Japan Blogs of the Year 2007 - Voting open!
VOTING IS NOW COMPLETE! Update: 25th December. Thank you everyone, and I’ll be contacting the winners individually and posting reviews all the candidates. Thanks again for all the votes, and I hope you all enjoyed the friendly competition, and you’ve all found a new blog or three to read.
I’ve totted up the nominations from both the comments sections and email, and after a complex process involving lots of beer and a dartboard, I’ve come up with the following nominations for each category. Winners in each category will be awarded some yet to be decided goods with the upcoming new What Japan Thinks logo on them, once I get round to setting up a Cafe Press shop. If anyone wishes to donate any more stash in return for some publicity, please get in touch!
To encourage you all to vote, I’ll also be giving away similar logoed gifts to randomly-selected posters, so post your thoughts on the candidates, or on who you think should be there, and I’ll select one (or perhaps more) commenter at random and contact them via their email address. Voting will be open until midnight on Christmas Eve (or so) and the winners announced on Christmas Day, assuming I don’t stuff myself too silly on turkey-effect tofu steaks…
Best serious blog on Japan
Best humourous blog on Japan
Best culture blog on Japan
Best technology blog on Japan
Best personal blog on Japan
Thanks to everyone who nominated, and there’s a few blogs new to me here and in the nominations that I’ll write short reviews of this week.
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Sammy said,
December 23, 2007 @ 14:59
Ken, talk about adding in search engine bait and a trolling thread. This blog of the year stuff is pure troll but yes, it will help increase your traffic. Other sites have best blogs competition so why shouldnt your site add it too right? Did you see an increase in traffic? Maybe you should do what those guys at Japanprobe do, illegally copy Japanese TV shows, add in a WJT url into the video and post it on youtube or dailymotion and see your traffic explode. It works.
JAPUNDIT said,
December 23, 2007 @ 15:29
I’m surprised the guys from Japundit didn’t nominate themselves
All of the blatant cooking of the numbers (through association or paid-for link and click schemes, self-nomination, whipping and driving readers to vote, etc.) caused us long ago to become totally disenchanted with blog rankings, blog awards, and other such things.
as my articles often end up there
That’s because you post such interesting stuff, Ken. Keep it up.
All the best,
JAPUNDIT
Erin said,
December 23, 2007 @ 15:48
Wait, there are prizes involved? Wow, I really don’t read well.
Ken Y-N said,
December 24, 2007 @ 00:36
JAPUNDIT - thanks for the compliment! Yes, I know, these blog vote things usually end up as just a competition to see which web site can get more of their readers to vote. However, I think there’s been some interesting (and some trolling) comment on this thread, and I’ve learnt about a few new blogs, so I hope everyone else has too.
Erin - yes, I’ll be giving away some branded (I have a new logo) something or other to the winners in each category.
Final reminder to vote and Japan blog mini-reviews: part 5 » 世論 What Japan Thinks said,
December 24, 2007 @ 00:49
[…] that they were nominated. Reviews of the candidates will take place after voting finishes. Please remember to vote by midnight tonight, Christmas Eve, and remember that all commenters on that thread will be eligible for a drawing for a small […]
Tofugu.com - Japanese Language & Culture » Tofugu.com Named “Most Humorous Blog on Japan in 2007″ said,
December 31, 2007 @ 14:59
[…] Anyways, we thought we’d stop being humble for a while and let you know. Thank you all for your support in this end of year contest! […]
Tori said,
January 7, 2008 @ 13:02
Hi Ken, Bill from Rising Sun Of Nihon has invited me to guest blog and I am using the opportunity to open up the floor for a discussion about the Japan-related web (”What it is, What it could be, and Why it Matters”). It is going to be a month-long series on his blog and I would love to hear what you think about the topic. It may be good opportunity to further brainstorm your idea of a united J-blogger mailing list (or social networking site).
Sounds like a good idea to me. I mentioned it in a post on DailyJ and someone from AdRoll contacted me. Did they contact you too? AdRoll looks like it could be good solution.
Daily J » Topic » Post #20 of “The Japan-related Web” guest-blogging-series on Rising Sun of Nihon said,
January 26, 2008 @ 10:49
[…] web! Here is today’s snippet. When I think about promoting others, KenYN’s recent [Japan Blog of the Year contest] comes to […]
Daily J » Topic » Post #27 of “The Japan-related Web” guest-blogging-series on Rising Sun of Nihon said,
February 2, 2008 @ 03:26
[…] is today’s snippet. [Ken YN from WhatJapanThinks.com] had around twenty nominees for his Japan Blog of the Year Contest and he linked to each one. Those sites saw the link, found out about the competition, and then […]
Daily J » Topic » Why Koichi is embarrassed about the Japan Humour Blog of the Year Victory - an interview with Tofugu said,
February 2, 2008 @ 06:16
[…] Today we are back with Koichi taking a look at some of the great content on Tofugu that earned it Best Japan Homour Blog 2007 and why he is embarrassed about […]
behrooz said,
February 2, 2008 @ 08:52
is very good
Elias said,
April 8, 2008 @ 22:20
Man, I wish my blog could be on that list!
Check it out, it’ll be full of fun stuff about Japan, it’s culture, music and language!
http://snelis.blogspot.com
Daily J » Topic » “You are spanking us so thoroughly the least you could do is give us an interview” - and intro and an apology said,
September 9, 2008 @ 08:27
[…] end 2007 KenYN of WhatJapanThinks held a contest for the best Japan-blogsin five categories (a friendly contest). DailyJ was paired off against Trans-Pacific Radio, […]