THAT'S not what you said in the Jeffries' Tube

This makes this post somewhat more difficult than I was anticipating... ANYWAY. I am going to tell you who I would like to see win and who I think WILL win (with as many single intenders as I can fit) and we'll find out tomorrow how right or wrong I am.

Category	Who I want to win	Who I think WILL win	Comment
Blog of the Year (The Big Botty)	Zoe O'Connell	David Boyle	I nominated Jonathan Calder for Liberal England, mainly because I can't believe he's not won it already. David Boyle has been consistently good this year, though... The field is a good one, with no one blogger who will obviously stand out as "THAT'S the winner!" to everybody. Frankly, I'll be happy as long as neither I nor Count Packula win, because neither of us needs it. Zoe's blog deserves to be much more widely read, though, and on that basis I'd like to see her win it.
Blog Post of the Year	Sarah Brown	Count Packula's pretty picture	People like Infographics. They annoy me, because they're great big long unwieldy lumps of stuff that take ages to load, and I can't read them properly on my phone without zooming in and out all the time, but apparently I'm in a minority. Sarah's post, though, is hands down the most important and must-read one on the list, and fully deserves to win.
Tweeter/Facebooker of the year	@stackee	@LordBonkers	I think this one is as wide open as the Big Botty to be honest, and it all depends on whether judges value dry Lib Demmery or humanity or both as to who wins. It could be any of the nominees, but I've plumped for Lord Bonkers because Rutland's award cabinet needs fresh metal.
Tim Garden Award	Lynne Featherstone	toss up between Tim Farron & Julian Huppert	I don't think Jo Swinson or Tom Brake use twitter in the way it's meant to be used. They put stuff out but they don't interact as much as the other three do. Julian and Tim are digital natives, and it shows; Lynne is a bloody good twitterer too, and given that there's not much to choose between the three I want her to win for basically sexist reasons. Girls doing politics AND tech? Hell to the yes.
Best LD Online Campaign	Gold Guard	Team Eastleigh	This is another one that's wide open and any of the nominees could win it. On that basis: anyone but me, please, judges.

The public vote has now ended for Non Lib Dem Online Campaign (English Disco Lovers FTW!) and Photo (YAY Doctor Huppert!) so all we need to do now is sit back and wait for the ceremony. I'll not be at the ceremony myself, but I'll be keeping my eye on twitter to see who wins. I hope those who DO go the ceremony have a good time, and whether I win or lose have a gin or several for me :)

So I, personally, am the fourteenth best Lib Dem blogger, and my blog is the seventeenth best blog, according to those who voted in the Total Bollocks Willy Waving Awards. This puts me in the slightly embarrassing position of having beaten my favourite minister of state in both charts - sorry Lynne :(

Am really glad to see Caron second only to Lib Dem Voice and Count Packula in each chart. I hope this is a good sign for the Botties tonight. I've been nominated for best post in that, but I don't expect to win. Both Neil's and Alex's nominated posts are better than mine. Also I have issued threats to various people about what will happen if I DO win...

It's that time of the year again, and my usual exhortation. Please go vote, and vote for some girls. If Caron isn't in the top five this year there's no justice.

Right. Since this all went tits up with poorly doggies, and I am bad at administrating things anyway (why oh why can I not have Mummy Helen's skill with such matters?) we're going to get this over with by doing the last two categories together. Next year I'm going to simplify this A LOT LOL.



Here is a list of all the eligible blogs which have been nominated for geekiest blogger:

Antony Green's Election Blog
damned_colonial
davegodfrey
Gavin Robinson
Geeka Chicas
James Masterton
SV-POW

And here is a list of all the eligible blogs which have been nominated for best Sex-Positve blog:

Either/And
FuckYeah! Ask a Bi!
Male Submission Art
Modern Poly
Rarely Wears Lipstick
tajasel
Yes Means Yes

Please take a look at them, assess them, and then vote. The vote is anonymous, and you don't have to have a Dreamwidth account to vote - instructions on logging in with open ID are here. Do feel free to pimp it out to your readers if you've been nominated. The poll will remain open until midnight on Thursday, and the voting for the overall winner will go up on Friday and be open for a week.



