JIB Awards 2005: Important Announcements
Aussie Dave | Dec 27, 2005 | 10 comments
A number of important announcements:1. We have decided to push the voting back to January 9th. From January 2nd until this time, the nominated blogs will be displayed on the Jerusalem Post site, allowing readers to casually visit these blogs by clicking on their hyperlinks. This is conducive to the main aim of the awards – to increase general awareness of, and exposure to, Jewish, Israeli, and pro-Israel blogs.
The amended timeline is thus:
Jan 9th – 19th: Preliminary voting round on JPost.com
Jan 24th – Feb 2nd: Final voting round on JPost.com
Feb 7th: Winners announced.
Jan 24th – Feb 2nd: Final voting round on JPost.com
Feb 7th: Winners announced.
2. We have decided to relax the category requirements, due to the preponderance of nominated blogs that do not fit snugly into any one category, but do somehow deal with topics fitting into multiple categories (an issue that many of you raised with me). Thus, for a nominated blog to be eligible for a category, it need only deal with the relevant topic (e.g. politics, personal, culture, religion) to a more than insignificant extent (rather than the former requirement of dealing predominantly with the topic). This is an entirely subjective test, based on general impression, and the determination will be made by the Jerusalem Post and myself.
3. Finally, many of you have stumbled upon a Jerusalem Post test page showing the final cut of “nominees.” Some of you even posted a link to it. This is not the final page, nor does it show the final list of nominees. It is merely a test page used by the Post to experiment with some formats. Many of the shown blogs may not be in the final cut, and some other blogs may be included, after we have evaluated their eligiblity and nomination link format requirements.
Please do not email me to ask why you did not make the final cut. Either your nominations were not in the correct format, or you did not fit the category.
About the Author
An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: JIB Awards 2005
Pushing back the voting? Did gunmen take over the JIB offices demanding jobs or something?
-ls
Sounds good. Appreciate your efforts on this!
Please accept my humble apology. I took the link down awaiting your word that it’s complete and accurate.
I’m one, and I know there are many others, that really appreciates your efforts on this. It’s great exposure to the world of Jewish blogs. I added a few to the blogroll last year and have found a few mroe this year.
I’d like to think my site visitors have increased a bit because of the exposure, I know I’ve read a bunch more Jewish blogs because of your efforts in creating the awards.
Again, many thanks, and I’m sorry for jumping the gun on the JPost test page.
When I took a look at the blogs that were listed I was wondering about whether this was finalized or not. My over inflated ego was concerned because my own blog wasn’t listed.
You are doing a good job with this.
Jack,
I have a feeling you did not make it because none of your nominations were in the correct format (i.e. blog name and then hyperlinked URL) as I mentioned on numerous occasions.
Hi David,
Then I am confused. Are you saying that the nomination on this page was done incorrectly?
Because what I see is the blog name followed by the hyperlinked URL.
I just figured it out, you are still upset because I made those comments about those girly men who play Australian football. Don’t worry about it, we can still teach you the rules of American football and then you can root for a real sport.
Jack,
Read the nomination requirements again. Blog name hyperlinked is wrong! Blog URL hyperlinked was required.
Regarding Aussie Rules football, we both know which sport does not involve the players wearing padding
David,
I read the rules a couple of times and I see a dozen blogs on the JPost page whose nomination format mirrors mine so there is some inconsistency here which is what confused me.
I am not trying to be difficult but that is what throws me. All I wanted to do is throw my name in the hat to see what happened.
As for which sport wears padding and which does not well that is just indicative of intelligence or lack thereof.
Jack,
If you can please provide one example via email, I will check into it. I certainly don’t want inconsistency. But I won’t be allowing incorrectly formatted submissions sorry. Too much work involved, and the ground rules were set.
I never claimed Aussie Rules players were smart