
Clint Martin’s “How to Support a Same Sex Marriage Ban without Coming off as a Tool”
Clint Martin’s “My Secret Gay Agenda”
Julie M. Smith’s “Blood on the Doorposts”
Kaimi’s “Answers”
Ray’s “When Moral Issues Become Political Issues”
TT’s “Children and SSM: An Analysis of the Divine Institution of Marriage”
Best Mitt Romney Post
Andrew S’s “Why Mitt Romney got Romney’d in the Election”
Blake’s “Prop 8 Comment”
Bruce Webster’s “Mitt Romney’s New Ward”
Ray’s “Proposition 8 and the Presidency: A Week of Reviling”
Scott B’s “Reasons this Mormon is Glad Mitt Quit”
Nicest “Evil Villain”
Aaron Shafavoloff from “Mormon Coffee”
Andrew from “Irresistible (Dis)Grace”
Bridget Jack Meyers from “Clobberblog”
Chanson from “Letters From Abroad”
Christopher Smith from “Mild Mannered Musings”
Todd Wood from “Heart Issues for LDS”
Most blatant example of navel-gazing:
Jana’s picture of her belly-button
J. Max Wilson’s “A Critical Look at LDS Blog Portals, Parts 1-4”
Lynnette’s “Using Human Reason to Think About God”
Ray’s Farewell to the Bloggernacle
Seriously So Blessed
Nominating self for every Niblet Award: Steve Evans
What Mormons Like
Ziff’s Nacle numbers posts
Best contribution to the Bloggernacle in 2008:
Tracy M’s intimate and candid details of her struggle with her husband’s unemployment.
Beginnings New, intelligent and meaningful helps for YW leaders
Today in the Bloggernacle / Bloggernacle Back Bench (Emily Jensen)
The addition of JA Benson at M*
John Hamer’s “The Miraculous Plates of Voree Examined”
DKL’s political coverage
BCC’s Police Beat RoundTable
All the fun and laughs over at Myregisblog
PoliticaLDS
Write-in category:
Most Missed: Mormon Stories
Most bewildering to people with no sense of irony: Seriously So Blessed
Who I wish would blog more often — Ashley Sanders at Project Deseret
Funniest Thread: In the Colonies the Stormtroopers are Starting to Lay Down the Law
Best chronicler of otherwise forgotten Mormon’s from history: Ardis Parshall at Keepapitchinin for her continuing stories of ordinary church members in often difficult circumstances.
Most Useful Blog: LDS Science Review
Best Numbers Crunching: Ziff
Best doctrinal blogger – Joe Spencer @ Feast Upon the Word blog.
Funniest post tile: “For I was an hungered, and ye shot me” (Kris Wright at BCC)
The blog with the most humble bloggers and commentators: M*
Best and most unique contributions to a discussion of presiding: the Three Weird Sisters, With Beards poetry (see comments #64 and #76)
Best Sideblog: By Common Consent
Best sidebar linksters: Marc Bohn and Kent Larsen
Unsung Hero: Doc
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Most Memorable Comment:
Steve Evans #23
Ruth #72
If I thought I had done anything worthwhile in the last year I’d nominate myself for something. I’m not especially humble, but I’ve not been an especially good blogger either.
Readers have nominated multiple posts by Andrew and Lynnette and me and possibly others, putting each of us in competition with ourselves in some categories. Rather than splitting votes among loyal readers, how about letting us choose which we would like to have represent us? If you will consider that, I choose “Codes and Ciphers in Mormon History” in the “Best Historical Post” category and ask that the others be deleted, with thanks to those who nominated them.
arJ.
So glad you didn’t break your promise. (#73)
More self-promotion for best humorous post: M*’s April Fool’s Day pages spoofing FMH.
http://www.millennialstar.org/?s=wormons
Let’s see…to get some underdogs in here…
Best group blog:
New Cool Thang [http://www.newcoolthang.com/]
Mormon Metaphysics [http://www.libertypages.com/cgw/]
Nicest “evil villain”: I second chanson (in case we need secondings)
but I have to also put my own name in the hat: Andrew S.
