{"id":630,"date":"2004-12-05T01:14:05","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T01:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:54","slug":"its_not_that_im_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"2004 Best Weblogs Contest: Winds Team Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;we were only nominated in <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000077.php\" target=\"browser\">Best Group Blog<\/a> in Wizbang&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/\" target=\"browser\">2004 Best Weblogs<\/a> event.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re up against Volokh, and The Command Post, so I&#8217;m not expecting a win. But like a scrappy small school playing one of the Big Colleges, we ought to be able to beat up on a couple of them. Right now we&#8217;re barely ahead of Hit and Run and behind Tech Central Station by 4%. You could click through <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000077.php\" target=\"browser\">here and vote for us<\/a>, and prove <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/005944.php#c5\" target=\"browser\">Ted Stein<\/a> wrong&#8230;we ought to be able to beat those libertarian geeks at TCS! <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and remember, you can vote every day!! Other Winds of Change.NET team members nominated for awards include:* Nathan Hamm, The Argus (Central Asia -stans Summary), <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000059.php\">Best Asia Blog<\/a><br \/>\n* Robert Koehler, The Marmot&#8217;s Hole (Eyes on Korea), <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000059.php\">Best Asia Blog<\/a><br \/>\n* Simon World (China &#038; E. Asia), <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000059.php\">Best Asia Blog<\/a><br \/>\n* Randy Paul, Beautiful Horizons (Latin America), <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000056.php\">Best Latino, Caribbean, or South American Blog<\/a>.<br \/>\n* Colt, Eurabian Times (Th. Winds of War), <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000061.php\">Best UK Blog<\/a><br \/>\n* Andrew Olmsted (Mo. Iraq Report), <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000063.php\">Best Essayist<\/a><br \/>\n* Bill Roggio (Th. Winds of War), <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000078.php\">Best New Blog<\/a><br \/>\n* Dave Schuler, The Glittering Eye, <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000051.php\">Best of the Top 1000-1750 Blogs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Why aren&#8217;t we surprised to find that <a href=\"http:\/\/2004weblogawards.com\/archives\/000083.php\">DailyKos published scripts designed to stuff the ballot boxes<\/a>. The implementation of automated ballot stuffing measures has now forced the awards to change their voting procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re nominated for Best Group Blog in the 2004 Weblog Awards, and our authors are up for other awards too. You can vote once every 24 hours&#8230; which didn&#8217;t stop DailyKos from trying to cheat anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}