Nominations for 2009 Weblog Awards now open!

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The 2009 Weblog Awards are now open, and you can submit your nomination on their comment threads, including … best comic strip!

Nominate your favorite webcomic here!

Randall Monroe’s xkcd is the current champ, winning the award in 2008 and 2007. Will 2009 be the year of the three-peat? Or can your favorite webcomic be the new star for 2009? Nominations are open until November 20. The path to Weblog Award winner begins … now!

(Also, I tooted my own horn for “Best Hidden Gem.” Because.)

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7 thoughts on “Nominations for 2009 Weblog Awards now open!

  1. Pingback: Nominations for 2009 Weblog Awards now open! | Comic Strip Continued

  2. Ah, the Weblog Awards. They’re sort of notorious for their conservatism, and always nominate the same safe, popular choices (the same blog — conservative, needless to say — won the Canadian category from 2004 to 2007, and in 2008, the blogger won in the general “conservative blog” category). One of its largest controversies was when a blog denying climate change was declared a co-winner in the science category.

    So chances are xkcd will win again, unless a conservative webcomic emerges (come to think of it, is there a notable conservative webcomic?).

    • Wouldn’t that be more up to the voters to determine if the award is conservative or liberal, though? I mean, granted Andrew Sullivan won the Best Blog category, but it’s not like The Daily Kos — which won the Best Blog Award in 2006, by the way — and the Huffington Post were disqualified from competing (both appeared on the voting ballot). 2008 also was the year that The Comics Curmudgeon — who makes it quite apparent on his blog that he’s not a conservative — won the Best Humor Blog, beating out several conservative leaning sites. Other winners, like Wil Wheaton and Wonkette (granted, for the Best Liberal Blog award) aren’t conservative.

      I mean, you could make a good argument that the conservative blogs do a good job of whipping their constituencies into voting, but I hardly think you could blame the Weblog Awards itself as they offer choices all across the political spectrum.

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