The 2008 Weblog Awards

Voting for The 2008 Weblog Awards is now over.  This year's turnout was simply amazing; 3.2 million page views, 2 million visitors, and 933,022 votes cast in 48 categories...

Thank you to everyone who have made The 2008 Weblog Awards a smashing success!  As of today there have been over 870,000 votes in 48 categories.  Polls close tomorrow at 5PM (US - Eastern), so there could well be over 1 million votes cast when all is said and done.  That's our biggest turnout...

As we make our way through the weekend voting for The 2008 Weblog Awards there's a few items we want to share...

First a quick stats update.....

A couple short notes... Details on embedding polls for The 2008 Weblog Awards on your site are available here. We're posting interesting stuff we find on our Twitter feed throughout the day.  Kudos to judge Matt D...

Thanks to overwhelming participation The 2008 Weblog Awards are off to an exciting start.  In less than 24 hours over 100,000 votes have been cast in 48 categories...

With polls now open we need to describe one of the changes in the voting mechanism this year...

As we count down to the polls opening there's a few items of interest to pass on... Polls will open on Jan...

The 2008 Weblog Awards Finalists badges are now available for finalists to use on their website. Feel free to host the graphic on your own server, or to use the linking code provided courtesy of our friends at ImageShack. The linking codes are available below...

We know many of you have been waiting for this... Finalist badges are now available here.  To go with the logos, we've now published to poll locations for all categories here...

Every day we'll be updating the site with important information and observations about the progress of The 2008 Weblog Awards. Today we're announcing that the permanent location of each of the 48 polls have been set.  The finalist polls can be reached via the main poll navigation page here...

Vote for your choice for 2008's Best Blog.

Vote for your choice for Best Individual Blogger. With many popular blogs adopting a muti-author format, we've switched the Group Blog award to an individual award. The finalist author may write for an individual blog or be a member of a community or group site.

Here is a complete list of the finalists for The 2008 Weblog Awards. Finalists badges (hosted by Imageshack) will be available Wednesday. Voting is scheduled to begin on January 5, 2009...

Every year this is the hardest post I have to write - the one where I explain why your nominated blog was not selected as a finalist.  First, the odds are heavily stacked against you.  This year we received over 5,000 nominations in 49 categories, of which no more than 500 will be selected as...

Sunday (Dec. 28) Monday Dec. 29 we'll be announcing finalists in all categories.  The list is done now except for one category we're working furiously to finish.  Check back Monday night for the names of the 500+ sites selected as finalists. Voting begins Jan...

Thanks to a record number of nominations, nearly 5,000, the finalist selection process is going much slower than it has in previous years.  Right now we're on track to finish within the next week, however that really pushes the voting closer to Christmas than we would like...

Thanks to everyone who nominated blogs this year!  We had a record number of nominations - over 4,800 at last count...

Nominate your choice for 2008's Best Blog.

Nominate your choice for Best New Blog. The blog must have been established after October 3, 2007 - when last years nominations opened.

Nominate your choice for Best Individual Blogger. With many popular blogs adopting a muti-author format, we've switched the Group Blog award to an individual award. The nominated author may write for an individual blog or be a member of a community or group site...