Your Help, Please: Blog Awards
Okay readers, I need your help.
Brian from MGoBlog and Joel from Rocky Top Talk are putting together the first ever College Football Blog Awards, presented by the BlogPoll. (Take a moment to read the introduction to how the awards will work.) Now, I know most of you don't read hundreds of blogs each day, like I do - hey, it's part of my job - and I wouldn't expect you to.
But. I do need some help. Putting together these awards is a two-step process.
1) Figure out what the categoires should be.
2) Name the categories.
And that's where I need your help. We need to put together a complete list of categories for blogs to be nominated in - ranging from "Best Blog" to "Funniest Blog" to "Best Writing" and so on. We also need creative names for these things. Because we're bloggers. We're cutsie like that.
Anyway, y'all are often far more creative and imaginative than we are, which means your input is pretty crucial here. Below you'll find a list of categories - some with proposed cutsie names, some without. Your task is to fill in the blanks with categories you think of that ought to be in there, as well as to throw out proposed clever names for these things. One note before we dive in: these awards are all going to be positive awards, so you can go ahead and withhold that "Chevy Chase Memorial 'Your Blog Was So Good At The Beginning But Now You Suck' Award" that you were going to propose.
| Proposed Category | Proposed Name |
|---|---|
| Best Blog, Overall | The Burnt Orange Nation Award In Excellence (Okay, kidding. Any suggestions?) |
| Funniest Blog | ???? (I'm not that funny.) |
| Best Writing | The "You'd Never Get Hired By CBS Sportsline" Award |
| Best Invective Writer | The "Damn, You Should Have Gone Into Hip Hop" Award |
| Best Analysis | The "Baseball Prospectus" Award (Too obscure, I know. Help?) |
| Most Thought Provoking | The "Malcolm Gladwell" Award |
| Best Site Design | ???? |
| Best Blog Network | ???? |
| Best "Mid-Major Blog" | From my own awards last year: The "Your Team Sucks, But Your Blog Doesn't" Award |
| Best Watchdog Blog | The FAIR.org Award |
| Best Team Blog | ???? |
| Best General CFB Blog | ???? |
Okay, readers. Help me out. This is just a starting point. What other categories need to be included? And, for God's sake, help me out with some creative names. Much appreciated.
One final note, readers: these awards are going to be open to any blog that covers college football - not just members of the BlogPoll. It'd be nice if we could come up with an award category that we could nominate 54b for. His weekly game summaries are among the best reads anywhere, week in, week out.
--PB--
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Categories and cutesie names...
Cutesie name: Armchair Quarterback Club Award
Best site design award cutesie name could be something along the lines of: Best Alternative to Porn Award
by HED on Nov 29, 2006 8:21 AM CST 0 recs
EDSBS &
by UT2001 on Nov 29, 2006 8:22 AM CST 0 recs
Just choosing categories for now
Still, you're right. Those two blogs are (easily) #1 and #1a in terms of constant hilarity. They offer more funny content in a week than I could muster in an entire year.
by PB @ BON on
Nov 29, 2006 8:25 AM CST
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What's the difference between...
by patienthornsfan on Nov 29, 2006 8:35 AM CST 0 recs
Another Category Suggestion
Boring Naming Suggestions:
Gridiron Genius Award
Hardwood Hero Award
by patienthornsfan on Nov 29, 2006 8:39 AM CST 0 recs
Only CFB
by PB @ BON on
Nov 29, 2006 8:46 AM CST
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Duh....
by patienthornsfan on
Nov 29, 2006 8:57 AM CST
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Funniest Blog
Jerry Lewis comes to mind, but then I thought Dennis Miller, because of the style and content of his humor as well as the MNF tie-in.
The Dennis Miller Award?
by patienthornsfan on Nov 29, 2006 9:15 AM CST 0 recs
funniest blog:
by billyzane on Nov 29, 2006 9:18 AM CST 0 recs
also, you should have these awards:
and
The Sports Night Award for the Best Blog That You're Not Reading
Okay, maybe those names are lame, but i definitely think there should at least be an award for best new blog.
by billyzane on Nov 29, 2006 9:29 AM CST 0 recs
Best General CFB Blog
by GoHorns on Nov 29, 2006 9:32 AM CST 0 recs
Blog Awards
I don't really visit many other blog sites... I guess I'm monogablogamous! (groan...)
by Margaritaking on Nov 29, 2006 1:07 PM CST 0 recs
What about best post
Also, best comments to a post, where instead of the story being voted on, the blog submitts the comments that were posted and that is voted on.
by Wells on Nov 29, 2006 2:29 PM CST 0 recs
What balls
Still my background as well
by aorist9 on
Nov 30, 2006 11:07 PM CST
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Somehow
Beautiful!
by VYdisciple on
Nov 30, 2006 11:42 PM CST
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