Posted on 01/09/2009 11:25:27 AM PST by joinedafterattack
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Here is the vote for best Conservative blog.
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-conservative-blog/
Lots of good ones there, I’m voting for Ace of Spades myself.
Why was NOT FreeRepublic even in the voting???? on “best Conservative” blog? Who made up the list of which sites could be voted on??
FreeRepublic is not a blog, nor a message board. This site is more of a news aggregator with commentary on the news, events, and a hub for activism.
FreeEepublic may be, in specific terms, as you describe it, but in terms of activity those none-blog features are the draw that makes it such an active “blog” site.
And, to chose “activism” as a primary FreeRepublic “feature” and not a result, which it is, and which it is also on many of the sites in the poll, is a mis-characterization of means and ends.
A web-site IS what a web-site does and not what its owner calls it. In how it is used by the majority using it, FreeRepublic is as much a blog as any of the sites in the poll; with the only difference being that what Freepers “blog” about starts most often with the posting of something in the world external to the blog (news??) and not a “bloggers” own vanity commentary. To call Freepers blogging “commentary” on news and the commentary of bloggers on other sites as legitimate “blogging” misses the true symbiosis of the two. To “blog” is nothing more than to make your own commentary, even when it is done in a series of posts instead of one single “commentary” or
“news analysis”.
FreeRepublic should have been in the poll and Freepers should have been encouraged to vote in it.
I’ve been in and worked the Webby awards before and they would not consider FreeRepublic a blog. I know a majority of FReepers would consider that an insult to the site. You won’t find any other web community structures like this in the Webby awards. They have, in the past have had web community categories we could fit into, but we dwarf all the blogs. Not sure if you saw the thread earlier or past threads, during the election, FreeRepublic was in the top ten hit news sites for the election (they did categorize us under news), and we dwarf sites like the Washington Times in number of hits.
I should have stated the 'blog category of the Webby awards'.
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