U.S. News Blog Awards: Like the Rankings, Only Much More Anticipated
Anyone feeling a little post-New Year's awards fatigue yet? Us neither! That's why we're spreading the good word about U.S. News & World Report's latest attempt at relevancy. The magazine's equal-opportunity education blog, PaperTrail, has opened up voting in four categories: Story of the Year, Newsmaker of the Year, Best College Paper Columnist, and Best Alternative Media Outlet. (We were disappointed to learn that you can only vote once, despite the poll's seemingly infinite ballot supply.)
Frankly, the last category is all we really care about here. So far, Wesleyan blog Wesleying (you might remember them from this) is absolutely tooling the Ivy runners-up, Columbia's Bwog and Harvard's Gadfly and Pablog. Don't know who to vote for? Watch the finalists beg for your love here, here, here and here. Guys, a word of advice? Trust us, pleading only backfires.
Non-Endorsement: It's hard to pick a favorite, because they're all talented. But whatever you do, DO NOT VOTE for Pablog. Don't vote for Pablo Torre's stupid-genius site name; don't vote for his always-on funny; don't vote for the fact that he unearthed this. Nope, under no circumstances should you vote for Pablog.
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January 11th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
There have been some Crimson-circle-jerk accusations about Paper Trail over here:
http://www.harvarddems.com/node/1717
January 11th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Hah, Cornell won the best college column for the US News survey
January 12th, 2007 at 1:58 am
the question is, are you guys disappointed you weren’t nominated?
January 12th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Alas, as much as we would have liked losing to Wesleying, the contest is for on-campus publications only. Or at least that’s what U.S. News tells us.
January 14th, 2007 at 4:26 am
There are other schools that have had original blogs like this for a while:
MIT: http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/wheres_waldo.shtml
Ohio Wesleyan: http://scribe.owu.edu/index.html
Reed College: http://www.reediejournals.com/
What’s the big deal?