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