I really don't want to step in this, but I should mention it: Bloggies controversy "of the nominees, as far as i know, the majority may well be there because of popular vote. there are about 5 or 6 nominees that should not be there because of unscrupulous tactics. would these have been nominated otherwise? I personally doubt it but now we and they will never know."

This is the dark side of blogging - the popularity contest, the high school attitude that there must be a hierarchy, and the bitterness that flows from those that feel they've been excluded from the "cool" people. I won't comment on the accusations, but I will say, apart from a few stellar examples of brilliant blogging, mostly from veteran bloggers, most of the nominees while they deserve recognition, really don't appeal to me. I'll admit, many of these I haven't read before, and I'm judging them on one look, but I can't see why there's so many blogs nominated that do nothing but babble about buffy or some reality show. I love the inane as much as anyone, but there are way too many smart, funny, knowledgable, enlightening writers out there, and I hope that people inside and outside the blogosphere won't ignore them when a handful get all the attention.