August 7th 2007 · Posted by Bobby Griffin · Comments
Thank you all so very much for all your votes. We had a total of 175 voters cast over 11,000 votes total! Amazing!
I had a really great time running my blog last year when it was in full swing. Unfortunately, its popularity eventually caused me to spend ALL my free time (10+ hours a week) manually typing links into the directory…not fun and not easy! Now that the new Blog Directory is automatic, I can more clearly focus on what made all of us love Bestest Blog in the first place (plus I got a full time partner in Kevin to help!).
[side note: since Kevin is helping out, that means this blog has multiple authors and is therefore disqualified for PayPerPost, another gripe I know a few of you had way back when…]
So, I hope you all will add Bestest Blog back to your daily rounds, maybe subscribe to it via RSS and join Kevin and I as we present you with daily picks, starting tomorrow, for:
Best Blogof the Day (daily at 8AM),
Funniest Videoof the Day (10AM),
Funniest Pictureof the Day (12 noon),
Funniest Jokeof the Day (2PM), and
Most Fun Gameof the Day (4PM)
…all based on your votes and nominations (ok, I vote and nominate a bunch myself too!) Voting has already commenced, and there are already between 40 and 100 nominations in each category. Joining the Blog Directory will get you in the running for “Best Blogof the Day!”
One last thing before the results. I just want to publicly commend all the blogs and bloggers that were even considered for this award. In many cases a few votes of 1 or 5 could have meant a difference of 5-10 spots in the ranking. Also, even if you are something like #90/105 in the results here today…remember that you are really like #90/3000, taking into account all the blogs that didn’t even make it this far! CONGRATULATIONS!! So without further ado…
1: Bond’s Big Leather Couch
2: Controlled Chaos
3: Skittles’ Place
4: Crazy Working Mom
5: The Wonderful World of Nothing Worthwhile
6: Here Comes a Storm
7: My Marrakesh
8: Second Effort
9: Gem-osophy
10: It’s a Blog Eat Blog World
11: The Running Man
12: Coffee 2 Go
13: Memoirs of a Gouda
14: Purrchance to Dream
15: Memoirs of an Inmate’s Wife
16: Dating Profile of the Day
17: The Tome of Communism
18: Trav’s Thoughts
19: The Ice Box
20: WTIT Tape Radio: The Blog
21: Sgt Dub
22: A Homesteading Neophyte
23: Last Minute Lyn’s Life
24: Critique My Blog
25: Sarge Charlie
26: Tripping On Words
27: Echoes of Grace
28: Dr. Blogstein
29: Thermal
30: Parlancheq
31: The Adventures of the S-Team
32: Are We There Yet?
33: I Am Woman, See Me Blog!
34: Bagwine Ruminations
35: Foxxfyrre’s Honk’n Holl’r
36: Cozy Reader
37: Digital Traveler
38: Dixie’s Heart and Soul
39: Muffin53
40: Peggy, as she is
41: Pregnant Pauses
42: Doctor Anonymous
43: Words That Flow
44: A Chuisle Mo Chroi
45: The Ordinary Adventures of Tomas
46: The Jannaverse
47: The Rhetorical Letter Writer
48: Blog That Mommy!
49: Fungi Thinking
50: Bible Study Blog
51: Young and Broke
52: Bathrooms of the World
53: A Little Piece of Me
54: EDog’s Everything Page
55: Epiphany Sanctuary
56: More Cowbell
57: Spluch
58: Meloncutter Musings
59: The Profile Directory of Bloggers
60: Save Shiela
61: The Limericker
62: Emasculating Nickname
63: Get a Klu
64: Bitter Cup of Joe
65: Soliloquies Exposed
66: Alchemy Anyone?
67: Home Ec. for Grownups
68: Stupid Criminal Files
69: Theory of Thought
70: It’s About Time
71: Sadie, Sadie, Married Lady
72: Ms Maggie Moo Talks 2 U
73: Simple Kind of Life
74: Two Can Anne
75: Web Gamin
76: Erika Jean
77: The Dragon: 050376
78: Maine Stay Inn
79: Flip This Body
80: Joke Diary
81: The World of Yaxlich
82: The Laughorist
83: The Gabbatha Journey
84: These Are Me Thinks
85: The Spoon
86: The Wooden Porch
87: A Dog A Day
88: 365 Days
89: Ideabook
90: eclectic spaghetti
91: Top Jokes Blog
92: Tricia’s Musings
93: My Own Superhero
94: NNtB: Ringo’s World
95: Tortilla Chips and Milk
96: Truth: The No Spin Politically Incorrect Zone
97: Blog of the Problematique
98: Valentine’s Views on Sports
99: Totally Biased Book and Movie Review
100: Tales of Your Local Animal Shelter
101: Ron Bramlett
102: Stop Looking at My Screen…NOSY!
103: She Says It’s Pretty Dumb
104: Pointless Drivel
105: A Girl Worth Saving
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August 7th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Great stuff! : )
August 7th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Congratulaitons to all the winners!
August 7th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Wow Booby! This is soooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!
Thanks!!
August 7th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
You’re very welcome Mike. Glad to see a great blog like yours come in 5th. Your readership really seems to be picking up lately (and deservedly so), I hope you’ll be making your way back here regularly as we get back into full swing!
August 7th, 2007 at 9:53 am
An incredible group of blogs by an incredible group of people. Congrats to all.
