Washington Post Aims For "Hip", Breaks Hip Instead (Wizbang)

The Washington Post proves it's got a ways to go before it complexly "gets" blogs. Their 2004 Best Blogs - Politics and Elections Readers' Choice Awards is now open and it's a steaming pile of turd right out of the gate.

Why?

Daily Kos

National Review - The Corner

Now you know why I announced the 2004 Weblog Awards a couple days before I was ready to make the announcement. It's going to be MUCH better...

Here's your exclusive first look at the Titanic of blog award ballots:

Legend - Bold (WTF?), Italic (Who?)

Best Rant

Eschaton
Daily Kos
National Review - The Corner
Billmon
Lileks.com

Best Democratic Party Coverage

Daily Kos
National Review - The Corner
Eschaton
Talking Points Memo
Electablog

Best Republican Party Coverage

National Review - The Corner
Blogs for Bush
Daily Kos
Redstate.org
Andrew Sullivan

Best International

Informed Comment
National Review - The Corner
Little Green Footballs
Iraq The Model
Oxblog

Most Original

National Review - The Corner
Fafblog
Lileks.com
Electablog
Little Green Footballs

Best Campaign Dirt

Wonkette
Daily Kos
National Review - The Corner
National Review - Kerry Spot
Eschaton

Best Inside the Beltway

Talking Points Memo
National Review - The Corner
Wonkette
INDC Journal
Daily Kos

Best Outside the Beltway

Eschaton
Instapundit.com
National Review - The Corner [Ed - Make up your mind, inside or outside]
Daily Kos [Ed - ditto]
Washington Monthly - Political Animal
Daly Thoughts ECB 2004

Class Clown

Wonkette
IMAO
ScrappleFace
Jesus' General
Fafblog

Most Likely To Last Beyond Election Day

Talking Points Memo
National Review - The Corner
Daily Kos
Instapundit.com
Eschaton

Of course none of the entries ~~are~~ were hyperlinked.

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Comments (19)

Why not a "best new bog" ca... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by Rusty Shackleford | September 28, 2004 5:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Rusty Shackleford:

Why not a "best new bog" category? *cough*

Posted on September 28, 2004 17:15

Sigh...if they were just go... (Below threshold)

2. Posted by Jess | September 28, 2004 5:18 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Jess:

Sigh...if they were just going to choose blogs randomly, why couldn't mine make the list? ;)

Posted on September 28, 2004 17:18

I wuz robbed. ... (Below threshold)

3. Posted by spacemonkey | September 28, 2004 5:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

spacemonkey:

I wuz robbed.

Posted on September 28, 2004 17:33

Daly Thoughts (http://www.d... (Below threshold)

4. Posted by bryant | September 28, 2004 5:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

bryant:

Daly Thoughts (http://www.dalythoughts.com) is a race jockey site that has some pretty good commentary. ECB = Electoral College Breakdown

Posted on September 28, 2004 17:35

Kos gets 7 nominations and ... (Below threshold)

5. Posted by Paul | September 28, 2004 5:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Paul:

Kos gets 7 nominations and Glenn gets 2? WTF?

and...

"Most Likely To Last Beyond Election Day" duh all of them!

Posted on September 28, 2004 17:36

and so wuz rusty.... (Below threshold)

6. Posted by spacemonkey | September 28, 2004 5:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

and so wuz rusty.

Posted on September 28, 2004 17:39

"If course none of the entr... (Below threshold)

7. Posted by Joe Grossberg | September 28, 2004 6:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Joe Grossberg:

"If course none of the entries are hyperlinked."

They are now, in JavaScript pop-up windows.

Why does Andrew Sullivan get your boldface? He's discussed the Republican Party extensively.

Posted on September 28, 2004 18:01

Other than the ECB 2004, an... (Below threshold)

8. Posted by Lysander | September 28, 2004 6:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Lysander:

Other than the ECB 2004, and the "no names" (I'm right there with you, what is "Fafblog", anyways?), I think I know how the mentally crippled monkey put this one together. It probably sat on "Screw 'Em" Kos, snickering like Beavis or Butthead, and listing all the Blogs "Screw 'Em" Kos likes or shiite's on.
It's as good a theory as any.