Other Categories:

• Best Political Blog - won by Debi Linton
• Best Fandom Blog - won by diggerdydum
• Best Feminist Blog - won by The Hathor Legacy
• Wittiest Blog - won by Cake Wrecks
• Prettiest blog - won by ginasketch
• Sexiest Blogger - won by nanila
• Best Beardy Blogger - won by burkesworks
• Best Non-Human Blogger - won by Millennium Elephant

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Here is a list of all the eligible blogs which have been nominated for best non-human blogger:

Big Ben
Bully
Corpse Flower Lois
Millennium Elephant
Pink Dog
Sockington

Please take a look at them, assess them, and then vote. The vote is anonymous, and you don't have to have a Dreamwidth account to vote - instructions on logging in with open ID are here. Do feel free to pimp it out to your readers if you've been nominated. The poll will remain open for a week, and the next category will go up tomorrow.



Other Categories:

• Best Political Blog - won by Debi Linton
• Best Fandom Blog - won by diggerdydum
• Best Feminist Blog - Just over 10 hours left to vote! The poll will be closed at midnight. Hathor Legacy is currently leading FEMINIST HULK by 3 votes.
• Wittiest Blog - 1 day left to vote
• Prettiest blog - 2 days left to vote
• Sexiest Blogger - 3 days left to vote
• Best Beardy Blogger - 4 Days left to vote.

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Here is a list of all the blogs which have been nominated for sexiest blogger:

The Atrocity Exhibition
davegodfrey
djm4
helenic
matgb
minnesatva
nanila
Penny Red
strfvr
Wil Wheaton

Please take a look at them, assess them, and then vote. The vote is anonymous, and you don't have to have a Dreamwidth account to vote - instructions on logging in with open ID are here. Do feel free to pimp it out to your readers if you've been nominated. The poll will remain open for a week, and the next category will go up tomorrow.



Other Categories:

• Best Political Blog - 11 hours left to vote! The poll will be closed at midnight. Debi Linton is currently leading Millennium Elephant by 2 votes.
• Best Fandom Blog - 1 day left to vote
• Best Feminist Blog - 4 days left to vote
• Wittiest Blog - 5 days left to vote
• Prettiest blog - 6 days left to vote

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Here is a list of all the blogs which have been nominated for wittiest blog:

Apathy Sketchpad
BBC Comedy Blog
Cake Wrecks
Failblog
John Scalzi
nanaya
Quizzlestick
Richard Herring
Victoria Coren

Please take a look at them, assess them, and then vote. The vote is anonymous, and you don't have to have a Dreamwidth account to vote - instructions on logging in with open ID are here. Do feel free to pimp it out to your readers if you've been nominated. The poll will remain open for a week, and the next category will go up tomorrow.



Other Categories:

• Best Political Blog - 3 days left to vote
• Best Fandom Blog - 3 days left to vote
• Best Feminist Blog - 6 days left to vote

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Here is a list of all the blogs which have been nominated for best fandom blog:

Den of Geek
diggerdydum
Fandom Wank
lizbee
looking2dastars
Moviegrrl Reviews
The Mindless Ones
who_daily

Please take a look at them, assess them, and then vote. The vote is anonymous, and you don't have to have a Dreamwidth account to vote - instructions on logging in with open ID are here. Do feel free to pimp it out to your readers if you've been nominated. The poll will remain open for a week, and the next category will go up tomorrow.



Other Categories:

• Best Political Blog - 6 days left to vote

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Due to popular Demand*, I am going to run my own series of blog awards again. I am seeking nominations in the following categories:

1. Best Political Blog (e.g. Caron's Musings, Helen Duffett)


2. Best Fandom Blog (e.g. lizbee, Den of Geek)


3. Best Feminist Blog (e.g. Feminist Law Professors, Pink Stinks)


4. Wittiest Blog (e.g. FailBlog, BBC Comedy Blog)


5. Prettiest Blog design (e.g. Thagomizer, Jon Ball)


6. Sexiest Blogger (e.g. Penny Red, djm4)


7. Best Beardy Blogger (e.g. burkesworks, my own dear wife).


8. Best Non-human Blogger (e.g. Millennium Elephant, Pink Dog)


9. Geekiest Blogger (e.g. davegodfrey, Geeka Chicas)


10. Best Sex Positive Blog (e.g. Yes Means Yes, Modern Poly)

Each category will have a number blogs selected from the nominations, and there will be a public vote as to who wins each category. The winners of each category will be put forward in a public vote for the overall Best Blog award.

