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Zelophehad’s Daughters | My Nacle Notebook 2008: Funny comments — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:37:12 +0000

[...] the Niblets, a random John said that he enjoys looking back at the stuff that gets nominated more than he enjoys the voting. I tend to agree with [...]

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Me? An evil villain? « Heart Issues for LDS — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:13:08 +0000

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By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:27:54 +0000

I would like to nominate for best group blog A Motley Vision (http://www.motleyvision.org/) and The Red Brick Store (http://theredbrickstore.com/).

By: matt b

matt b — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:10:46 +0000

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.

By: hawkgrrrl

hawkgrrrl — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:40:13 +0000

Dark Night of the Soul was marked private and is not available for viewing at this time.

By: moksha

moksha — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:59:26 +0000

Anyone have a link for Andrew Ainsworth’s Dark Night of My Soul?

Thanks

By: Brother Matsby

Brother Matsby — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:01:48 +0000

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.

By: Geoff J

Geoff J — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:10:14 +0000

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/

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:02:53 +0000

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?

By: Geoff J

Geoff J — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:01:54 +0000

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)

By: a random John

a random John — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:41:59 +0000

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.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:30:33 +0000

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*)

By: Hunter

Hunter — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:08:02 +0000

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?

By: Ardis Parshall

Ardis Parshall — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:46:40 +0000

{sigh} Okay. I’m outed.

By: Banned Commenter

Banned Commenter — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:45:17 +0000

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!

By: DMI Dave

DMI Dave — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:35:57 +0000

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.

By: Holden Caulfield

Holden Caulfield — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:50:37 +0000

Thanks, Ray. I’ll check it out. It’s much better when others do the cooking and all you have to do is eat.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:27:03 +0000

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.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:23:06 +0000

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.

By: Batman

Batman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:40:53 +0000

Sorry you were overlooked, TT, think I got them all now.

By: Batman

Batman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:26:04 +0000

Thank you, Seraphine, the panel is taking that under advisement.

By: Seth R.

Seth R. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:37:04 +0000

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.

By: Andrew S

Andrew S — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:24:39 +0000

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.

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:43:14 +0000

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.

By: Seraphine

Seraphine — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:42:25 +0000

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.