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BlackPerpsective.net’s Best Black Blogs Nominees
May 16th, 2008
PLEASE VOTE
If you want to understand the why and how of this contest, read here.
Here is how voting is done. List your five favorite/best blogs from the 50 below in order of how good you think they are. Which everone you list first will get 5 points and which ever you list fifth will get 1 point, and so in between.
The 20 blogs with the most total points move on to the next round. Am I clear? If I’m not, ask me.
Be sure you list them in order of which you think is the best.
And no double dipping on your voting under different names; I’m watching IP adddresses.
Nominees should grab the nomination widget that I designed and Mrs. Grapevine at mrsgrapevine.com/ rigged up for me. You can add it to a post or your sidebar to notify your readers to come vote for you:
The Nominees: (The numbers in parenthesis are Technorati Blog Authorities; but they have no bearing on this contest beyond having determined that these blogs would be the nominees)
(Some blogs are hyperlinked and some aren’t because some were listed with “.com” on Villagers BBR rankings where I simply copied and pasted them from; and wordpress automatically hyperlinks those. I’ll try to hyperlink the rest as I can)
1. Bossip.com: Gossip for the Hardcore (1137)
2. Pam’s House Blend (1066)
3. Concrete Loop (988)
4. Nah Right (812)
5. Crunk & Disorderly (696)
6. Oliver Willis (622)
7. Young, Black, and Fabulous (590)
8. Jack and Jill Politics* (459)
9. SandraRose.com (419)
10. La Shawn Barber’s Corner (393)
11. What About Our Daughters* (384)
12. The Field Negro* (379)
13. The Angry Black Woman (365)
14. Real Talk NY Provides The Latest Hip Hop News (361)
15. AfroBella (346)
16. Entre Mes Lignes (332)
17. Keith Boykin (318)
18. Ill Doctrine (317)
19. Angry Black Bitch (316)
20. How To Split An Atom (316)
21. Clutch Magazine (311)
22. Love B. Scott (310)
23. A Hot Mess! (305)
24. Kenyan Pundit (293)
25. Too Sense (275)
26. QuestLove MySpace Blog (268)
27. Electronic Village* (260)
28. Raw Dawg Buffalo (255)
29. Points of View (246)
30. A Hot Mess (243) [see # 52 for explanation; see crunk and disorderly at number 5]
31. Darla Mack News & Reviews (239)
32. Necole Bitchie (234)
33. Black Looks* (233)
34. Rod 2.0:Beta (232)
35. Black Tennis Pros (228)
36. The Republic of T (225)
37. Think2Wice (224)
38. Soulbounce.com (221)
39. BlackProf.com (219)
40. African Path (212)
41. Undercover Black Man (210)
42. CheapThrills (210)
43. The Assimilated Negro (205)
44. Mrs. Grapevine* (203)
45. The Fashion Bomb (201)
46. The Smoking Section (198)
47. Prometheus 6 (194)
48. Booker Rising (192)
49. Crunk & Disorderly (190) [see # 51 for explanation; see crunk and disorderly at number 5]
50. Chimeric Day Dreams (182)
51. Black and Missing (but not forgotten) (179) [add to the nominees do to Crunk and Disorderly being on the BBR rankings twice due to having moved from blogspot.com to their own domain]
52. Beautiful, Also, Are The Souls of My Black Sisters (178) [add to the nominees do to A Hot Mess being on the BBR rankings twice due to having moved their own domain]
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thanks for the nomination and why no categories
I will say
6. Oliver Willis (622)
47. Prometheus 6 (194)
44. Mrs. Grapevine(203)
32. Necole Bitchie (234)
and me lol
28. Raw Dawg Buffalo (255)
It’s just a best overall dude, I can’t manage doing catagories; I ain’t got no staff; lol
It took me damn near a week just to get somebody to do the widget for me.
glad to see the contest, but i wish there were a diff. way of choosing the nominees. I’ve read some GREAT blogs that have low technorati ratings.
Dara I’m sure there are good ones without high authorities. My personal opinion is that my blog is better than some of the nominees; but I’m not in the top 50.
There has to be some way though to nominate; and this is a very objective way. A way that comes from factual numbers, calculated by an entity that has no dog in the fight.
I guess we can say that part of being a best blog also includes the strength of your blog promotion. If you promote your blog well, and get readership; and you have consistent good content, your content will get linked more, upping your Technorati Authority.
My five votes go to: Jack & Jill Politics, Field Negro, Electronic Village, Black Tennis Pros and Mrs. Grapevine.
I haven’t read many of these, but my 5 are: Black Looks, Kenyan Pundit, Keith Boykin, Afrobella, and Pam’s House Blend
My five are:
1. Jack and Jill Politics
2. The Field Negro
3. What About Our Daughters
4. Angry Black Bitch
5. Angry Black Woman
Yeah, thanks, I’m so humble. I have to think long hard about my list because there are so many and I don’t want to offend anyone. We need some private ballots…I’m just playing. This is too hard, I vote for all of the above and then some.
OK, I’ll think about it seriously and comeback to let you know.
MrsG, you can email me if you want.
