Comments on: Best Blog Posts for 2006 - It’s on!!

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:18:23 +0000

Thanks Ken. I suspected they’d want to host copies on their own site as well as provide offsite links, which is fair enough. I do want to thank you very much for all your trouble, especially with your email going AWOL like that. Would I be able to grab a copy of the list? I put a fair bit of time into coming up with my selection, am hoping it was all okay. I’ll flock off now before my typing ability goes completely up the spout as a result of Christmas boozing

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:07:02 +0000

Yes I received Helen’s stuff and no I don’t have email access back yet. I have however completed the BBP2006 list (Top 40 rather than 30, it turned out) and posted it in draft here at Troppo. Thus Nicholas is able to access it and deal with OLO. I understand they want to publish two articles/posts each week day through January in full text (rather than just a Missing Link-style annotated links list). Thus I imagine Graham Young or someone else on behalf of OLO will be contacting selected authors soon to seek the full text of your article in an appropriate format. Apparently OLO agree that Troppo, Catallaxy and LP will also be able to publish the selected articles (or at least links to them) simultaneously with OLO publication. I don’t know how or when we’re going to be told what order OLO will be publishing articles in or on what days. Presumably Nicholas will be liaising with Graham Young about that. It’s worth accommodating their publication wishes, I think, because OLO has quite a big audience, and a significant part of the motivation for this exercise was to expose the best of blog writing to a new and larger audience.

Anyway, Merry Xmas everyone.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:53:30 +0000

If you sent it there, it should have got through. I’ll ask Ken to acknowledge.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:31:03 +0000

NG: has Ken got email access back yet? I’m just hoping he got my stuff for BBP2006, that’s all, and he was having some mighty big email troubles. I sent what he needed to Jen’s address but haven’t heard back.

Ta.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:06:17 +0000

We hope to publish a couple a day on Online Opinion through January. Something done as quickly as this involves a fair bit of improvisation along the way.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:31:05 +0000

When are you going to reveal the best posts of 2006? I thought you originally hoped to have them up by Christmas …

By: Minotaur

Minotaur — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:51:49 +0000

For Your (Late) Consideration: The `Aboriginal Problem' Private Kovco: A Tragedy of Errors Sheiking the Multiculturalism Debate What's UnAustralian? Morally Wrong Modia `Marisa Tomei' Minotaur P.S. I've posted these despite the deadline having already passed because I'm just enjoying both reading the nominees and reading back over my own posts for the year. In a sense, this is more in keeping with the spirit of blogging than a peer-reviewed publication or prize, n'est ce pas?

By: Fyodor

Fyodor — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:14:27 +0000

Poifect. Ta.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:56:34 +0000

I hope I’ve managed to do it now.

By: Fyodor

Fyodor — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:32:43 +0000

Thanks muchly, Nick. It’s entirely my fault, as the comment is heavy with linky goodness.

Sorry to put you to more bother, but could you complete the URL links for Crazybrave and Kate at M2M? The links don’t work as they are.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:02:28 +0000

Geez - what a business getting these nominations. I’ve just posted Fyodor’s comment - emailed to me - but it went into the spam - I’m just going to get it now - though it’s a more complicated process on account of the fact that de-spamifying only works in my non default browser. Ie in IE, not FF.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:58:15 +0000

Here's Fyodor's contribution.

I nominate the following posts for your consideration. I think &Duck has already received a couple of nominations, and here are some more: first, the recent post about her near-pregnancy experience, "Gathering Strength"; and, second, her earlier post this year on the birth of her son and his heart problems, "Matters of the Heart". These two posts alone should get her the Best Personal Blog 2006 if there's any justice. From Crazybrave, her "Austrayan Values: A Sense of Bollocks" post is a must-read from this year. It may not fit the essayish format desired, but deserves an exception. Agreed that David Tiley is a dead cert given the brilliance of his hospital story in "Coming Back Slowly". However, not to denigrate that post, but I preferred "Memory Satellite". The line, "This is the last place where I was young." still resonates with me, and the use of Google Earth to mark the geography of his memory is at once both timely and timeless. Comedic photo-phun from Teej Mahal in "I'm going to get gunned down by someone with dial-up. Well maybe not gunned down. They might throw a stick or something, you know - primitive..." Also not in traditional essay form but gutbustingly hilarious use of the blogging medium. From Kate at M2M, a post The Joss Whedon Post We Had to Have, or Joss Whedon and Feminism, Part One" so (apparently) controversial it deluged her site with Whedon (you know: Buffy, Angel, Firefly/Serenity etc.) fanatics. Lucy Tartan in feckin' fine form kicking six shades of shite out of da Da Vinci Code in "May 2006 is National 'Run Over a Hulking Albino Monk' Month" over at Sorrows at S-Bend. Ms Pavlova getting a mite Possessed again. This list is not exhaustive, but I thought these posts deserved your attention and consideration.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:35:36 +0000

There are currently 630 spam comments in the bin, all from the last 15 days. There are 150 on the first page, all from the last 24 hours. Fyodor’s isn’t among them. I don’t know how to turn back to earlier pages, and can’t be bothered finding out. So Fyodor’s comment is probably gone forever unless someone can tell me how to find earlier entries in the spam bin in Wordpress.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:27:09 +0000

It’s probably been automatically consigned to the spam bin through having too many links. Now that I’ve finished Missing Link I’ll go and try to find it and rescue it.

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:53:13 +0000

So… any chance of demoderating Fyodor’s comment? I know I’ll be disappointed having waited this long, but I’m still curious to know what it was.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:11:24 +0000

Here’s my favourite two of my own (already nominated one of Pavlov’s Cat’s)

Affluence

Why don’t women make partner?

By: Bannerman

Bannerman — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:29:25 +0000

JC: ‘Bannerman’ is a family name pertaining to the writers ancestry. The name has nothing to do with Seinfeld. When Bannerman says he’s never seen or heard anything of Seinfelds’, he means precisely that. 3rd person presentation is merely a form of expression. Nothing more, nothing less.

By: John Humphreys

John Humphreys — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:14:33 +0000

http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/the-rise-and-fall-of-social-democracy/

By: Fyodor

Fyodor — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:08:32 +0000

Moderation?

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:02:34 +0000

Can I nominate one of my own?

http://happyantipodean.blogspot.com/2006/12/in-october-caroline-overington.html

Let’s go!