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Tag Archives: General management
Gone Fishin’
Not that I’ve been all that prolific lately (having lots of work is better than the alternative, but it does cut into the blogging), but I’ll wrap two big projects this week and then head off for two weeks of fishing bicycling in Switzerland.
Mostly downhill, of course.
Fun With Maps
For those of you who aren’t in the habit of reading the fine print in the left-hand column — especially the one-third who can’t tell us apart in the current poll results — this is an invitation to add your location to the frappr map of afoe readers. Join your peers from Wellington, New Zealand to Kailua, Hawaii, more than a dozen European countries and even exotic places like Kansas and Texas (you know who you are). David set the map up last October, and it’s neat to see where folks are.
Blogads survey
If you like AFOE, you can take this survey from blogads.com. It will only take a minute, and will make our advertisers happy. If you do, write A Fistful of Euros (those exact words – and spelling) as the answer to question #23.
My latest harebrained idea
A Few Euros More is not quite on hiatus, but clearly on the backburner right now. I thought I’d use this opportunity to do a little experiment. Anyone who feels like it is invited to post on AFEM this week. Just drop me a line at editors at fistfulofeuros.eu and I will give you access to the blog. Yes, you heard me, anyone who asks gets to post, until we tire of you.
MD
Winners of the 2nd Satin Pajama Awards
Here are the winners of the 2nd Annual European Weblog Awards, also known as the Satin Pajamas:
Most Underappreciated Weblog: Metamorphism by Mig
Best Central European Weblog: All About Latvia by Aleks
Best Expat Weblog: Petite Anglaise by Petite
Best Personal Weblog: Petite Anglaise by Petite
Best French Weblog: Journal d’un avocat by Eolas
Best German Weblog: Atlantic Review by various
Best UK Weblog: A Welsh View by Robert Gale
Best CIS Blog: Neeka’s Backlog by Veronica Khokhlova
Best Southeastern European Blog: Argumente by Dragos Novac
Best Culture Weblog: Amateur d’art by Lunettes Rouges
Best Writing: Bric a blog by the widow Tarquine
Best New Weblog: La Poulette by Poulette
Best Humor Weblog: My Boyfriend Is A Twat by Zoe
Best Non-European Weblog: 3 Quarks Daily by various
Best Expert or Scholar Weblog: Early Modern Notes by Sharon Howard
Best Political Weblog: European Tribune by various
Life Time Achievement Award: Neil Gaiman
and finally (drumroll) …
Best Weblog: Neil Gaiman’s Journal by Neil Gaiman
You can still see all the finalists and their share of votes on the award page. They’re all worth a visit. Last years winners are here.
Congratulations, everyone!
Update (by Tobias) – here’s a little badge for the winning blogs to display their success at the polls. Congrats, you got yourself a Satin Pajama!
Satin Pajamas
I’m finally done, about three weeks too late. Go vote.
Btw, we lost the page for last years awards, but you can look at it here.
…The polls will close on Friday.
…20:00.
Update (by Tobias, 23:43 CET) – I’ve seen some nominees use screenshots of our lovely satin pajama wearing teddy bear in order to visually enhance a post about their nomination, but that’s clearly not overly convenient. So I’ve made three banners in different sizes. I hope that one of them fits your needs. You can find the banners below the fold.
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The Second Annual Satin Pajama Awards
…The Satin Pajamas have been delayed because of the webhost migration and some other unforeseen things. The voting will begin soon, within a week at least, so I’ll bump this post again.
‘Tis the season of blog awards, among them our own European Weblog Awards or Satin Pajamas.
Last year I wrote: 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.
Last year’s awards did just that, and they were great fun. I’m sure this year will be no different.
…I really should clarify the rules. A blog is eligible if it’s written by Europeans or has a European (Czech, Catalan…) theme. Our own blogs aren’t eligible. Finalists are chosen based on the number of nominations as well as editorial discretion. So you want to nominate your favored blog even if someone else already mentioned it.
…Bumped.
Nominees for Best Southeastern European Weblog
Nominees for Best CIS blog
Nominees for Best Writing
Nominate Best Culture Weblog
Nominees for Best Personal Weblog
Nominate Best New Weblog
Nominees for Best European Weblog Overall
Nominate Best Political Weblog
Nominate Most Underappreciated Weblog
Nominees for Best German Blog
Nominees for Best French Weblog
Nominate Best UK Blog
Nominees for Best Expat Blog
Nominate Best Academic Weblog
On the road again…
Gentle readers, the 2006 Satin Pajama voting period is approaching and we have a couple of great things in the afoe r&d pipeline, which we will tell you more about soon. But for all this we needed a less error prone server. So we’re on the road again, and thus, there’s a certain probability you might have problems accessing afoe and afem during the period of DNS propagation, which will probably begin Thursday night.
Update, 23:10 CET – Our comment function has been disabled temporarily to ensure database integrity during the move.
Update, 00:45 CET – Comment functionality has been reenabled.