Towleroad Wins 2008 Weblog Awards

Congrats to Andy and his team at Towleroad for his well-deserved winning of the 2008 Weblog Award for Best LGBT Blog! While it wasn't to be for us here at JMG, we had a little bit of fun with the beefcake and hopefully some of you discovered some great new reads from the list of nominees.

The 2008 Weblog Awards

This here website thingy is one of the finalists in 2008 Weblog Awards in the Best LGBT Blog category, which JMG won last year. My humblest thanks to those folks that submitted nominations. Voting begins today and you can vote for the blog of your choice once every 24 hours in the week-long (or so) voting period. There are some great choices this year and I recommend you check them all out. Here's the list of nominees with direct links to each.

Best LGBT Blog
Joe.My.God.
Towleroad
The Bilerico Project
Pam's House Blend
Susie Bright's Journal
Tammy Bruce
This Girl Called Automatic Win
TransGriot
Gay Patriot
Blabbeando

Congrats to all the nominees!

Nate Silver For The Win

Stats god Nate Silver interviewed radio host John Ziegler, the guy behind How Obama Got Elected, a cry-baby site that selectively asked some Obama supporters a bunch of misleading and unfactual questions, therefore proving that all Democrats are dum-dums. Let's just say that the interview doesn't go too well and ends with "Fuck you." Click. Dial tone. Here's the video that Ziegler posted.

If you haven't already nominated Silver's FiveThirtyEight for 2008's Best Blog or Best New Blog (or both), I suggest you do so. His was the go-to site for clear analysis of election polling data and his final call on the election was insanely on-the-mark.

RELATED: Nominations for Best LGBT Blog also continue until Friday.

2008 Weblog Awards Begin

Pam Spaulding notes that nominations have begun for the 2008 Weblog Awards. Last year JMG somehow managed to squeak past Pam after her well deserved win in 2006. Lots of categories this year including Best Blog, Best LGBT Blog, Best Individual Blogger, Best Online Community, and Best Liberal Blog. I'm nominating all of y'all for Best Community. It's just been an amazing year for blogging, certainly this is the first time in history that blogs have totally shaped the election process.