Twelve Black Code Monkeys

Having only stumbled upon blogging less than two years ago, even then the number of blogs was overwhelming and so I picked and chose what I read carefully. My other two associated problems of being a slow reader and having a compulsion to keep up to date with everything I read, made it so that I was reluctant to look at lots of blogs. So I just don’t have the familiarity I should with some very popular blogs which, being a blogger, I probably should!

Luckily, there this is the second year that the Weblog Awards have been given out, based on votes from anyone. You can vote once per day from a given IP address, which doesn’t avoid cheating, but the ability to use bots theoretically hampers those who want to really stack the deck! Certainly it’s not a definitive list, and of course popularity doesn’t equal quality, but of course it’s a starting point and will probably be really helpful as a starting place for anyone new to the Blogosphere, and I for one am going to take this as an opportunity to expand the reading I do a bit, god help me!

On a personal note, I was not nominated for any of the categories that I might have fit in, like Best Tech Blog, Photo Blog, or even Best of the Rest of the Blogs. I do, though, want to congratulate Engadget for being the top Tech Blog, which I think it really deserves, but also the close runner up, Gizmodo, which is a very useful and quite humorous edition to your tech reading. My friend, Eric McErlain, whom I spoke with at a white elephant party just this weekend, was hoping for a win in the Sports Blog category for his Off Wing Opinion. Unfortunately he was denied the title by Baseball Crank, and Athletics Nation somehow managed to hold onto an incredibly small lead to make Off Wing third. Congratulations are due to Eric all the same, for even getting this far in the very crowded category of Sports Blogs.