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Welcome To The 2003 Weblog Awards

Based on over 63,000 votes cast during the ten days polls were open (12/5/2003 -12/14/2003), here are the 22 winners of 2003 Weblog Awards. An archive of all 2003 Weblog Award related posts is available here.

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Best Overall Blog

Best New Blog (Established in 2003)

Best Group Blog

Best Foreign Blog

Merde In France

Best Humor Blog

Best Looking Blog

Snazzy Kat

Best Female Authored Blog (tie)

Best Liberal Blog

Best Conservative Blog

Best Media/Journalist Blog

Opinion Journal (Best Of The Web by James Taranto)

Best Ecosystem Higher Beings & Mortal Humans Blog

James Lileks

Best Ecosystem Playful Primates Blog

Citizen Smash

Best Ecosystem Large Mammals Blog

Best Ecosystem Marauding Marsupials Blog

Best Ecosystem Adorable Rodents Blog

Best Ecosystem Flappy Birds Blog

Best Ecosystem Slithering Reptiles Blog

Best Ecosystem Crawly Amphibians Blog

Best Ecosystem Flippery Fish Blog

Best Ecosystem Slimy Molluscs (and below) Blog

Jozjozjoz

Most Egregious Omission

Thanks to everyone who participated, those who have sent well wishes, and especially Michele, Cheyenne, and the King for their assistance.

Ecosystem categories are based on The Truth Laid Bear Blogoshpere Ecosystem that ranks blogs based on the number of other blogs linking to them. The rating levels use a evolutionary metaphor. I think most people liked the idea of competing against sites from the same TTLB Ecosystem level, but I think for next year we are going to need some better "awards show" names for those categories. I'm open to suggestions...

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Best Overall Blog
Best New Blog
(Established in 2003)
Best Group Blog
Best Foreign Blog
Best Humor Blog
Best Looking Blog
Best Female Authored Blog
Best Liberal Blog
Best Conservative Blog
Best Media/Journalist Blog

Best Ecosystem Higher Beings &
Mortal Humans Blog
Best Ecosystem Playful Primates Blog
Best Ecosystem Large Mammals Blog
Best Ecosystem Marauding Marsupials Blog
Best Ecosystem Adorable Rodents Blog
Best Ecosystem Flappy Birds Blog
Best Ecosystem Slithering Reptiles Blog
Best Ecosystem Crawly Amphibians Blog
Best Ecosystem Flippery Fish Blog
Best Ecosystem Slimy Molluscs (and below) Blog

And last but not least Most Egregious Omission

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Best Overall Blog

This category is for best overall blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. Jason Kottke has asked to be removed. At the time he had 2002 votes. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best Overall Blog?

Little Green Footballs	26.2%
Dive Into Mark (he blocked access from this page)	15.1%
InstaPundit	14.5%
Talking Points Memo	5.9%
Power Line	5.5%
Scripting News	5.1%
Lawrence Lessig	5.0%
Andrew Sullivan	5.0%
CalPundit	4.1%
The Volokh Conspiracy	3.2%
USS Clueless	3.1%
A Small Victory	2.7%
Boing Boing	2.2%
Gothamist	0.6%
kausfiles	0.5%
Buzzmachine	0.5%
megnut.com	0.3%
Joho the Blog	0.3%
Dynamist Blog	0.2%

Total votes: 12605

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Best New Blog (Established in 2003)

This category is for blogs started after December 1, 2002. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best New Blog (Established 2003)?

Allah Is In The House	37.6%
Healing Iraq	15.2%
Blackfive	7.4%
Electric Venom	6.2%
Outside The Beltway	4.8%
Rush Limbaughtomy	3.4%
Buzzstuff	3.3%
Baldilocks	3.1%
An Unsealed Room	3.1%
Suburban Blight	2.8%
Smitten	2.7%
Tenth-Muse	2.1%
Boomshock	1.8%
King Of Fools	1.7%
Matthew J. Stinson	1.0%
PoliBlog	1.0%
The S-Train Canvass	0.9%
Ilyka Damen	0.7%
Judicious Asininity	0.5%
The World Around You	0.4%

Total votes: 4608

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Best Group Blog

This category is for group blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

Note: Totals for some contestants have been adjusted. See this post for details.

