Towleroad wins 2008 Weblog Award for Best LGBT Blogby: Pam SpauldingWed Jan 14, 2009 at 03:42:31 AM EST |
| Results should be certified by Wednesday night, but the runaway vote-getter from day one in the Best LGBT Blog category of the 2008 Weblog Awards was Towleroad, finishing up 37% of the vote. Congrats!
Last year the award was given out at Blogworld in the same calendar year, so I'm not certain when Andy Towle will receive the Styrofoam posterboard winner's "plaque" like the one I picked up for Joe Jervis when Joe.My.God won the category in 2007. *** BTW, the Blend came in a distant fourth (8.9%), behind The Bilerico Project and Joe.My.God. Not an unexpected showing, given I didn't campaign, and actually, that's a better finish than I thought, since a whole day of voting opportunity was effectively lost when Soapblox was hacked and PHB was toast. Readers would have had to go out of their way to vote, since PHB's front page with the handy link was inaccessible. I didn't bother reminding folks to vote once back online either since, well, dodging the full-blown loss of four years of work and a platform in crisis had my mind, well, elsewhere. So many thanks for the 2,848 votes cast for the Blend, and congrats to my fellow finalists. BTW, the latest update from Soapblox is here. |