My five are:
Jack and Jill Politics, What About Our Daughters, Field Negro, Clutch Magazine, and Black Looks
I really like Electronic Village too - one of my fav…dang now I can’t change it lol
Yobachi, this is going to be really hard…so many listed here are “my favorites”. I’m thinking - but will email you my choices. SjP
I have one or two I have to decided amongst. The main three are my standards. I also wish voting were private.
hi yobachi - well i think mine is the best
lol but seriously think it is kinda of hard mixing african blogs with african american blogs as the audiences are so different and and the AA have a much greater audience at the end of the day. ~~For example as an African woman, there are blogs here that really do not hold much interest for me as they are so entirely US focused whilst my main interest is in Africa related issues followed by general “Black” diasporic issues. i also think people go into a “bandwagon mode” and end up reading a blog cause of it’s rating than that it’s content - as you point out your blog is not listed in the top 50 but probably for me the content is much more interesting than those at the top. Also as I find it hard to take any blog seriously that uses adsense or google ads - but then I’m just a bloody cynic and arrogant purist - who has become quite cynical about blogging, ratings and awards over the years - maybe one day someone will give an award for consistency and longevity ! Still here’s my list.
Black Looks (seriously unless we cant vote for our own blogs!)
Angry Black Woman - seriously intelligent writing
African Path - has brought together a community of African bloggers from across the continent on a range of issues - always welcoming and always inclusive
Black and Missing - Thanks for this - countering the “missing white woman” syndrome - original and extremely worthy.
Republic of T - best queer blog
Sokari, thanks for voting.
Folks are seeming to want this contest to match their personal interest; and limit its criteria. I don’t know if you read the previous post explaining the depth of this contest, which I linked in the first sentence of this post; but this is a multi-level contest covering a wide range of criteria and considerations.
This contest doesn’t care about the nationality or continent of the Black Blogger; it’s focused on acknowledging the wide array of Black blogging as a whole. That’s the purpose of this contest, to celebrate Black Blogging.
I’m not interested in half the blogs on that list, and it’s my contest; but it doesn’t matter because this portion of the contest where people are voting on personal interest is only one part of the broad ranging determinations of the winners.
I think some level of consistency is demonstrated by even being nominated because you have to consistently bring content that others find strong enough in order to constantly have different people link to your content to give you a high Technorati Authority.
In the personal evaluation level of the contest, we will not be judging based on personal interest of the subject matter of the blog, nor on what the bloggers opinions and views are; but on the quality in which the bloggers present the information on the blog, the veracity of that information, and the degree to which the blog has been developed as a medium, as laid out in the seven criteria listed.
If I do say so myself, it’s the most involved and broad ranging process of acknowledging blogs that I’ve seen. I’m open though to ways of making it better and more inclusive of considering different aspects quality blogging; but I’m sticking to my scope of acknowledging Black blogs across the board.
If you want to put together a contest on best African blogs, or Best Content Blogs, I think those are good contest to have in addition to this one; and I would support that.
Great Initiative, but there are thousands of sites and to go off of the Villagers list is cool, but not a good representative of all black bloggers out there. Also, can you define the difference in a “blog and a website using social networking tools”? cause not all these sites are blogs.
Great,
There is one site that I see that I would not consider a blog; but I realized it after the voting started; the next time I do a contest, I will not consider it.
I say yes Villager’s list is a good representative of all Black bloggers because it’s based on the numbers collected by Technorati which tracks hundreds of thousands of blogs influence; based on non-subjective numbers.
If you know of any entity that tracks as many or more blogs by any other objective factor other than popularity (hits to the site) then I’d be happy to be informed of it, and may incorporate it the next time around.
How one expects me to know of all the thousands of Black Blogs in the universe, and then evaluate each and every one of them, is beyond me. As I posted to Sokari, “If I do say so myself, [this is] the most involved and broad ranging process of acknowledging blogs that I’ve seen.”
The Angry Black Woman
Angry Black Bitch
Black and Missing
The Assimilated Negro
Jack and Jill Politics
Thanks for the opportunity to have my say.
Thanks for participating Renee, your votes have been added to the tally.
1. Nah Right
2. Illdoctrine (my favorite black site ever)
3. The Smoking Section
4. A Hot Mess
5. Concrete Loop
Thanks for all of the votes for Jack and Jill Politics! There are so many great blogs on the list. Blogs I love on this list (besides ours of course) are Too Sense, Field Negro, Pam’s House Blend, Prometheus 6 and Republic of T. The list of blogs I read though is too long to print here.
1. What About Our Daughters
2. The Angry Black Woman
3. Beautiful, Also, Are The Souls of My Black Sisters
4. Electronic Village
5. BlackProf.com
1. Jack and Jill Politics
2. The Field Negro
3. Angry Black Bitch
4. What About Our Daughters
5. Undercover Black Man
1. Electronic Village
2. What About Our Daughters
3. RawDawgBuffalo
4. Field Negro
5. Black Tennis Pro
Here are my picks and I didn’t vote for myself. Although I like my blog, as well.
Black Looks
Pam’s House Blend
Black Tennis Pro
Electronic Village
What About Our Daughters
jackandjillpolitics (459)
whataboutourdaughters (384)
blackandmissing (179)
fieldnegro (379)
These are the only ones I know! Also I am a czech-american woman- do I still get to vote?
1. Raw Dawg Buffalo
2. Jack and Jill Politics
3. Field Negro
4. Electronic Village
5. Crunk and Disorderly
1. Jack & Jill Politics
2. The Field Negro
3. What about Our Daughters
4. Black Voices
5. Raving Black Lunatic
OliverWillis.com
The others are a distant second-through-fifth
1. Too Sense
2. Jack and Jill Politics
3. Undercover Black Man
black agenda report
skeptical brotha
field negro
booker rising
jack and jill politics
rod20.com
rhymes with snitch
Hi Yobachi,
I have to agree with each and everything that MG said. So many are so good. But after some due consideration, here it is.
1. Electronic Village
2. Chimeric Daydreams (although he has closed shop)
3. Black Tennis Pro’s
4. Mrs. Grapevine
5. Bossip
Thanks for the reminder Yobachi, I appreciate it!
VOTING IS CLOSED!