2. A panel would eliminate some blogs from winning through overpowering votes (Besides, that wouldn’t work for me, my readers aren’t big on participation. ^_~)

3) Nomination by votes – a panel might miss some worthy blogs.

4) Small panel, to avoid complications.

Maybe that should be a category?

1) I like dressing up so I’m going to advocate an awards show. Besides, who says there won’t be a sex-blogger event? I think making them purely online makes them so ‘easy’ to do it’s almost not worth it. Just don’t ask me to organize anything…

2) I think a panel’s a good idea. It’s composition would almost certainly be a mix of the people paying for and promoting the thing and bloggers (the past winners thing is good).

3) Noms by vote is a great way to get the biggest blogs to the top but what about the smaller blogs that are doing good work anyway? Could the nominations be done another way without producing a million to go through?

4) You could go Oscar style, the panel starts small – grows with each new set of winners. If they choose not to vote, their loss. Some non-bloggers would ad a bit of perspective too. The panel’s not immediately obvious to me…

Thanks – very helpful stuff people.

Better yet – try and select judges from different countries… America, Canada, Australia, England, etc.

Personally, I think it would be fun.

Like Ms. Kitka, I defer to Dacia’s response but to be honest, I wouldn’t want to be the one organising it. The words ‘thankless’ and ‘nightmare’ spring to mind.