Lysander

Posted on September 28, 2004 18:04

Er...Kevin, the nominations... (Below threshold)

9. Posted by Jeff B. | September 28, 2004 6:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Jeff B.:

Er...Kevin, the nominations were done by online readers, not by the WaPo's people. I remember filling out a nominating form myself. Unless they personally intervened to place these nominations on the lists (who knows?), then blame internet democracy, not the Post.

I think this deserves a correction/update.

Posted on September 28, 2004 18:46

terrible, simply terrible.<... (Below threshold)

10. Posted by scot | September 28, 2004 6:56 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

scot:

terrible, simply terrible.

Posted on September 28, 2004 18:56

Er...Jeff B. do you think t... (Below threshold)

11. Posted by Kevin | September 28, 2004 7:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Kevin:

Er...Jeff B. do you think there were only 50 nominations? As I recall there weren't even nominating categories. I'm sure thousands of blogs were nominated. They didn't say the ones selected got the MOST nominations did they?

Either way if the numnuts running the contest couldn't be bothered to get an idea of the slant of each blog, they might have at least asked someone who knew...

Posted on September 28, 2004 19:08

Is WaPo digging a hole? Sou... (Below threshold)

12. Posted by Lastango | September 28, 2004 7:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Lastango:

Is WaPo digging a hole? Sounds like a chance to get in there and shovel with them, practice creative nominating, support the penetrating insight of the least-competent commie, introduce others to the objectivity of a Gulag-defending Euroweenie.

Leave WaPo a bigger, steamier pile of turds than when you found it and you'll be raising the chances they'll endorse Daschle/Feinstein for 2008.

If I ever blog I'll call myself the Pinko Pundit and I�ll be explaining why we should let Hillary take things away from us.

Posted on September 28, 2004 19:25

D'OH! The results are more... (Below threshold)

13. Posted by -S- | September 28, 2004 9:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

-S-:

D'OH! The results are more a reflection of who reads their paper, than the blogs themselves.

I'm guessing, by this time, that most people who use the internet are way familiar with those online polls: one blogger with a level of "popularity" posts a plea for reader vanity votes, they share that, that shares that, etc.

Next thing you know, it's "Happy Kos Week" or something close to that...unless WAPO can explain that their "votes" were acquired along with limiting one vote per I.P.A., then the whole process is just vanity. All of it, vanity.

I agree about, let's see....lileks and redstate and blogsforbush...but that's about it.

Also, I'm curious how many of those blogs nominated themselves. Err, were nominated from the same I.P.A. that they received votes from. Um, you know.

Posted on September 28, 2004 21:02

I think that for "Best Inte... (Below threshold)

14. Posted by blackbird4739 | September 28, 2004 9:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

blackbird4739:

I think that for "Best International," they meant best coverage of international events.

Posted on September 28, 2004 21:23

I voted for Daly. That sit... (Below threshold)

15. Posted by Crank | September 28, 2004 11:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Crank:

I voted for Daly. That site is an essential more-than-once-a-day read for its coverage of the state-by-state polls.

Posted on September 28, 2004 23:11

For the record I knew who D... (Below threshold)

16. Posted by Kevin | September 28, 2004 11:20 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

For the record I knew who Daly was, but I assumed many readers would not be able to decipher their abreviation. Heck he just hosted the Bonfire of the Vanities. I'd also heard of Fafablog (vaguely)...

Posted on September 28, 2004 23:20

The categories themselves a... (Below threshold)

17. Posted by David C | September 29, 2004 9:31 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

David C:

The categories themselves are kind of silly, and illustrative of the Post's MSM worldview. There seems to be an underlying assumption on the part of the Post that "this blog thing" is either just an aberration - just an adjunct to a presidential election that will disappear soon after. And/or that most blogs focus on real inside-baseball political wonk stuff (e.g., I can't really think of *any* blogs that focus specifically on "the Democratic party" or "the Republican Party" as such.)

Posted on September 29, 2004 09:31

Didn't I just read that bil... (Below threshold)

18. Posted by JFH | September 29, 2004 10:53 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

JFH:

Didn't I just read that billmon is now defunct?

Posted on September 29, 2004 10:53

Yep Billmon retired.... (Below threshold)

19. Posted by Kevin | September 29, 2004 11:18 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Yep Billmon retired.

Posted on September 29, 2004 11:18

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