Jennifer Marohasy

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The 2008 Weblog AwardsWE are into the final days of voting for the 2008 Weblog Awards. 

This blog is a finalist in the online community section.   There is no environment section.  

You can vote every 24 hours.  We are only short a few hundred or so votes.  

So please, vote now, and then vote again tomorrow, and then it will be all over.

Click here: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-online-community/

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  1. Avatar photojennifer says

    FROM THE AWARD PEOPLE:

    Thank you to everyone who has made The 2008 Weblog Awards <http://2008.weblogawards.org> such a smashing success. As of today there have been 870,000 votes in 48 categories. Polls close tomorrow at 5PM (US – Eastern), so there could well be over 1 million votes cast when all is said and done.

    IMPORTANT! – In the next two hours we will be shutting down the poll embed code and redirecting it to a link to the poll page <http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/>
    . We are doing this because today the load on our servers spike to an extent that sites without embedded polls were having trouble sending voters to the polls. As much as we’d like to keep the embedded polls open (and we will move to cloud computing next year to handle that extra load), the only fair thing to do is close make everyones access to the poll page the same. Our severs have kept up with the load all week, only slowing noticeably during a few peak hours during the day.
    The first two days of poll embedding when well, it was only when we opened up access that things started to slow down for everyone.

    Final results should be certified on Wednesday. To this point we’ve seen no breaches in our security and all polls are accurate.

    Thank again,

    _______________________________

    Kevin Aylward

    The Weblog Awards

    NOW GO AND VOTE HERE:

    http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-online-community/

  2. James Mayeau says

    Jen has moved into a solid second place, passing My Opera and Metafilter community this afternoon.

    Please note that the Enron funded Fenton communications disinformation site, “Real Climate” dot org is languishing at 1,069 votes. This inspite of it being the media darling spin merchant of choice where the MSM directs any question they are too lazy or corrupt to reseach themselves.

    In fact, all of the skeptical sites have buried Real Climate in the dust.

    I call that a global victory.

  3. Jeremy C says

    Jennifer,

    As we can vote more than once it will only be a pyrrhic victory for who ever wins. Who was the corrupt mayor in the US who joked, “vote early and vote often”?.

    I’d ignore the whole thing if I was you.

  4. James Mayeau says

    It’s true that each individual computer can vote once a day over the week that polls are open, but I would take that as a measure of dedication from your viewership.
    It’s not the same as hacking the vote or digging up dead relatives for an election.

    I wouldn’t throw in the towel because your in second place either. The current front runner “The Strobist”, is nominated in two different categories.
    Best photo blog, and best online commmunity.
    Unless I miss my guess there will be a ruling that a single entrant can not win in two different categories, in which case the runner up will win the contest.
    Strobist is dedicated to helping people improve their lighting technique for digital photography, so when push comes to shove it would be more fitting for it to be awarded a photography award then a community award.

    Jen has a good shot at this thing still.

  5. Jeremy C says

    Jennifer,

    Having looked over this blog award thingy I want to ask what is the purpose of it when everyone can, ‘vote early and vote often’? What is your purpose in seeking to enter and to win it, is it validation, influence? It certainly doesn’t say whether the blogs entered have anything to say or what they print as being true, creative, useful. It just seems a bit celeb tainted. For example say your blog wins and the Realclimate blog comes absolutely last in its category does it give your blog any more authority in what is printed over that of Realclimate or Strobist or My Opera or the Michael jackson Fan Forum. Or look at it another way, say I have a blog with 10,000 members and you have a blog with 1,000 members and mine vote and win the blog award why would that have any meaning beyond the numbers?

    Looking over the finalists in the category your blog is entered in I noticed that Strobist and My Opera were taking the same attitude to the blog awards as you are while over at Realclimate they are using it to discuss the nature of science blogging. Perhaps it will give you more influence if you win than Realclimate but I might just blow a raspberry each time you mention any such award in the year to come. But I might be inured to awards as I have a family member with three Emmy Awards and we play games with one of the statuettes at the dinner table and and wave it around with the winner of the awards leading the joking.

    Perhaps the best thing to come out of it will be if the finalists get a slap up meal together for which they don’t have to pay for.

  6. DMS says

    Jeremy C,

    C’mon, chill (no pun intended when I wrote that). It’s just a bit of fun – any competition I was in, or nominated in, I’d want to win it; popularity contest, beauty contest (albeit unlikely) or even a Year 9 maths exam (loooong ago).

    Who cares about repeat votes – thems the rules, they are transparent and all the sites’ participants/readers are free to multi vote.

    And see – you are seeking validation by mentioning the three Emmys. Let’s just call it even hey, and have a few chuckles. In any case it looks like Jen may not have won the “popular vote”, even if there’s a drop out from Strobist.

    No harm, no foul.

  8. Graham Smith says

    Congratulations on the strong showing in this year’s awards. All your regular contributors should take a measure of pride as the vote is an indication of appreciation from the wider blogosphere for your continued and spirited exchange of ideas, perspectives and information.
    Note that sites on environmental and climate topics that censure posts and are predominantly negative and disparaging in tone, languished in the voting, while this site, Climate Audit and Watts up With That all did exceptionally well: a strong vindication for free-thinking and reasonable discussion. Learning is not difficult: it just takes an open mind. Those that are closed minded got their just desserts in the voting.

  9. SJT says

    This blog is important so that people can read all about the HIV/AIDS scam that scientists are spreading, all in the name of getting rich on research grants. Don’t believe me? Just ask Gordon, Louis and others all about it.

  10. wes george says

    Back from holiday in the nick of time to vote!

    Congratulations Jen for creating the best enviro community blog, if not on the planet, then certainly in the Southern Hemisphere.

    This small free marketplace of ideas that Jen has created is an environment where concepts wrestle fiercely, while silent but curious minds, (surely the vast majority of visitors here) naturally select the fittest for survival. Although, we rhetorical gladiators know not which they choose to amplify or dismiss.

    Jen seems to believe, far more than most of us, that every voice should be heard without censor and in the mayhem that follows insight can naturally, if unpredictably, rise out of the chaos. Interestingly, this is precisely the opposite approach of sites, like RC, where no matter whose computer I use or what alias, my posts are routinely censored as heresy to the orthodoxy they promote. Many others are also excluded from debate on these sites, which are reduced to mere billboards for their masters’ folly. One wonders why their hypotheses need to be protected from open debate. Is a hypothesis protected from free debate science or something less– dogma or just cant?

    Of course, Jen promotes a worldview, all individuals by definition possess a unique worldview. Yet unlike many, she subjects her views to the acid bath of hearty online dissent. The resulting discourse, while sometimes maddening, is an exemplar of Enlightenment values–rational debate, honest consideration of opposing points of view and the experience of personal growth through the willingness to modifying one’s worldview as new evidence presents itself. I can only hope that her robustly adaptive sanity is contagious.

    Memes are created and destroyed here. Or perhaps more correctly, virtual butterflies flap their wings here, what comes of it lies beyond the reach of any forecast, if not imagination.

    I hope everyone flogs their keyboard to pieces in 2009!

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