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Michael Turton and his race for the best Taiwan politics blog (go vote) got me motivated to put up a small blog awards for our little blogosphere. Hope you’ll like the idea and would want to take part.

Information is posted here : http://www.taiwanderful.net/blog/taiwan-best-blog-awards-2008

Voting will begin on the 1/10 and will close 31/10, registration of blogs that wish to participate is always open.

Hopefully, our Taiwan blogosphere will have some good cross-blog promotion fun and help boost some of the lesser known Taiwan blogs.

Following is the post I wrote on Taiwanderful:

To celebrate the Taiwan blogosphere excellence we’re suggesting a small Taiwan Best Blog title award among the Taiwan blogs registered at the Taiwanderful Taiwan Blog directory.

Taiwan Blog Award features

All Taiwan blogs registered at Taiwanderful can participate. If your blog doesn’t show up at Taiwanderful, then sign up for a username and simply add it to the directory. Registered blog owners may edit their blog’s details at any time.

The Taiwan Blog Awards will also have category-based awards, to match the Taiwanderful Taiwan Blog categories (providing that there is more than one blog in the category) –

• Best Education Blog
• Best General Blog
• Best “Other” Blog
• Best Personal Blog
• Best Photography Blog
• Best Politics Blog
• Best Religion Blog
• Best Travel Blog
• Best Video-Podcast Blog

Method

There are no judges and no nominations. This Taiwan Blog Awards is only based on voting and if you have a Taiwan blog registered at Taiwanderful then you’re in.

The voting implemented is a positive Digg style voting mechanism (no minuses "-" or "bury"), which allows all visitors to vote for all their favorite Taiwan blogs. Every visitor can contribute one vote per blog for as many Taiwan blogs as they like. The blog that gets the most votes within a certain category is declared "The best Taiwan <category> blog".

Support

Support is given through the “troubleshooting and FAQ” forum on Taiwanderful.

Taiwan Blog Awards Schedule

The Taiwan Blog Awards will work according to the following schedule :

• Till 30/09/2008 - Taiwan blogs that haven’t registered to Taiwanderful can still be added till the end of the month to allow a fair start for all. Existing Taiwanderful blogs may change their categorization, description, tags etc. to help promote their blogs.
• From 01/10/2008 till 31/10/2008 - Voting will open for all. Blogs may still register during this process.
• 11/2007 – Voting closed. Best Taiwan Blogs announced.

Voting

Voting will open on the 01/10 and will appear on all blogs on Taiwanderful. You’re invited to take a look at all the blogs registered at Taiwanderful sorted by categories. More information available on the frontpage.

Registering a new blog at Taiwanderful

For those who would like to add their Taiwan blog to the community for the Taiwan Blog Awards 2008 - You can add your Taiwan blog to the community after registering and signing in. 

Taiwan Blog Awards notes

• It is highly recommended for blog owners to login to Taiwanderful and edit their blog’s description to add an introduction. It is also recommended that an image or logo be added to the blog description to attract readers and voting.
• Blog Awards are great for promoting link-love between the Taiwan blogs. If you write a blog and you like a certain blog then link to it asking your readers to vote for it. Link-love between the Taiwan blogs helps promote the whole Taiwan blogosphere and Taiwan related content on the web.
• This whole thing is just for fun! Like any system, I’m sure that the system can be abused, but I’m counting on the general good of the Taiwan blogosphere that this will not happen.
• My personal blog appears on Taiwanderful but will not be counted for the Taiwan Blog Awards.
• This is the first time Taiwanderful is running the Taiwan Blog Awards. Any suggestions, comments or ideas are very welcome.

Badges

We have the following Taiwan Blog Awards 2008 badges for you to use in anyway you like :

Update 2008/09/15 - David Reid has issued the following press release :

Media release
15 September 2008
for immediate release

Announcing the 2008 Taiwan Blog Awards

Taiwanderful has announced the 2008 Taiwan Best Blog Awards. The awards are for English-language blogs related to Taiwan in eight categories.
Registration will take place over September, voting in October and the results will be announced in November.

There are hundreds of bloggers writing about Taiwan in English. The English language bloggers in Taiwan contribute some of the most comprehensive up-to-date information about the real Taiwan on a wide range of topics, from travel through politics to culture. The blogs combine personal commentary, photography and video.

The blog awards are intended as a tribute to these devoted bloggers. Their blogs are a unique form of promotion for Taiwan.

Full details of the awards available at http://www.taiwanderful.net/blog/taiwan-best-blog-awards-2008

Since I’m organizing the whole thing and am an admin on the site, then I won’t be taking part.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.