2008 Weblog Awards: Vote for Informed Comment
Hey, an update. Please vote for Informed Comment, which has been nominated for the 2008 Weblog Awards. If you voted 24 hours ago, you can now vote again. IC is losing! But not by much so every vote counts.
I've been busy with other things, but should ask my readers to vote for Informed Comment for the 2008 Weblog Awards. Voting open through Friday. (There is heavy traffic, so please be patient).
Kindly send some votes to My Marrakech, too!
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posted by Juan Cole @ 1/07/2009 12:30:00 AM
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IS OBAMA FAILING ALREADY?
HIS SILENCE ON GAZA IS DEAFENING
Barack Obama says that there is only one President at a time and he will not comment on policy issues until he takes office on January 20, 2009.
However, he can't stop talking about the economy and he was even on Capitol Hill yesterday pushing his economic package. But he has not said a word about the Gaza tragedy. People are dying by the hour and he refuses to comment. At least the economy is not killing people, Gaza war is and he should stand up and make his views known.
He says he talks to Condi Rice on Gaza situation every day and that is not a good thing. Rice is a straight faced liar probably telling Obama how hard she is working to bring peace, while at the same time encouraging Israel not to stop despite World pressure.
I hope the reason for Obama's silence is that he is trying not to be confrontational because he is diametrically opposed to Bush Administration's Middle East policy and intends to change course of events immediately upon taking office. If this is not the case, his silence on Gaza is immoral.
Let us hope this is the case.
The Aardvark's doing ok at Foreign Policy
Whooo HOO! Big time blogger now!
As for Technorati... Let me know when their ping mechanism works for longer than a month at a time without contacting support for a reset.
There's a similar strange bias in the Best Science Blog category, with flatly anti-science blogs like Watts Up With That and ClimateAudit represented. Discovery Institute didn't meet the bar?
Wanted to express my gratitude to the entries of informed comment. The visitor comments are often as informative as the blog posts--it has my vote.
Congratulations on your nomination. I was happy to learn of your interesting blog.
However, I am not clear about your point on Technorati and nomination rigging. My blog has a technorati ranking of 399, 900 less than yours. And my blog is not a political blog. Does that mean that it doesn't deserve to be a finalist? That it's not worthy? My readership may be a drop in the bucket compared with yours (I have had over 1 million readers.) but I don't think these blog awards should become a competition for the "elite" blogs only.
Hi, Maryam. A warm congratulations. No, I wasn't arguing that only high-ranking blogs should be nominated. I did have questions about some of the others which seemed disproportionately from one ideological spectrum.
Consider it done and I shall vote for you every day until the polls close.
A friend of mine is running in the Best UK Blog category. His name is Neil Clark and he is a good solid leftist who has blogged the plight of the Palestinians sympathetically. The front runner is Mad Mel - need I say any more?
Please vote for Neil Clark's Blog.
You are now in second place at the time of writing and in danger of falling into third. I do suggest most strongly that you remind your readers to vote every day until the polls close next Tuesday at 10.00pm GMT.
If you could also stick in a plug for Neil Clark that would be great.
I didn't know about this contest until I read Michael Totten's screed against you just now. So thank you to Michael. I just voted for you, Prof. Cole, and I will do so again every 24 hours until the contest closes.
I will now head on over to Michael's place and let him know how helpful he's been.
Hi, Juan. I duly voted for IC, of course. But looking at the category "Europe (without UK)", I saw that that category is absolutely biased this year. 7 out of 10 are run by American expats and the other ones by people who have strong ties to the US of A. They are all in English. The blog that leads the vote at this point, is a Czech one, that is linked to the infect hate-mongering German blog "Politically Incorrect". Two or three of the other ones are closely linked to the Czech blog. Another blog is a kind of watchblog against what it considers as "anti-americanism" in the German press. The rest is about ... food (2 times) and norwegian and icelandic folklore (2)! In 2006/2007, remarkable European blogs, like "A Fistful of Euros" and the Dutch "The Amazing Retecool Goldmember" (by outspoken gays), won in this category. The first one is in the business category now, where it doesn't belong.
Is somebody joking, or has Daniel Pipes had a hand in this category, this year?
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