Best Mitt Romney post: gonna have to put my own name into the hat again: “Why Mitt Romney got Romney’d in the Election” [http://irresistibledisgrace.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/why-mitt-romney-got-romneyd-in-the-election/]
To the Niblet ringmaster: While I’m flattered that DMI (the Typepad site) was nominated under Best Solo Blog, I’d like to withdraw DMI from that category as I have not posted any new material there since about October 2008 (posts after Oct. 2008 are just archived posts from other sites). However, I’m happy to leave it in the “Best Layout/Graphics” category, as I did a major template overhaul to the site a couple of months ago.
OK, Ardis, we can do that, but we’ll have to do it here in the comments, since I don’t know how to track down some of these people. If any of the following would like to choose one of your multiple posts to represent you in the category, thus giving you a better chance for the win, speak now!
*Burgess in the “Best Humorous Post” category
*Bored in Vernal in the “Best Historical Post” category
*Andrew Ainsworth in the “Best Spiritual Post” category
*Andrew Ainsworth in the “Best Doctrinal Post” category
*Lynnette in the “Best Doctrinal Post” category
*Kiskilili in the “Best Doctrinal Post” category
*Clint Martin in the “Best Prop 8/SSM Post” category
DMI Dave:
Did you notice??
These are the 2008 Niblets. 2009 Niblets yet to come.
Do you still wish to withdraw?
DMI Dave, humility’s great and all, but the people have spoken. Can you really disappoint your adoring public?
Thanks for all of the links…..I feel like I’ve been given manna….don’t have to search for things to read for quite a while.
I am very, very glad that the BCC Sidebar got a mention. Statistically, it is the most popular aspect of our site.
Also, thanks for the love re: Police Beat Roundtable. Not sure how many more of those we have left in us, but it’s been fun.
I’d like to nominate Kevinf as best commenter. Consistently kind and commonsensical.
My own Mitt post: [http://www.deadseriously.net/2008/02/4-reasons-this-mormon-is-glad-mitt-quit.html]
Best Solo/Best New Blog: MyReligiousBlog.com (it’s criminal that it got no nominations)
I just want to add my endorsement of Police Beat Roundtable. That was sheer comic genious. Also, if you loved “The Down-There Doc,” you’ll really love this OP from The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/renowned_hoo_ha_doctor_wins_nobel
Does someone want to hazard a guess as to Rebecca’s most humorous post at FMH?
I would like to put in a nomination for Seth R. for best commenter.
I have a bunch of nominations in your spam catcher.
I would also like to say that there is no way in hell Todd Wood is a better wolf in sheep’s clothing than I am. Everyone knows what Todd is, but people trust me to the extent that I’m guest-blogging at the #2 blog in the Bloggernacle.
Soon I will shed my sheepish disguise and begin feasting on your tasty, tasty Mormon flesh.
I second Jack. She’s lulling everyone into a carnal sense of security, so to speak, and That One Guy Who Left T&S In A Huff called here out as a veritable “albino anti”
albino like a vampire who feasts on tasty, tasty Mormon flesh.
Andrew, your comment made me giddy.
TT et al – I’ve checked the spamcatcher (like a suncatcher but full of nude celebrities instead of sunlight), and I believe everything legit has been freed up. Please let us know if otherwise!
I think TT’s nominations were in the spamcatcher on the initial Niblets thread (and his nominations there aren’t reflected in the nomination lists above).
Also, I do have a question. In the past, blogs that were nominated for the best big blog weren’t eligible for the best group blog category, since this would give smaller blogs a chance to win (with the rationale that any big blog would win the group blog category as well because they’re bigger and have more fans). I’m fine with things either way (I’m not trying to cause any problems). But if you’re letting blogs nominated for the big blog category also be nominated for best group blog, you should probably make it clear, since this is not how things were done in the past. My guess is that some of the bigger blogs like FMH would have been nominated for best group blog, otherwise. Or, you should keep things consistent with past years to eliminate confusion.