Anonymous nominations are allowed. You can nominate in as few or as many categories as you like. Blogs with multiple authors are also allowed in any of the categories. A blog must have been updated in the last quarter (three months) to be eligible. I reserve the right to reject nominations for entirely capricious and self-serving reasons, just like every other set of blog awards. The only difference is, I don't try and hide it.

Nominations close on SUNDAY at MIDNIGHT, that's in three days' time, at which point comments on this entry will be closed. So get nominating!

* i.e. Andrew Hickey asked me to do it.

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The Egregious Tory Tosser is running his Westminster Village willy-waving contest again. My aim in publicising this is simple. I want to get as many people as possible to vote for blogs written by people who don't have willies to wave, who don't concentrate on gossippy rubbish, and who actually have something to say. I'm not one for positive discrimination, as you know, but I am pig sick of the political blogosphere being painted as a self-congratulatory boy's own club which is obsessed with Westminster gossip. My method for subverting this, then, is to vote entirely for female-written blogs. YMM, obvs, V.

Here are the rules:

1. You must vote for your ten favourite blogs and rank them from 1 (your favourite) to 10 (your tenth favourite).
2. Your votes must be ranked from 1 to 10. Any votes which do not have rankings will not be counted.
3. You MUST include at least FIVE blogs in your list, but please list ten if you can. If you include fewer than five, your vote will not count.
4. Email your vote to toptenblogs@totalpolitics.com
5. Only vote once.
6. Only blogs based in the UK, run by UK residents or based on UK politics are eligible. No blog will be excluded from voting.
7. Anonymous votes will not count. You must give a name.
8. All votes must be received by midnight on 31 July 2010. Any votes received after that date will not count.
9, DO NOT list on your blog ten blogs you think your readers should vote for. Any duplicate voting of this nature will be disallowed.

Please ensure you stick to the rules, and vote for anyone other than the boring usual suspects like the egregious Tory Tosser and Guido.

For your edification, ( the blogs I have voted for are under the cut. Please note that I publish them in the spirit of openness and transparency, and NOT to tell anyone else who to vote for. )

I urge you (ALL of you!) to vote early, vote ONCE (or your vote won't be counted), vote for the girls. Oh yes, and if you DO decide to publicise this yourself (and I heartily encourage you to do so - in fact, you can copy and paste this post wholesale if you like, as long as you put your own list of blogs you voted for in there instead of mine) DO NOT link to the Egregious Tory Tosser's blog in your post. His ranking is QUITE high enough as it is.

ETA: a thought. If everyone who reads this puts Debi for their number one, whoever else they put for the other nine, this will be a good way to make the point. It'll be like Rage Against the Machine being Christmas number one. And it'll really wind Debi up... ;) Do please vote for other people than I did in the other nine places, though, so as to not fall foul of the duplicate voting rule.

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Today appears to be award day. I am at 117 in the Total Bollocks chart, up from 165 last year, which is not bad to say that all That Tory Blogger's mates will have voted. I've made myself a slightly amended button. Anyone who wants one doing of any of the other images, it's a five minute job, so do let me know:



The nominations are also out for the botties, and I'd particularly like to congratulate Caron, Grouchy, and Millennium. Perhaps the year of Fluffy Justice is here at last? C'mon judges, put aside your cuddly toy prejudice and vote fluffy. Don't be predictable and pick Charlotte or Mark or Costigan. You know it makes fluffy sense.

Now I have to organise decorations for the Losers' Table. Perhaps I could get Mat to bake some special cookies...

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