AsiaPundit is pleased to announce the commencement of the new round of Asia Blog Awards. The awards are based on the Japanese financial year, which ends on March 31, and nominations are now open for the April 1-June 30 period, full-year awards are to be based on the quarterly contests.
Details are below, nominations for the below categories can be made on the individual pages linked below until the end of June 16 (Samoan time).
Awards are at present limited to English-language or dual-language sites.
Region/Country Specific Blogs:
- Best China Blog
- Best Hong Kong Blog
- Best India Blog
- Best Indonesia Blog
- Best Japan Blog
- Best Korea Blog
- Best Malaysia Blog
- Best Mekong Blog (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar/Burma)
- Best Mongolian or ‘Stan’ Blog (Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan,Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan)
- Best Philippine Blog
- Best Singapore Blog
- Best South Asia Blog (Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet)
- Best Taiwan Blog
- Best Thai Blog
- Best of the Rest (Bhutan, Timor Leste, Brunei etc…)
Non-region specific awards:
- Best Activist Blog
- Best BGLT Blog
- Best Bridge Blog
- Best Business/Economics Blog
- Best Design
- Best Diarist
- Best Essayist
- Best Food Blog
- Best Group Blog
- Best Humor Blog
- Best Original Reporting
- Best Photo Blog
- Best Podcast
- Best Satirist
- Best Sex Blog
- Best Travel Blog
- Best Video Blog
Podcasts, photo and video blogs must be based on original content — which means a site such as Danwei.tv is acceptable but TV in Japan is not (although it is an excellent site).
Some categories may be deleted or combined if they lack a full slate nominations - and some may be added should it be warranted.
Winners will be judged in equal parts on: (a) votes, (b) technorati ranking and (c) judges’ selection.
While judges will naturally have biases, they will hopefully offset imbalances in other areas (such as inevitable cheating in the voting and inflationary blogroll alliances in the Technorati ranks).
The names or sites of the judges will be public.
Judges will be ineligible for nomination. As the awards largely intend on providing exposure to lesser-known sites of merit, we are hopeful that authors of ‘A-list’ sites that tend to dominate such contests will disqualify themselves by being judges.
The contest has been endorsed by previous ABA host Simon who is also serving as a judge (thereby disqualifying Simon World).
Traffic — the most telling and accurate measure of a site’s populatity — may be a consideration in future awards. However, at present, there is no clear or universal way to accurately measure and contrast traffic (sites such as Sitemeter, Statcounter offer results that cannot be compared, while services such as Alexa.com do not work for sites that are not hosted on independent domains).
This is all imperfect and will be tweaked in future events (with transparency, of course).
Most importantly, this is intended to be fun.
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41 Responses to “Asia Blog Awards: Q1 2006-2007”
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June 5th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
No sports awards?
June 5th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
You have left out Bangladesh!
June 6th, 2006 at 1:51 am
Could TV in Japan be eligble for best blog or humor maybe?
Looking forward to the vote. As always, love the site.
Yours,
Gavin (TV in Japan)
June 6th, 2006 at 4:33 am
[…] AsiaPundit has issued the call for Asia Blog Awards: Q1 2006-2007 [hat tip: Pratyush]. India has a category too so I hope you know whom you are going to nominate (hint: you are currently reading that blog). […]
June 7th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Oooooops! Malaysia left out too.
June 8th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Asia Blog Awards 2006/7…
I’ve passed the mantle of running the Asia Blog Awards over to the very capable Chris at Asiapundit. It’s already underway: go and check out the Asia Blog Awards 2006/7…….
June 9th, 2006 at 12:33 am
[…] Nominations are open here for the 2006/2007 Asia Blog Awards. by myrick @ 12:33 am. Filed under Uncategorized [link] […]
June 9th, 2006 at 6:44 am
You should have a best business blog also.
June 9th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
What about Kazahstan, Israel, Arab Saudi, Afganistan??? Are these countries not considered Asian? It needs to be renamed East Asian Blog contest.
June 10th, 2006 at 10:54 am
there should be a category for best book blog or literary blog
June 11th, 2006 at 12:44 am
where are the results of previous nominations and winners from last year?
June 11th, 2006 at 5:50 am
Asia Blog Awards: Vote for the best blogs and vote for SouthAsiaBiz…
It gives me immense pleasure to see that blogging is gaining more and more momentum in Asia. It is my pleasure to inform you about ASIA BLOG AWARDS 2006-2007….
June 12th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Excellent, Chris. I wish you the best with this venture, but whaddabout “best blog about Southeast Asia coming from San Francisco?”
June 12th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
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June 12th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Be inclusive, have Australian Blogs in the award; sitting a few hundred ks further south doesnt make that much difference, as it is, some SE Asian blogs have identity problems and hark back to the ‘old dart’- how Asian is that?