August 7th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Hey Bond,
I need you to shoot me an email (bobbygriffin@gmail.com) about claiming your prize!!!
August 7th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Yeah! 17th place! WOOOOOOOOO!
August 7th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Congrats Woozie! Communism prevails again! Any chance of you making Bestest Blog a regular stopping grounds again ;-)?
August 7th, 2007 at 10:00 am
I am honored to be #36!! Thanks so much. I am actually surprised to have gotten that high in the list. There’s always next year!!!!
Thanks Bobby!
August 7th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Why are you surprised? You have a great blog and obviously other people agree! Thanks for stopping by Jane, hopefully you’ll be making this a regular stop as we get back into full swing!
August 7th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Yuss! I’m number 90! Thank you for the nominations! This is so cool!
August 7th, 2007 at 10:05 am
NICE! My man Vinny Bond takes the prize. You think I’d have a second place blogger as a co-host of my radio show?!?
August 7th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Hahaha, no, I don’t think Dr. B would stoop that low! What about having on the guy who ran the contest? I told ya, I’d love to come on again, I had a great time…just say the word
August 7th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Number 61 :D. Proud to be there :).
August 7th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Lets get you on next week for a quick update. You can tell us how you persevered through all the controversy this spring.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:20 am
WOOHOO!
I’m honored to be in such wonderful company!
Thank you, Bobby, for your consistently ingenious cyber concoctions that happily unite bloggers everywhere! You’re the best! ;p
August 7th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for your vote of confidence Irene, and congratulations again! We got lots of exciting stuff on the horizon, so I hope you’ll check back in with us again!
August 7th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Thanks!
August 7th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Congratulations, Vinny!
Well done, Bobby. Thanks for the initiative and all your hard work.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Thank YOU Lizza. If you like hard work, we’re just getting started! I hope you’ll be coming back more regularly now that we’re back in full swing!
August 7th, 2007 at 10:30 am
awesome! Thanks!
August 7th, 2007 at 10:47 am
I TOTALLY approve this choice as I picked him for Blog of The Day to begin with way back in January =) I feel like a proud mother!
August 7th, 2007 at 11:01 am
A fine, fine choice! I love the Couch!
Cheers to you, Vinny! And cheers to Bobby as well!
August 7th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Wow, 11th place…I’m just honored to be part of that wonderful group of folks. Awesome!
August 7th, 2007 at 11:40 am
What a wonderful list of bloggers. I am honored to be in the top 20.
Bond does a fabulous job with his blog and has a loyal fan base - congratulations to The Big Leather Couch! Richly deserved.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Well gosh I was so excited by Bond winning it all I forgot to say thanks to all for putting me in 6th =)
Thanks!!
August 7th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Congratulations to all winners. You are all THE BESTEST!
Greetings and lotta loves from Malaysia.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
I’m really surprised I got #46… I had no idea I’d do that well.
Thank you, to whoever voted for me!
(I didn’t even vote for myself!)
August 7th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Come on! Give yourself a little credit Janna…your blog rocks!! I for one voted for you!
August 7th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Number 3??? Wow! (Do I get a badge? LOL.)
Congrats to Bond!
Bobby, I still think the Blankest blog is hard to understand and navigate. Can’t you make it more like this one? It should only take about a month to change it.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Congratulations to all the winners!
August 7th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Hey everyone, I just wanted to steal away from work for a moment and congratulate everyone on their hard work and dedication that made these blogs what they are! Each and everyone of you deserves an award for everything you do and as Bobby has said before, it doesn’t matter where you rank but that you even made the list to begin with is accomplishment enough! So give yourselves a pat on the back and know that you gained at least one new reader in me. I can’t believe all the great finds when I went through the voting list and will definitely be sure to keep checking back. Finally, thanks for all your support in making our site what it is, we couldn’t have done this without you! Again to quote Bobby, “we’re just getting started!” Can’t wait to see what the future brings for both us and your blogs! Congrats!
August 7th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
congrats to the winner as well as all the also rans.
August 7th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Good job! Blankest Blank is really getting to be quite a hotspot for Everyone, isn’t it??
Keep it up!
August 7th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Whoa!! I can not believe I came in 15!! What an honor!!! I am still shocked to be in such wonderful company as all of these blogs. Thank you all so much, your blogs are all so wonderful. Keep Bloggin’!!!!!
August 7th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Wow. I’m shocked and pleasantly surprised to finish in the top 20. Thanks to all.
August 7th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Dear Mr. Bobby Griffin, and Mr. Kevin too,
Hope you’re in the best of health.
I’ve featured BlankestBlank in my latest post. I don’t know whether this comment can accept some simple HTML or not, but you can see it by clicking my name, ArahMan7. I hope it will lead you to my post.
Congratulations! Good things you got going here. I pray there will be more to come.
That’s all for now. I hope I’m forgiven.
Greetings and lotta loves from Malaysia.
ArahMan7
August 7th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
ArahMan7,
Thank you very much for the kind words and even kinder post! I’m very glad you enjoy what we’re doing here. It’s a very rewarding feeling to be able to share this experience with everyone and receive such a great welcome! I checked out both My Journey To Recovery and Web Directory. I must say you’ve got a great thing going there and I would encourage everyone to check them out. Best of luck with all that you do!
-Kevin
August 7th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Congrats to all and thanks Bobby!
August 8th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I will admit I was shocked to find myself at #22. I really didn’t think I would make the top 50. Color me thrilled.
August 12th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
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