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1 – Best BIG Blog (links provided)

• By Common Consent
• Feminist Mormon Housewives
• Millennial Star
• Mormon Matters
• Seriously So Blessed
• Times & Seasons

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2 – Best GROUP Blog (links provided)

• The Exponent
• Faith Promoting Rumor
• Juvenile Instructor
• Mormon Mentality
• Mormon Metaphysics
• New Cool Thang
• PoliticaLDS
• Segullah
• Zelophehad’s Daughters

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3 – Best SOLO blog:  (links provided)

• 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

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4 – Best NEW blog:  (links provided)

• 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

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5 – Best blog LAYOUT/GRAPHICS:  (links provided)

• Dave’s Mormon Inquiry (2008 version)
• Millennial Star
• Mind, Soul, and Body
• My Religious Blog
• Nine Moons
• Seriously So Blessed
• Temple Study

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6 – Best COMMENTER:  (sorry, no links!)

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7 – Most memorable COMMENT:

• DKL “masturbation is like a clutch” comment #36
• DKL “taking it on the jaw for Jesus” comment #170 and #182
• Russell Arben Fox “co-dependency becomes a perverse and sad sort of self-love” comment #54
• Ruth on segregation of sexes at the “Y” comment #72
• Ryan on “if God were a woman” comment #19
• Steve Evans “BCC’s infamous ‘Y1K’ problem” comment #994
• Steve Evans “Goodbye Obama” to the tune of “Candle In the Wind” comment #23
• TStevens “Dear Missionary Companion #7” comment #18

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8 – Best overall BLOGGER:  (sorry, no links!)

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9 – Best HUMOROUS post:  (links provided)

• 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.
• Rebecca J’s posts at BCC
• Tamn’s “The Down-There Doc”
• ZD April Fools — “Renouncing the Philosophies of Women Mingled with Scripture”
• ZD Sunstone Program Parody

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10 – Best HISTORICAL post:  (links provided)

• Ardis Parshall’s 3 part “Codes and Cyphers in Mormon History”
• 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”

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11 – Best SPIRITUAL post:  (some links provided)

• 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”

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12 – Best DOCTRINAL post:  (links provided)

• 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”

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13 – Best CURRENT EVENTS post:  (links provided)

• Tamn’s “Tamners Goes to Washington”
• Bryce’s Wall-e post
• Jared T. “Summary of the 30th Anniversary Priesthood Commemoration”
• 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

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14 – Best PROP 8/SSM post:  (links provided)

• BCC’s Police Beat RoundTable
• Blake’s “Prop 8 Comment”
• 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”

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15 – Best MITT ROMNEY Post:  (links provided)

• Andrew S’s “Why Mitt Romney got Romney’d in the Election”
• 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”

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16 – NICEST “EVIL VILLAIN”/Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing:  (links provided)

• Aaron Shafavoloff from “Mormon Coffee”
• Andrew from “Irresistible (Dis)Grace”
• Bridget Jack Meyers from “Clobberblog”
• Chanson from “Letters From A Broad”
• Christopher Smith from “Mild Mannered Musings”
• Todd Wood from “Heart Issues for LDS”

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17 – Most blatant example of NAVEL-GAZING:  (links provided)

• 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

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18 - 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

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19 - WRITE-IN category:  (you may vote for up to 3)

• 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
• 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
• Best Sideblog: By Common Consent
• Best sidebar linksters: Marc Bohn and Kent Larsen
• Unsung Hero: Doc

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Thanks for doing your civic duty by voting, and thanks to all the contributors who made 2008 a banner year for the Bloggernacle!  We’re sure there are many more outstanding contributions than could be covered by this nomination process.  See you all again in 6-7 months for the 2009 Niblets Awards!

Comments welcome below.