The 2008 Weblog Awards finalists are now being voted on, and a few of my friends are up in various categories. My recommendations are:
Best Blog – Hot Air
Best New Blog – The Black Sphere
Best Individual Blogger – Melissa Clouthier
Best Comic Strip – Day by Day (as if you couldn’t guess by looking at the top of this place)
Best Conservative Blogger (this one is VERY tough) – Right Wing Nut House (though you can’t go wrong with RedState, Ace of Spades HQ, Eject! Eject! Eject!, Michelle Malkin, American Thinker, Blue Collar Muse, Little Green Footballs or The Next Right)
Best Political Coverage – Thurber’s Thoughts (though Townhall is also in the mix; where’s The Campaign Spot, dammit?)
Best Military Blog – Blackfive (another tough one, with Michael Yon and This Ain’t Hell also in the mix)
Best Major Blog – Instapundit
Best Very Large Blog – Right Wing News
Best Large Blog – Sister Toldjah (another one that kills me because JammieWearingFool and Fausta’s Blog are also in the mix; I owe ST though)
Best Midsize Blog – Argghhh!
Best Small Blog – Nice Deb (another hard one because Pirate’s Cove and A Blog for All are also there, but I need to give the Morons something)
R&E (2:49 pm 1/6/2008) – Didn’t notice Michael Totten was up in the Best Middle East or Africa blog. Add him to the list.
You can vote once every 24 hours, and I do reserve the right to change the recommendations if the ones I’ve started voting for aren’t near the top and somebody else I like needs the push over the top.
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I would add in Best Science Blogs, Watt’s Up With That. He’s very good and scientific on global warming.
The rest of your picks are solid, as I knew they would be.
Thanks for the shout out. And thanks for the New Blog recommendation. I didn’t know who to vote for on that one.