{"id":1125,"date":"2007-12-14T07:52:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/canadian-blog-awards-now-open-for-nominees\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T08:16:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:16:26","slug":"canadian-blog-awards-now-open-for-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/canadian-blog-awards-now-open-for-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Blog Awards now open for nominees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/nominate\/\">nominate <\/a>your favourite blogger for the <a href=\"http:\/\/cdnba.wordpress.com\/\">Canadian Blog Awards!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, I was asked to help judge eligibility in a category or two (you know, cuz I&#8217;ve got nothing else going on right now to keep me busy) and I was pleased to lend a hand.  The Canadian Blog Awards have been good to me over the years (my <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/05\/the-plan-to-take-down-mercer-phase-one\/\">series on<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/the-plan-to-take-down-rick-mercer-phase-two\/\">Taking Down Rick Mercer <\/a>from <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/07\/taking-down-rick-mercer-phase-three\/\">2005 <\/a>was a lot of fun to write) and this year they are being operated by a new and diverse group of bloggers including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abandonedstuff.com\/2007\/12\/13\/cba2007kickoff\/\">Saskboy <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcdipper.ca\/2007\/12\/13\/2007-canadian-blog-awards\/\">Northern BC Dipper<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/stephentaylor.com\/\">Stephen Taylor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jasoncherniak.com\/\">Jason Cherniak<\/a> and a handful of others. <\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of people are critical of this type of thing, saying it&#8217;s nothing more than a popularity contest, and there is always at least a bit of controversy.  But I&#8217;ve found some of my favourite blogs through the CBAs over the years, including Ali from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alimartell.com\/\">Cheaper than Therapy<\/a> and the now-defunct Debaucherous and Dishevelled.  It&#8217;s great exposure just to be nominated, and a lovely compliment to the blogger as well.<\/p>\n<p>With 26 categories to choose from, there&#8217;s no reason not to nominate your favourite bloggers today.  I particularly like the addition of a new category called &#8220;Best Blogosphere Citizen&#8221;.  Nominations are open through January 11.  Feel free to spread the word, too, as the more nominees there are the better the awards will be.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again &#8211; nominate your favourite blogger for the Canadian Blog Awards! This year, I was asked to help judge eligibility in a category or two (you know, cuz I&#8217;ve got nothing else going on right now to keep me busy) and I was pleased to lend a hand. The Canadian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/canadian-blog-awards-now-open-for-nominees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canadian Blog Awards now open for nominees!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}