June 14th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
[…] This years Asia Blog Awards competition is about to begin, and I am honored to have been selected as one of the judges. In order to keep it all on the level, judges sites will be ineligible for nomination so you will have to find your favorite asia blog (excluding Sushicam) to nominate for this years competition. This will ensure that the big dogs do not dominate the contest, and thus allow well deserved exposure to some lesser known, high quality blogs. […]
June 14th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
[…] Please for once… Let someone other than the Queen Bee win. Nominate here. Anyone. I personally put Molly Meek, Mr Wang and Screwy Skeptic. They all deserve nominations simply because they are good bloggers and writers. So go… Nominate those that deserve to win. Not those who have Xombie Minions. Thank you… Thank you very much. (If I should die, blame it on the Xombies). […]
June 14th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
[…] AsiaPundit’s Chris Myrick has seen that all the flaggelators have been snaffled up by albino Opus Dei freaks, so to answer his need to inflict self-punishment, he has opted to take on the Asia Blog Awards. Good on you Chris. Tough job. […]
June 18th, 2006 at 9:23 am
So many people out here teaching English….maybe a Best ESL teaching blog?
June 18th, 2006 at 10:41 am
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June 18th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Extra! Extra! Blog contests, celebrities and indie music…
There are some blogging contests currently going on that Shanghaiist readers might be interested in: Best China Blogs (which has monetary rewards), the Asia Blog Awards and China’s First Annual Original Videolog Contest.If, like this local “amateur m…
June 18th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Almost all the countries have languages different to English. Why non-English blogs are out of the contest? Very unfair.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Good Luck to all of the Asia Blog Awards contestants. If you are a blog in China, you still have a chance to win money http://bestbloginchina.blogsource.com/ !
June 19th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
#1. There being no sports category, I have nominated “Asian Football Business Review” (http://footballdynamicsasia.blogspot.com) in Best Business/Economics Blog. Perhaps it should go into best Original Reporting Blog. What do others think?
June 19th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
I only just cottoned on to this - but the deadline’s irrevocably passed has it?
June 23rd, 2006 at 4:10 pm
[…] I noticed on Danwei that there’s another Asia Blog Awards going. AsiaPundit is a great blog (I wish I had time to read it more often), so I’m sure it’ll do a good job. […]
June 24th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
Asian Blog Awards…
As I’ve mentioned before, there are a couple of elections now being held to choose the best Asian and Chinese blogs. The Best China Blogs awards The Asian Blog Awards I’m going to keep this at the top of my……
June 24th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
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June 25th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Shivermetimbers! Is that me name in the list of nominations for Thailand?!
Good old friskodude. So, what am i gonna win? A new Ferrari?
June 26th, 2006 at 7:19 am
Do you have plans of extending the deadline?
Would like to submit an entry to the podcast and Philippines category.
June 28th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
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July 3rd, 2006 at 9:27 pm
[…] Gracias a los Asia Blog Awards que otorgará AsiaPundit me entero de la existencia del blog sobre China escrito en inglés y de marcado carácter literario. […]
July 8th, 2006 at 3:22 am
Nomination,
I am not sure which category this blog/website will fit in, but it is unique and an excellent
site. Take a look, you will not be dissapointed.
BJJ
July 10th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
So, is this contest dead? When will you be making an update about voting, official nominee lists and the date when the winners will be decided?
August 13th, 2006 at 12:33 am
Very interesting contest here, I was linked from the reputable ESWN to see your best Asia blog awards. I followed the best China blog link to Talk talk China website.
http://www.talktalkchina.com/index.php/2006/08/12/open-thread-i-born-hong-kong/
Which is easily the worst blog I’ve ever visited, and I left a message in their site as well.
“DD,
People are trying to have a civil discussion and all you responded was to ask others to “fuck off?!†Just like your original topic, very intelligent indeed!
I am new to your website following the link with someone nominating your site as the “best blog of Chinaâ€
My response to that is “OMFG!†Isn’t that an insult to that Asian blog award? ”
For the best China blog, I would nominate ESWN or Sinosplice.
August 24th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
[…] The awards, which AsiaPundit started last year, are based on the Japanese financial year, which ends on March 31. This year’s awards include categories for region/country blogs as well as non-region specific blogs. The nominations for the April 1-June 30 period were received until June 16. The quarterly contests then serve as the basis for the full-year awards. […]
August 25th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Oh gosh I missed the nomination deadline again!
September 6th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
I vote for www.therealtaiwan.com . It has a unique perspective on the Taiwan blog scene and presents some funny, sometimes downright juvenile cuts from life in Taiwan. It also promotes foreigner made music in Taiwan.
October 19th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Asia Blog Awards…
The Asia Blog Awards have been running for a couple months now, but I’ve just realized it. If you’ve got some favourite blogs, head over there and nominate them! Categories vary from humour to design, business to video blogs and cover basically every…
November 11th, 2006 at 2:53 am
Found this site by accident but find it interestinf and can’t wait to see the results.
Don Lapre Fan
www.mongolideal.com
June 23rd, 2007 at 3:57 am
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