Comments on: Where is the Best Atheist Blog Category?

By: nitwit nasik

nitwit nasik — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:09:15 +0000

There’s a blog in the best comic blog called Jesus and Mo which looks like a Atheist blog..it’s hilarious

By: lynn

lynn — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:12:13 +0000

There are a ton of atheists on Reddit. I’m one of them.

By: «bønez_brigade»

«bønez_brigade» — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:24:44 +0000

Though not necessarily atheist blogs (or an exhaustive list), here are a few blogs that appear to be sympathetic to atheism and/or pro-science:

Very Large Blog: Bitch Ph.D. and Pandagon

Large Blog: The Agonist and DeSmogBlog

Major Blog: Dark Roasted Blend and Balloon Juice.

Up And Coming Blog: Simply Left Behind

Individual Blogger: Majikthise

By: Epistaxis

Epistaxis — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:33:54 +0000

If they had an award for the best of each religion, and they included atheism in the list, would that be good or bad? It’s disappointing that our favorite blog doesn’t fit into their categories.

By: Brian Westley

Brian Westley — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:03:42 +0000

C’mon people, read how websites get on the list:

For The 2008 Weblog Awards open and public nominations in 48 categories began on November 3, 2008. Voting for selected finalists is expected begin in early December 2008.

Gotta start back during the nominating period…

And this from their FAQ at their message board:
Q: I nominated XXX, but don’t see them as a finalist. Why is XXX not included?

A: Several thousand blogs were nominated. Of the hundreds nominated in each category there’s at most 10 up for voting in most categories.

I had volunteers looking at one (or more) categories each. They didn’t know which category they would be assigned. Their directions were to look through the nominees and make two lists of 10. Their top ten and a bubble ten. They were allowed to add suggestions, but those had to be marked with stars. I was free to take all, some, or none of their suggestions. I took all those lists, validated them against the category requirements, and in some cases added and removed sites based on my knowledge of each category. The amount of data available to work with consisted of the nominations, some good regionalized blogrolls (on some of the nominees blogs), and the TTLB ecosystem snapshot (for ecosystem based categories). The guideline that blogs would appear in only one category made the process much harder.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:33:16 +0000

I think it is an anti-atheist bias at work. If you look at the categories, and the nominees in them, it seems clear they are run by non-rational people. The religious and pseudo-scientific leanings are pretty blatant.

By: Ubi Dubium

Ubi Dubium — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:00:20 +0000

OK, I vote for Hemant. Oh, and Greta Christina. And Ebonmuse. And…

Sheesh. Too many. I’ll be writing the awards site to second Greta Christina on adding the category.

By: Mriana

Mriana — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:39:46 +0000

Maybe we ought to create a “best atheist” blog catagory.

By: Greta Christina

Greta Christina — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:34:36 +0000

Don’t mourn — organize.

I noticed this myself, and took it upon myself to write to them and suggest that for next year they should consider adding a Best Atheist Blog category. Anybody else who’s irritated by this, you might do the same. If they get enough emails, maybe it’ll make a dent.

By: ubi dubius

ubi dubius — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:37:34 +0000

Science and atheism are not interchangeable. I don’t think the science category is a substitute. If there wasn’t a “Best Religious” category, the exclusion of the Atheist category wouldn’t be a problem.

BTW, “Diane” is Ubi Dubium.