TT,
That’s what happens when you nominate texas-holdem.com and hot-naked-ladies.com for best blogs. Try taking those ones out and resubmitting.
hey! texas-holdem.com is a great historical blog about that polygamist sect’s base in texas.
it was def. the hot-naked-ladies one.
You might as well throw in a couple more for “nicest evil villain”:
Christopher Smith from “Mild Mannered Musings”
Bridget Jack Meyers from “Clobberblog”
Andrew from “Irresistible (Dis)Grace”
Todd Wood from “Heart Issues for LDS”
Chanson is a nice pick, but at least make it a vote.
Thank you, Seraphine, the panel is taking that under advisement.
Sorry you were overlooked, TT, think I got them all now.
Catching up, but –
Amen, to #2 and #4. The April Fool’s Day spoof was epic, and we really shouldn’t have to split votes for Ardis – or anyone else who wants to choose one of their nominated posts.
Holden, if we’re encouraging self-promotion (like that’s an “if” – *grin*), I link to great posts from the Bloggernacle archives each Tuesday and Thursday on my own blog (thingsofmysoul.blogspot.com). There are more than a few dozen exceptional posts linked there, if you want to check them out.
Thanks, Ray. I’ll check it out. It’s much better when others do the cooking and all you have to do is eat.
Batman: wow, timewarp. Yes, withdraw DMI from the 2008 Best Solo category. I think I got it in 2007. One of the other fine solo blogs deserves the recognition and fame that comes with a Niblet.
Best Mitt Romney Post — My post on his ancestry (“Forget polygamy …”) should be withdrawn. It was originally published at T&S in February 2007, although it shows up with a 2008 date after I transferred it to Keepa. Nice to know it was memorable!
{sigh} Okay. I’m outed.
I nominated one of Ardis’ less-favorite posts (I nominated “Utah War Primer). For the sake of giving her a chance at winning something, I’m happy to have you take it out in favor of her preferred nomination (re codes/ciphers).
Cool that?
A lurker just asked me to nominate the following post from my personal blog for the Prop 8 post. Yes, Ma’am.
“Proposition 8 and the Presidency: A Week of Reviling” (I am having a problem with the link, so go to my blog and find it in the labels under “reviling” or in the calendar list for November 7, 2008. – That alone probably should disqualify it. *grin*)
If the goal is to win then I can certainly see the logic in removing nominated posts. However if the goal is to make a list of what was great in 2008 to use as a resource for those that appreciate a “best of the bloggernacle” type of list, then removing posts from the list of nominations is something of a crime. Personally I don’t care who wins, I like to read the stuff that gets nominated.
Why are the big blog and group blog categories overlapping? Seems like they should be different categories to me. (Although you might have trouble figuring out which blogs belong under the “big” category)
arJ has an excellent point. Perhaps a compromise would work:
If a particular author has multiple posts in a category, and if the total votes for those posts is greater than or equal to the “winner”, we declare co-winners.
Thoughts?
Blake wrote a Prop 8 post that deserves a nomination: http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2008/10/prop-8-comment-they-would-not-print/569/
Hi. Not to be a jerk or anything. But could I withdraw My Religious Blog from the Write In category “Funniest blog not named seriouslysoblessed”?
Other than that, I thank you all for the kind nominations.
Anyone have a link for Andrew Ainsworth’s Dark Night of My Soul?
Thanks
Dark Night of the Soul was marked private and is not available for viewing at this time.
In history, I nominate Jared T’s brilliant dismantling of S. Michael Tracy’s “Millions Shall Know Brother Joseph Again,” the first part of which is here, as well as Christopher’s useful and important thoughts on Mormonism’s place in American historiography here, and David’s Teaching About Racism (Including the Priesthood Ban) in Sacrament Meeting, here.
I would like to nominate for best group blog A Motley Vision (http://www.motleyvision.org/) and The Red Brick Store (http://theredbrickstore.com/).