A blog award is an award for the best

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in a given category. Some blog awards are based on a public vote and others are based on a fixed set of criteria applied by a panel of judges. Blog awards are a descendant phenomenon from awards given by

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users during the 1990s. These awards had titles such as "Top Site of the Nite" and were bestowed in the form of a

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embedded on the site's

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page.

Process

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awarding committees, blog awards are started by a certain body, usually composed of blog enthusiasts. Since blogging is an

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activity, most of the process is done online. Nominees are usually accepted from anyone in the Internet as long as the one who nominates adheres to given policies and procedures. The nominated websites, varying from independent servers to provider hosted are scanned by a selected team of

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s. The filtered nominees are then announced online or by other means such as

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. Other

bloggers A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...

or Internet users are given the opportunity to vote for several categories such as Best Single Post, Best Blog Site, Best Design, and others. The winners are announced in a ceremonial night usually held in large venues and online. There are also blog awards initiated by small groups of bloggers in certain locations. The nomination and selection process is usually the same with major awarding bodies but the awarding is usually less extravagant.

Major awards

Among the major blog awards are

The Weblog Awards (Bloggies) The Weblog Awards, nicknamed the Bloggies, was an annual non-profit blog awards that began in 2001. Until its end in 2015, it was the longest running and one of the largest blog awards, with winners determined through internet voting by the pub ...

, and

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(Best of Blogs). The bestower of the BOBs, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, describes their awards as "the world’s largest international blog competition". Awarded since 2004, the BOBs are selected by an "international jury of independent journalists, media experts and blog experts".

The Weblog Awards (Wizbang) The Weblog Awards, presented by Kevin Aylward's Wizbang LLC A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a part ...

ran from 2003-2008.

Defunct awards

The UK newspaper ''

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'' ran a Best British Blog competition in 2002 and another in 2003, but then stopped because of limited enthusiasm from the UK blogging community and a few public boycotts.Weblog competition a 'bloody stupid idea'
Guardian, 2002-07-29

References

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