2009 Catholic New Media Awards
I have been remiss in not thanking those who voted for me in this years Catholic New Media Awards.
Best Blog by a Man
American Papist: Not Your Average Catholic: 223
What Does the Prayer Really Say?: 144
The Curt Jester: 65
Fallible Blogma: 55
Catholic and Enjoying It: 33
Funniest Blog
American Papist: Not Your Average Catholic: 107
The Curt Jester: 103
What Does the Prayer Really Say?: 86
Creative Minority Report: 73
lolSaints: 54
Most Entertaining Blog
American Papist: Not Your Average Catholic: 123
What Does the Prayer Really Say?: 115
The Curt Jester: 73
Creative Minority Report: 57
Conversion Diary - The Diary of a Former Atheist: 48
Thomas Peters of the American Papist beat me out this year in funniest blog. That is a good thing since my web hosting company has complained about the bandwidth for all my banners from previous year wins.
Normally each year I would run attack ads against those competing against me in this category, but this year I didn't and you can see what happened. Attack ads work so next year I will be ready. In fact I am going to start by looking more closely at Thomas Peters. Notice how he puts "American" first instead of "Papist" showing his priorities. A real Catholic would put Papist first such as "Papist American." And what is up with his motto "American Papist: Not Your Average Catholic!" Pretty prideful I would think. Not exactly showing the humility of a true Catholic. So remember Thomas I am keeping at eye out on you.
A special congratulations to Jennifer at "Conversion Diary - The Diary of a Former Atheist" who won Best Blog by a Women. I have read her blog from before she became Catholic and she is certainly one of the best blog writers. Though in St. Blogs there is a wealth of excellent women bloggers. Best new blog went to Faith & Family which is contributed to by Daniel Bean and a solid team.
So look over the list of blogs and podcasts that made the top 5 in voting. I can certainly recommend every single blog, site, podcast listed (except that Thomas Peters guy I am keeping my eye on).
Thanks once again to Josh LeBlanc and the other people who make these awards possible in the first place.
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Wait -- WDTPRS -didn't- win something it was nominated for? Heresy!
Surely there is a Vatican conspiracy behind this, probably involving Albino assassin monks, the Acton Institute, the late Cardinal Siri, and Malta.
But really, congratulations to you, to Mr. Peters, and to your fellow conspirators.
Oh, and to Jen at Conversion Diary. She truly is one of the best bloggers I have ever read.
I can understand AP winning best blog by a man, but funniest blog? No way. The problem with blog contests is that they often degenerate into sheer popularity contests, regardless of the actual content they provide in a given category. Recall that the now defunct The Cafeteria Is Closed blog won "best apologetics blog" a few years ago.
Jeff:
Congratulations. I agree with: "A real Catholic would put Papist first such as "Papist American." And what is up with his motto "American Papist: Not Your Average Catholic!" Pretty prideful I would think. Not exactly showing the humility of a true Catholic. So remember Thomas I am keeping at eye out on you."
I would add that Catholic means UNIVERSAL, and USA Catholics are only 4 % out of one billion world-wide ROMAN-CATHOLIC & APOSTOLIC, meaning that chauvinist inuendos are covertly heretical.
Cheers