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Best Group Blog?

The Volokh Conspiracy	20.6%
Powerline	16.8%
Crooked Timber	8.9%
Winds Of Change	8.1%
OxBlog	7.7%
MetaFilter	7.0%
Samizdata	6.3%
The Command Post	5.7%
Rantburg	5.4%
SilentRunning	1.9%
BlogCritics	1.8%
BushBlog	1.6%
Kuro5hin	1.6%
Silflay Hraka	1.4%
Fanblogs	1.1%
Jessica's Well	1.0%
JohnnyTheo.com	1.0%
Homewreckers	1.0%
SportsBlog	0.6%
WatchBlog	0.5%

Total votes: 5519

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Best Foreign Blog

This category is for foreign blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best Foreign Blog?

Merde in France	23.0%
Tim Blair	19.3%
Healing Iraq	14.2%
IsraPundit	9.6%
The Dissident Frogman	9.3%
Gweilo Diaries	3.8%
Fistful of Euros	3.6%
The Edge of England's Sword	3.1%
Bj�rn St�rk	2.5%
Dissecting Leftism	1.7%
Jivha - The Tongue	1.4%
Peaktalk	1.4%
What's New, Pussycat?	1.3%
Dancing With Dogs	1.2%
A Sassy lawyer in Philippine Suburbia	0.9%
Living In China	0.9%
Flying Chair	0.8%
The Peking Duck	0.8%
How to Save the World	0.6%
The Russian Dilettante	0.6%

Total votes: 3802

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Best Humor Blog

This category is for humor blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best Humor Blog?

Allah Is In The House	30.1%
Scrappleface	25.2%
IMAO	10.0%
Dave Barry	6.7%
Wit And Wisdom	5.2%
Giggle Chick	3.8%
Bunsen	2.9%
pickle juice	2.1%
Opinions You Should Have	1.9%
Girls Are Pretty	1.8%
Politburo Diktat	1.6%
Little Tiny Lies	1.6%
Where the Hell Was I?	1.5%
Anger Management	1.3%
The Illuminated Donkey	1.2%
Bloviating Inanities	1.0%
Sanity's Edge	0.9%
Solonor's Ink Well	0.6%
Mr. Mustard	0.4%
Bad Money	0.3%

Total votes: 5103

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Best Looking Blog

This category is for best looking blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best Looking Blog?

Snazzy Kat	11.2%
Africa Blog	9.7%
Orange Haired boy	7.6%
Sugar White Sand	7.6%
I don�t think	6.4%
Tenth Muse	6.0%
Doctor Grosz	5.5%
Blogumentary	5.5%
Inside Gretchen's Head	5.4%
Pixel Sphinx	5.0%
Mike Kelly	4.8%
Highly Moody	4.0%
The Notebook	4.0%
eclecticism	3.8%
tummy monsters	3.1%
Collected Miscellany	2.8%
Thoughtprints	2.5%
webguerillas	2.3%
in a groove	1.5%
Fringe	1.3%

Total votes: 1440

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Best Female Authored Blog

This category is for female authored blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best Female Authored Blog?

Meryl Yourish	18.9%
Asymmetrical Information	18.7%
Joanne Jacobs	7.7%
caoine	7.7%
Cut On The Bias	6.2%
moxie	6.0%
Serenity�s Journal	5.1%
this fish	5.0%
go fish	3.6%
Everyday Stranger	3.4%
Number 2 Pencil	3.2%
Aged & Confused	3.1%
Sugarmama	2.6%
Rabbit Blog	2.5%
petit hiboux	1.8%
feministe the pirate	1.8%
Jessica Lovejoy	0.9%
Reflections	0.8%
susan mernit's blog	0.6%
Netwoman	0.5%

Total votes: 3437

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Best Liberal Blog

This category is for liberal blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best Liberal Blog?

