The Asia Weblog Awards

December 16, 2003 7:39 AM

The Asia Weblog Awards...they've garnered their fair share of controversey concerning just what constitutes an Asia Weblog, but scoring aside, it's an interesting list of personal sites from around the region.
posted by Poagao (5 comments total)

Doesn't seem like you can have a competition for "Best [X]" without some people arguing about what [X] "really" is. From the little bit I read, I have to agree with Phil, in that they are trying to include rather than exclude. And given that they will draw attention to some really good blogs that might otherwise have gone unnoticed, this is a competition that everyone wins, competitor and non-competitor alike.

(My personal fave is Turbanhead - I already voted for them as Best Indian Blog).
posted by RylandDotNet at 8:01 AM on December 16, 2003

(By the way, in the interests of disclosure, I am a white guy living in the USA, and therefore have no least scrap of "Asian perspective," whatever that is.)
posted by RylandDotNet at 8:02 AM on December 16, 2003

As a caucasian blogger who is also a Taiwanese (ROC) national (obviously living in Taiwan), I'm interested in this topic of discussion, but I find it often deteriorates into insults so quickly nothing ever really gets discussed. So many people seem to have large axes to grind.
posted by Poagao at 8:26 AM on December 16, 2003

*cough* not that i put them up there, but you can vote for my site, In The Gray for Best Designed Blog and Best Philippines Blog.

or you can vote for someone else.... like a jerk.
posted by lotsofno at 8:27 AM on December 16, 2003

Vote for me and I'll (to borrow from clavdivs) skull-fuck your verbs and sell your nouns to the yangban.

But, you know, it's an honour to be nominated, each and every time. Sure, yeah. A big big honour.

Please don't vote in these things, people. It just encourages them. But if you must, I repeat, do not vote for me.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:31 PM on December 16, 2003