- Post of the Year: the shortlist.
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Our judges (including special guests James and Jessica) have been voting all week on this year’s fifty winning posts (yes, fifty: week 47 was a dead heat). Here’s our final shortlist of eight.
In order to decide upon the ultimate accolade of Post of the Year (ooooh!), we are throwing the voting open to all of you.
Have a read of the eight excellent finalists, and e-mail mikejla@btopenworld.com with your five favourites, in order of preference, starting with your favourite and working down. (Votes left in the comments won’t be counted. We must all respect the secrecy of the ballot box.)
If you’d like to add some supporting comments for any of the posts, then please feel free to do so.
The deadline for voting is 14:00 (UK time) on Monday December 31st.
Post of the Year will be announced later on the same day.
BIG HEAVY WARNING: Although you are more than welcome to publicise the vote on your own sites, any open soliciting for particular favourites is strictly forbidden. We want this to be decided on merit alone. You got that? Good, then we understand each other.
(Oh, and if you are the author of one of the blogs listed, then you are not permitted to vote for yourself, although you’re free to vote for your fellow finalists. Kinda obvious, really.)
OK, bring on the shortlist!
1. A Beautiful Revolution: Stuff in the air at 1 a.m. (Week 4)
2. Glitter for Brains: The Milky Bar Kid is Strong and Tough. (Week 11)
3. Big Ass Belle: piano music. (Week 14)
4. Growing Up With A Disability: Sandbox Lessons. (Week 16)
5. Little Red Boat: Hard life in the low rises. Of Hassocks. (Week 25)
6. Status Anxiety: I Blame Facebook. (Week 28)
7. Everything Is Electric: I was in a canteen somewhere in the Midlands this morning. (Week 47: joint winner)
8. Sarah, The Bringer of Tea: Happy Tranniversary to Me! (Week 47: joint winner)
See you on Monday!
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[…] Elsewhere in the blogosphere Written by Alex Foster on 28th December 2007 – 11:09 pm Over at the “Post of the Week” website, voting has opened on a shortlist drawn from the winners of each week during the year. […]
[…] My task was to help compile the short list for the post of the year! This involved reading a selection of the 50 winners of the post of the weeks and ranking my top 5. I have to say it was more difficult that expected, as all the posts in my section were of a high quality. Anyway as a result of the short list selection process the 8 nominees for the post of the year have been finalised and are now visible here. Not only that but the voting for the post of the year, in a break from the usual post of the week tradition, has been opened up to everyone. […]
[…] It has been neck and neck all the way during the voting, with no more than a whisker separating two of our eight shortlisted posts. […]
Oh, I missed this cos of being ill. I can’t find the list of nominations - it ain’t in the usual place. Any chance the nominations could also be made public somewhere, as I’m guessing many, like me, will have missed the whole thing, wot wiv the time of year an’ all?
Very worthy winners and shortlisters though - bravo to all an’ all that.