The Ninjamatics' 2012 Canadian Weblog Awards Nominees Are Here

We (the Palinode and Schmutzie) have worked our way through the 885 nominations that were submitted over 2012 for the Ninjamatics' 2012 Canadian Weblog Awards, and we finished just in time to greet the new year and begin the jury process. That's right, there were 885 nominations. Not too shabby, Canada.



After thinning the list — during which we removed duplicate nominations, foreign dating sites, and non-Canuck submissions — we came up with our list of 468 impressive nominees. FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT. That's nothing to sneeze at.

Allow us to introduce all 468 Ninjamatics' 2012 Canadian Weblog Awards nominees!

Blogging Canada, we officially love you.

What happens next? We will organize our volunteer jury members, and each nominated blog will be judged by at least three jury members using our ten criteria. There will be two jury rounds; the first round will decide the top five blogs in each category, which will be announced on January 15th, and the second round will decide the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places in each category, which will be announced on January 31st.

So, all of our nominees can sit back and relax. There is no shilling for votes here.

Let the adjudicating begin!

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PS. If you were notified of your nomination but don't see your name on our list of nominees, please let us know! Rest assured you are still on our master list for the jurors, but a couple of technical glitches yesterday means that there may be a couple of corrections necessary on our public blogroll.

Comments

[dave hingsburger]

Thanks for the email notifying me of my nominations in Disability and Lifetime Acheivement ... I don't see my blog on the nomination list however - was the email an error or are the blogs not all yet listed on the nomination list? Thanks for all your work on this.

[schmutzie]

Dave, thanks for the heads up! You were still definitely on all our master lists, but we've now made sure to add you to our public blogroll.

[ACR]

Thank you so much guys! This is an honour, never thought we would come this far and be recognized - So many great blogs, good luck to everyone!

- CM
Atlantic Canada Rocks

[Pete]

Hello.
Thanks for setting this up. I've noticed that my blog is nominated in 2 places - not sure if that's okay or makes sense. It's a music blog, and it's under 1) Best Weblog About Pop Culture & Entertainment and 2) Best Topical Weblog (for weblogs that fit within a particular niche not covered by other categories).

So it's entertainment, perhaps not so much pop culture, so I don't know if it's a waste of time to keep it in the topical weblog list, too? I'm fine with whatever you decide, but thought I would point it out.

[schmutzie]

Pete, Pop Culture & Entertainment is where music blogs go, but I took yours out of Topical, as you were right about the poor fit. Thanks!

[Robin@Farewell, Stranger]

Foreign dating sites? Sigh. They never quit, do they?

That's exciting about so many nominations!

[Kristen]

So honored to have made it this far. Thank you so much for putting me in a category with so many other wonderful bloggers:)

[dave hingsburger]

Thanks for updating the list and thanks for all the work that goes into this. Amazing.

[Yvette]

Thank you! I am greatly honoured and touched by the nomination! :)