Michael J. Totten	17.4%
CalPundit	15.9%
Eschaton	13.5%
Talking Points Memo	13.0%
Matthew Yglesias	7.4%
The Daily Kos	7.0%
South Knox Bubba	4.6%
Crooked Timber	4.4%
Brad De Long	4.1%
Oliver Willis	3.6%
Amygdala	2.0%
skippy the bush kangaroo	1.6%
TalkLeft	1.6%
The Talking Dog	1.3%
The Sideshow	0.6%
Kieran Healy	0.5%
Lean Left	0.4%
AintNoBadDude	0.3%
The Left Coaster	0.3%
Antidotal	0.2%

Total votes: 2925

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Best Conservative Blog

This category is for conservative blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

Note: Totals for some contestants have been adjusted. See this post for details.

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Best Conservative Blog?

Hugh Hewitt	27.0%
Andrew Sullivan	15.0%
InstaPundit	9.7%
Eject! Eject! Eject!	7.9%
Citizen Smash	6.8%
Daniel Drezner	6.1%
Emperor Misha	5.2%
Right Wing News	4.2%
Tacitus	3.9%
One Hand Clapping	2.6%
Right-Thinking	2.4%
Sgt. Stryker	1.8%
Pejmanesque	1.5%
Ballon Juice	1.2%
The Spoons Experience	0.9%
On The Third Hand	0.9%
DailyPundit	0.8%
Zogby Blog	0.8%
Cold Fury	0.8%
Insults Unpublished	0.3%

Total votes: 5902

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Best Media/Journalist Blog

This category is for media/journalist blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best Media/Journalist Blog?

Opinion Journal (James Taranto)	33.2%
Hugh Hewitt	12.8%
The Corner	10.3%
Buzz Machine (Jeff Jarvis)	7.8%
kausfiles	5.1%
Tapped	4.8%
Dan Weintraub	4.0%
Romensko	3.9%
HobbsOnline A.M.	3.1%
Gawker	2.7%
Hit & Run	2.6%
First Draft (Tim Porter)	2.4%
Easterblogg	2.0%
Dan Gillmor	1.5%
Matt Welch	1.3%
Amy Langfield	1.2%
Press Think	0.5%
The Kicker	0.4%
L.A. Observed	0.3%
Howard Owens	0.2%

Total votes: 2932

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Best Higher Beings & Mortal Humans Ecosystem Level Blog

This category is for Higher Beings & Mortal Humans blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best Ecosystem Higher Beings & Mortal Humans Blog?

James Lileks	26.7%
Little Green Footballs	17.5%
USS Clueless	8.7%
Dean Esmay	6.2%
a small victory	6.1%
The Drudge Report	5.4%
Eschaton	5.0%
NRO: The Corner	4.0%
Daily Kos	3.0%
Matthew Yglesias	2.6%
Boing Boing	2.5%
Brad DeLong	2.4%
IMAO	2.1%
Truth Laid Bear	1.6%
Samizdata	1.5%
Scrappleface	1.4%
Right Wing News	1.0%
VodkaPundit	0.9%
Talk Left	0.8%
The New Republic & Company	0.6%

Total votes: 3747

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Best Playful Primates Ecosystem Level Blog

This category is for Playful Primates blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best Playful Primates Ecosystem Level Blog?

Citizen Smash	32.5%
Alas A Blog	11.2%
Gut Rumbles	8.7%
Kim du Toit	8.1%
VodkaPundit	6.8%
Electric Venom	5.2%
Virginia Postrel	5.1%
Meryl Yourish	4.9%
Outside The Beltway	3.1%
Whiskey Bar	2.1%
Daily Pundit	2.0%
Body and Soul	1.9%
Pandagon	1.6%
Orcinus	1.4%
Doc Searls	1.3%
Rittenhouse Review	1.2%
Mark Kleiman	0.9%
Nathan Newman	0.8%
MaxSpeak	0.7%
Ken Layne	0.4%

Total votes: 2237

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Best Large Mammals Ecosystem Level Blog

This category is for Large Mammals blogs. Nominations were taken in this post. See the FAQ for more contest information.

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Best Large Mammals Ecosystem Level Blog?

damnum absque injuria (Xrlq)	15.2%
Roger L. Simon	13.1%
ProfessorBainbridge.com	9.7%
Jay Solo	5.5%
Crescat Sententia	4.5%
Tiger: Rantin and Raggin	4.0%
Patriot Paradox	3.7%
Practical Penumbra	3.3%
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical	3.3%
Kesher Talk	3.2%