After my out of touch week, I am about through playing catch up. I’ve waded through pages of email, spam, and a very full feed reader, performed maintenance on my various blogs (including all the spam registrations at The Regiment), watched some football, hockey, and three out of the first four hours of 24.

I have to watch the fourth hour before hour five tonight. And speaking of hour five, be sure that you join the crew at the best 24 site anywhere — Blogs.4Bauer.com. Make sure that you remember to join us for the Season 8: 8 pm to 9 pm liveblogging event.

One of the other things I missed were two episodes of bRight@Night. I’ll take care of that immediately following Jack. More on that later.

Now, on with the show.

The 2009 Weblog Awards have been canceled.

It is with a great deal of regret that I must inform everyone that The 2009 Weblog Awards are canceled.

Unfortunately the resources required to handle the load of voting (nearly 1,000,000 votes in 2008) could not be adequately provisioned. Even if the servers and bandwidth required appeared today it would be at least a few weeks before everything could be ready for voting.

It is sad, but understandable, why Kevin had to cancel the awards. I hope that the issues can be worked out to start them again in 2010.

Want to follow me on Twitter? There’s more involved than you might think. I have multiple twitter accounts for the various blogs. Here they are:

• bRight & Early — @brightandearly
• Reclaim Conservatism — @ReclaimCons
• Blog News Co-op — @blognewscoop
• FloridImagine — @FloridImagine
• The Regiment — @Marblehead_Reg

While you’re out and about on the inter tubes, please go over and sign up at The Regiment. My goal is to have people from all 50 states actively involved in the first half of 2010. Just 48 to go!

WordPress version 2.9 has been released, which means I’ve been busy getting my publishing empire upgraded.

• bRight & Early — Done
• FloridImagine.com — Done
• Floridimagine.com/blog — Done
• Blog News Coop — Done
• Reclaim Conservatism — Done
• Blogs4Bauer — Done

That should do it for now. I’m going to bed.

And I’m up again. Meant to add the links last night. I’ve done so now.

It’s time for the

Nominations are going on now. Here’s the schedule:

Nominations Nov. 3, 2009 – Nov. 20, 2009
Finalists Announced December 28, 2009
Voting January 4, 2010 – January 11, 2009

bRight & Early is in the Best Large Blog category. I don’t know how. Go by and up my nomination by clicking on the plus sign in the comments below my nomination. It’s near the bottom of the comment section.

One more week for nominations. Get to it people!

Ace and DrewM have an idea. One question is “where”? If you don’t like the choices in the poll (located in the right sidebar) leave a comment here.

I would love to put together a Twitter list of AoSHQ morons. If you’re on Twitter, let me know in the comments or follow me @bRigthandEarly. I’ll post a link later.

One Thousand Five Hundred and Two. That’s the number of pages in the Bogus, er Baucus “Health Care Reform” Bill. Health Care Reform is in scar quotes because the bill is not about Health Care nor Reform. It is about power. Government power. If there were a truth in advertising law that applied to legislation the title might be the “Government Power Grab and Intrusion Into Health Decisions” bill. Whatever.

The PDF is here.

It has been suggested that the blogosphere look at the bill in small pieces. There is a site (that I don’t have time to track down right now. Someone in the comments?) that has suggested that you take the last three digits of your Social Security number and analyze that page. Of course that suggestion was made before page count came in at a grand and a half.

Here is my suggestion: For the first two numbers take your birthday and divide by two. Round down. For example, if you were born on the 1st the first two numbers would be 00. If, like me, you were born on the 26th the first two numbers would be 13. For the last two numbers take a look at my sitemeter counter. As I write this the last two numbers are 50. I will be reading page 1350. Get it? Good.

Now, leave a comment and let me know what page you will be examining. And please spread the word. We need (at least) 1502 of you to do the work the legacy media will either not do, or not do well. Are you up to it?

(h/t to Don Surber for the PDF link)

Yes, bRight & Early is where I do the majority of my writing, but it’s not the only place. Consider this a PSA for the other sites I work on. They need a variety of things, but mostly more eyes.

Reclaim Conservatism — http://reclaimconservatism.com/blog is a group effort with the aim of reclaiming conservative values. We are looking for bloggers (frequent or not so much) to contribute on that theme. You can follow @ReclaimCons on Twitter.

Blog News Co-op — http://blognewscoop.com/blog/ is a great idea that needs a push. I’m looking for original reporting by bloggers to use in a shared setting. That’s why our tag line is “by bloggers, for bloggers.” I’m looking for bloggers who want to contribute stories that other bloggers can use and link to. The only criteria is that it has to be original reporting rather than commenting on the writings of someone else. It doesn’t have to be a big national story. Coverage of a local council race or regional news story, interviews with local politicians or celebrities, and even your personal coverage of local events are all the type of stories I’m looking for. You can follow @BlogNewsCoop on Twitter.

FloridImagine.com — http://floridimagine.com/blog/ is my business site for web hosting and design, specializing in setting up WordPress blogs for others. Of course I do other sites as well. It is also a site for Florida news and information. I am looking for people who would like to write on Florida sports, events, news, people, and attractions. If you are a writer from here in the Sunshine State please let me know if you are interested in contributing. And if you are a blogger ready to move to your own domain or someone looking for a web site, please get in contact. On Twitter you can follow @FloridImagine.

Last, and far from least, is a blog I didn’t start but I am proud to be a part of — Blogs4Bauer — http://blogs.4bauer.com As you probably know, this is a site for all of you 24 fans. Season eight will be starting in January, and Blogs4Bauer will once again be the most irreverent fan site out there. The unique combination of snark and dedication is always a lot of fun. And while the real fun starts when the clock starts ticking on yet another long day in Jack Bauer’s life, we don’t rest during the “off season.” Casting news and other tidbits are up all year long. Check us out.

Well, that’s the roundup. Check out those other sites and see what’s going on there. Hopefully you’ll find something interesting, or even somewhere that you can contribute.

John Hawkins reached out to Right of Center bloggers for their choices of the most respected people on the right.

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-10 unranked selections and were allowed to choose anybody on the Right or generally perceived to be on the right that they liked: Republican, Conservative, Libertarian, politician, preacher, blogger, columnist, radio host, you name it!

I didn’t take the time to respond as I was working through the computer issues here at home. I don’t see anyone on the list that I couldn’t have put there, and the order wouldn’t have changed much with my contribution. Fred Thompson and Bobby Jindal would have moved up a spot from their seven person tie for 16th, and Ed Morrissey would have jumped up one position as well.

The top five would have remained the same, but each would have one more tally.

Take a look at the list and let me know who you would have had on your list.

Like most of you I have been following the news from Honduras. I can’t come close to the excellent coverage that Fausta has been providing, so I point you there.

#Honduras: Zelaya postpones his trip back “for the weekend”

Honduras: What was on the referendum ballots printed in Venezuela

Honduras defends its democracy

and

Coup in Honduras – Correction: This is NOT a coup

Thanks for the great work Fausta!

I know you don’t have anything better to do this morning. Instead of reading another pundit talking about Mark “Gaucho” Sanford or looking at the All Barack Chanel informercial transcript, head over to Common Sense Political Thought. Dana and the gang are about to pass 200000 visits.

They’re only 85 away. Hurry, time is running out.