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Don’t ever let anyone tell you shameless self-shilling doesn’t work.
The Bad Astronomy Blog is a finalist for a 2006 Weblog Award, aka a Bloggie (sorta the Oscar for blogs). This is no doubt in no small part due to said shameless shilling. So why not, I’ll shill again: vote for my blog!
Voting closes on January 31, so head over there! There is no science category (I’ll blog about that later) but due to my loyal if somewhat easily-swayed readers I am in the "Best Topical Weblog" category. This is wonderful, despite the fact that I’m up against Cute Overload and Treehugger, which is grossly unfair, given that they are also up for blog of the year.
The Best Topical Weblog category is about 2/3 of the way down the page. If you vote, then make sure you vote in at least three categories. That’s part of the rules.
The winner will be picked the week of March 13, which figures, as I’ll be running around doing real astronomy stuff just then. Given my competition, I don’t realistically expect to win, but it’s an honor just to be nominated. 
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January 23rd, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Well, your shameless self-shilling worked in my case.
January 23rd, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Got my vote, BA!
January 23rd, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Count another vote from me!
January 24th, 2006 at 12:20 am
You have my vote as well!
January 24th, 2006 at 2:21 am
You got my vote.
January 24th, 2006 at 2:24 am
Got mine as well, I really think that your one is the best!
January 24th, 2006 at 3:52 am
My vote for you.
January 24th, 2006 at 4:09 am
Mine too.
January 24th, 2006 at 5:40 am
mine 2
January 24th, 2006 at 7:05 am
And mine. There should be a science category, dadgummit!
January 24th, 2006 at 8:18 am
Well, you’ve not got my vote.
Just kidding, you do really.
January 24th, 2006 at 8:27 am
Wow! That is some stiff competition! I read most of those blogs in your category. But your occassional video of Buzz Aldrin punching — that guy — pushes over the top! You’re a shoe in! (If it were up to us…)
January 24th, 2006 at 9:00 am
Ok – I bit and voted – geesh you have no shame! (Good for you!)
January 24th, 2006 at 10:33 am
thumbs up! and votes too!
January 24th, 2006 at 10:40 am
BA said: “Given my competition, I don’t realistically expect to win, but it’s an honor just to be nominated.”
Are you already preparing your looser speech? Always be prepared, you sure got my vote.
January 24th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
i voted as well, and i emailed the info to penn gillette’s radio show. not sure if they’ll mention it, but thought it was worth a shot…
January 24th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Thanks everyone! And thanks too, Bob. I’ll see Penn in a couple of days at The Amaz!ng Meeting, so maybe I’ll shill it there too.
January 24th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
You’ve got my vote too
January 24th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Fantastic! I’ve been advertising, if not shilling, for you for quite some time now with my bad ass-tronomy bag on the subways of NYC. Way to go.
January 24th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
You being nominated is no great suprise, considering that this website is no longer updated besides your blog.
January 24th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
A pound of shillings is still worth something, I think.;) You got my vote, you pseudo cad!
January 24th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
you are the best blog of astronomy, you have my vote
kyuzalt in culiacan sinaloa mexico
January 25th, 2006 at 2:15 am
Yep got my vote
January 25th, 2006 at 3:16 am
Ditto, for me.
January 25th, 2006 at 8:11 am
I hope you win BA!
I hear the prize is a statue of the winning blogger carved out of a block Aerogel to be towed into the path of another flyby comet named after them.
January 25th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
I hate to repeat what everyone else has been saying, but you have my vote, hands down, 100%.
January 25th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Well, yes, competing against Cute Overload is just not fair. I went to have a look. It IS cute. It is immensely, stupendously, mind-blowingly cute. It was as if those cute puppies and kittens just took hold of my hand and forced it over to click in a vote for Cute Overload.
But I resisted the Cute Side of the Force! However cute it is, is it really important in the bigger scheme of things? Does it really require the level of knowledge and commitment to create a cute blog as it does to create something like Bad Astronomy?
Nope. And the other nominated blogs didn’t come anywhere close either.
Bad Astronomy’s got my vote.
January 26th, 2006 at 4:32 am
You’ve got my vote (:
January 26th, 2006 at 4:35 am
You have made it to UK,good on you
January 26th, 2006 at 5:47 am
thuuuumbs uuuuuuupp!
you, sir, have my vote
January 26th, 2006 at 6:11 am
You even made it to England as well as the UK! Good Luck!
No. We don’t believe in ‘luck’, so you’ve got my vote.
Really must subscribe, after all this time going through Fraser’s efforts!
January 26th, 2006 at 6:19 am
Good luck. I like your mindset. You have my vote.
Chuck
January 26th, 2006 at 7:13 am
Another one for you. From South Africa of all places – you are globally famous!
January 26th, 2006 at 8:06 am
Best of luck! You deserve a bloggie! (that sounded kind of naughty, didn’t it?)
January 26th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Add another vote from me!
January 26th, 2006 at 8:41 am
Doing a great job. Keep it up! You have my vote.
January 26th, 2006 at 9:06 am
Hi Congrats on the nomination. Cute Overload was just that. I might even go back sometime and check it out again. But I made my bloggie vote count for you. Best of luck March 13.
Continued success in 2006 and beyond.
January 26th, 2006 at 10:49 am
You have my vote too. A great site.
January 26th, 2006 at 11:42 am
You have our vote!
January 26th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Read your book. Wonderful. You have my vote from behind the Zion Curtain in Utah.
January 26th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Anyone besides me remeber when this site used to have updates besides the blog?Oh those were the good old days.
January 26th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
You have my vote…multiple times!
January 26th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
You deserve it. For you have helped us change our concepts – the good ones as we thought them to be, to bad ones as we realized.
Voted.
Stella
January 26th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
You got my vote, mate. This one from Australia (again, of all places.) You are now even more globally famous. I love your work!
January 28th, 2006 at 12:02 am
This site is an excellent teaching source and viewing source here in Alaska.
January 30th, 2006 at 11:19 am
What are the other entries even about?
http://www.treehugger.com/ — ok, that is self explainitory; but how uncool and contraversial is that?
http://www.cuteoverload.com/ — ugh!
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ — huh?
http://www.gothamist.com/ — wha?
If Bad Astronomy Blog does not win, it will be shameful.
January 30th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Great, you have my vote..
January 30th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
GREAT STUFF.. YOU HAVE MY VOTE..SUE
January 30th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
One more vote sneaked in before the deadline!
January 31st, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Oh GOD!! Cute overload was so cute!! It was sickeningly cute! I’m afraid it’ll beat you, Phil. People will vote for it, because if they don’t they’ll be haunted by cute ducklings, and puppies in blankets, and see them in their dreams!
February 1st, 2006 at 9:34 am
Well anything for a bad astronomer!!