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Announcing The First European Weblog Awards
Today is a good day because I get to announce The First European Weblog Awards. The purpose of the awards is to recognize the efforts and contributions of Europe’s many talented bloggers, to maybe help build a sense of community among us, and, more than anything, it’s a chance for people to discover lots of new good blogs.
Also, awards are fun.
Categories chronologically:
Thursday:
Best European Weblog Overall
Best Political Weblog
Best UK Blog
Friday:
Nominees for Best French Weblog
Nominate Best New Weblog
Nominees for Best German Blog
Saturday:
Nominate Best Non-European Weblog
Nominate Best Culture Weblog
Nominate Best Tech Weblog
Nominees for Best Personal Weblog
Sunday
Nominees for Best Expat Blog
Best Coverage of A Single Country or Region
Nominate Most Underappreciated Weblog
Monday
Nominees for Best Coverage of the European Union
Nominees for Best Southeastern European Weblog
Nominees for Best CIS blog
Nominees for Best Writing
Rules:
You can nominate as many blogs as you like. Please don’t be shy about nominating your own blog.
There’ll be a post for each category. Nominations should preferably be in the form of comments or trackbacks to the relevant post.
Only European blogs are elegible. By that we mean that the blog should be written by Europeans, or else focus on some European issue. (Czech, Catalan…)
This weblog is not eligible for any awards, but our contributors’ other blogs are.
The nominating phase will go on for several weeks. The finalists will be determined by the number of nominations and our discretion.
We’ll introduce categories gradually during the day, and maybe tomorrow throughout the week. I will update this post with links to the nomination posts.
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It would have to be a pretty big fist
A warm welcome to the latest additions to our collective, Claudia and Doug Muir.
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This is the 500th entry at A Fistful of Euros. Onward to M.
That is all.
Teething Troubles (comment system unavailable)
As appropriate for every one year old, afoe is currently experiencing some children’s disease. As you might have noticed, due to some still obscure reason, our MT installation has ceased accepting comments at some point on Wednesday.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Please bear with us as you would with your own toddler ;).
UPDATE: It seems the comments work again.
A good year
Today is the first anniversary of this weblog.
I have to say things worked out pretty well.
Happy birthday to us.
Anniversary
Missed an anniversary. Yesterday, it was six months since the blog was launched.
We’d like to thank the Academy
We were happy when AFOE was nominated for a Koufax Award, so we’re even happier to learn that we’re in the final seven for Best Group Blog. Thanks to everyone who’s nominated or voted for us and we hope to live up to your expectations over the next year!
Links to comments
We like to keep on top of the latest in high tech here at AFOE. So, thanks to our crack AFOE research and development team, you can now create links directly to comments on this blog by using the URL you get by clinking on the comment’s data and time.
AFOE Labs appreciates the support it has received for this challenging, ground-breaking software engineering development project. Calpundit had nothing to with it. Honest.
Greetings from the Guest
As David mentions below, the kind people at Fistful… have invited me in and asked me to do a guestblogging stint, in the (vain) expectation that I might have something interesting to say about things European.
For people who haven’t stumbled across me before, I blog over at the Virtual Stoa, was the subject of a recent Normblog profile, and spend my days teaching politics at Magdalen College in Oxford — though my expertise, such as it is, is in topics in pre-20th century history of political thought rather than in anything useful (contemporary European politics and society, for example).
I’ve enjoyed reading Fistful… from time to time since its launch last year, and was very pleased to see A Fistful of Dynamite aka Duck, You Sucker, aka Once Upon a Time in the Revolution again over Christmas in Berkeley, CA. And I’m now the proud co-owner of an almost authentic-looking Sergio Leone-style duster coat, so I’m feeling especially qualified right now to contribute to the discussions here.
Before I close this introductory post, do check out, if you haven’t already, Scott Martens’s superlative summary of the argument of Karl Marx’s 1843 essay, On the Jewish Question, which appears in the comments to this recent post: it’s a patient and accurate summary of a complex and much-misunderstood text which deserves a bit more prominence than it gets buried away at the end of a long comments thread. Good stuff, Scott.
Right, more soon.