Flutterby™! : Scripting News weblog awards

Dave Winer has announced voting in the Scripting News Awards for 2001. Unsurprisingly, I only found one category in which I thought a leading contender was nominated, but it got me thinking that a little "me-too"ism might be in-line. I don't have the time to write the voting scripts for a few days, but maybe we could hash out categories? This might also be a good opportunity to find some other good web publications that I'd otherwise miss. So here's my suggestions for a starting list:

• Best reader commentary or discussion.
• Sites we really don't want to admit we read but end up checking regularly anyway. This would probably be well expanded out into the reasons we don't want to admit we read it: Personality, political bias, etc.
• Best melding of personal voice with interesting external subject coverage.
• Most compelling personal voice with little or no external linkage.
• Sources for "scoops"; where the dishy stuff shows up first (I'm thinking mainstream news, not just The Daily Brad, although there's always dishy stuff there...).

Despite the "admit we read" category up there, I've deleted a lot of potentially negative categories ("Most overcomes its design") because no matter what I want to encourage personal publishing, but how about weighing in with your own descriptions of categories you'd like to see other people recommend sites in.