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.

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!

The finalists for the 2008 Weblog Awards have been announced.

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.

Thousands of nominations in dozens of categories. They are in the process of adding links to the blogs listed in the announcement. Congratulations to the finalists. Get ready to vote.

It’s nearly that time again. Nominations for the 2008 Weblog Awards begin Monday, November 3rd.

You can go on over now to grab some badges and see the proposed categories.

I feel really good about this year.

Voting has started in the 2007 Weblog Awards.

The first group of finalists for the 2007 Weblog Awards have been announced.

Here is a partial list of the finalists for The 2007 Weblog Awards. Finalists badges (hosted by Imageshack) will be available Thursday. Voting is scheduled to begin Thursday evening (late), but at this point we can’t pinpoint the exact time polls will open. Check back Thursday afternoon for updates on poll openings.

The TTLB ecosystem categories (another 90 finalists) will be announced Thursday. If you’re not a finalist there’s still hope…

Fingers crossed.

Quick! Nominate your favorite blog for the 2007 Weblog Awards!

It snuck up on me this year, but you have the rest of today to nominate your favorite blog in one of 49 categories, including “Best of the Top 501 – 1000 Blogs” (TTLB Ranking) .

Help me fix the car and get back on the road!

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Thanks!