Wanted: the best Okie blogs
December 29th, 2008Just when you thought the spreading of good cheer was winding down, along comes the 2008 Okie Blog Awards.
Created in 2005, the fourth annual Okie Blog Awards continues its mission to expose the most talented, creative, and entertaining bloggers in Oklahoma as determined by bloggers themselves.
Nominations will be accepted beginning Jan. 1 through Jan. 20, 2009. Visit the 2008 Okie Blog Awards site for details and instructions.
Only Okie bloggers with active Okie blogs are eligible to nominate and vote. “Active” is defined as having at least one blog post during the last 60 days of 2008. An “Okie blog” is defined as having at least one blog author residing within the state of Oklahoma.Categories
Best Overall Blog ——
Best Political Blog ——
Best Family Blog ——
Best Humor Blog ——
Best Audio Blog ——
Best Looking Blog ——
Best Writing ——
Best Commentary ——
Best Culture Blog ——
Best Unusual Blog ——
Best Inspirational Blog ——
Best Commercial Blog (company sponsored) ——
If you are an Okie blogger, please help spread the word and begin preparing your list of nominations. And feel free to use any Okie Blog Awards logo in your efforts.
Thanks for playing and may the best Okie bloggers win!
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 am
What no photography category! Define culture?
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:41 am
I would say your blog is very appropriately a culture blog. However, someone else may see it as inspirational. Or maybe even unusual.
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Cool now if I only get nom’d
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Just wanted to make sure it wasn’t specifically referring to blogs about OU football or chicken fried steak recipes. I was thinking more for the appropriate vote category for Little Axe’s other blog star – Debby Kaspari and her blog Drawing the Motmot. She gets about 600 hits a day – most of them repeat visitors but few of them Oklahomans. Gotta make sure she gets some local lovin’ while she’s working in the Amazon.
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 am
I always look forward to these. Thanks Mike!
Steph
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Please define “Okie Blog.” I would like very much to nominate Blair Humphreys’ http://imaginativeamerica.com/ blog for an award (once I figure out how his superb blog fits into one or more of the categories), but I don’t see that he is a member of Blog Oklahoma, if that is important.
Sooo … please explain!
Doug
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
An “Okie blog” is defined as having at least one blog author residing within the state of Oklahoma. Being a member of Blog Oklahoma is irrelevant.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:32 am
It is unfortunate that you continue to not offer a photography blog category. Is there a reason for this? Maybe one of these days I guess…
January 5th, 2009 at 8:30 am
The photo blogs fall into most any category & sometimes several the same year.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Mark (and TR), when first establishing the award categories, one criterion was that there be at least ten blogs eligible for a given category. I was not aware of ten Oklahoma blogs that focused on photography at that time. And to be honest, I still only know of about a half dozen Okie blogs whose primary content is made up of original photographs. Of course I would be happy to learn otherwise.
Although it doesn’t show it, I will tell you that I wrestle with the Award category list every year. I realize that a few categories such as Political, Family, and Culture are a bit crowded and perhaps I will at least make the list a baker’s dozen next year.
Thanks for the input.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Photography sounds like an excellent catagory for next year’s awards. Other catagories could be Sports, Music, Food, and maybe one for Best New Blog.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Are you telling me that there’s a blog devoted to chicken fried steak recipes? Where?!