And The Award Goes To…

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You’ve waited long enough, and after 9,400+ nominations and over 1,500 votes, the winners of the 2008 Black Weblog Awards have been selected by you, the blogging public, and our team of distinguished judges.

Without further ado, the winners are listed after the break.

Best Blog Community

Popular Vote: The Urban Blogger
Judges’ Vote: Blackfolk

Best Blog Design

Popular Vote: Young, Black and Fabulous
Judges’ Vote: SoulBounce

Best Blog Post or Blog Post Series

Popular Vote: The Black Snob – “The Associated Press Totally Steals My Black Conservatives On Obama Story”
Judges’ Vote: We Are Respectable Negroes – “What if? White in America – The Never to be Made Television Documentary”

Best Business Blog

Popular Vote: Young Black Professional Guide
Judges’ Vote: Buzzology Surveys

Best Celebrity Blog

Popular Vote: Kanyé West
Judges’ Vote: Shaun Robinson

Best Culture Blog

Popular Vote: Afrobella
Judges’ Vote: The Liberator Magazine

Best Faith-Based Blog

Popular Vote: Gospel Fab
Judges’ Vote: The Infidel Guy Show

Best Fictional Blog

Popular Vote: The Li’l Creole Pimp Chronicles
Judges’ Vote: Welcome to Buena Beach

Best Food Blog

Popular Vote: Everyday Cooking
Judges’ Vote: NYAM

Best Gossip Blog

Popular Vote: Young, Black and Fabulous
Judges’ Vote: Bossip.com

Best Group Blog

Popular Vote: Concrete Loop
Judges’ Vote: Jack & Jill Politics

Best Hip-Hop Blog

Popular Vote: SOHH.com
Judges’ Vote: Nah Right

Best Humor Blog

Popular Vote: Crunk + Disorderly
Judges’ Vote: Yeah…I Said It!

Best International Blog

Popular Vote: That Grape Juice
Judges’ Vote: Scribbles from the Den

Best LGBT Blog

Popular Vote: Pam’s House Blend
Judges’ Vote: Living Out Loud With Darian

Best Music Blog

Popular Vote: SoulBounce
Judges’ Vote: SoulBounce

Best New Blog

Popular Vote: Keeping Up With The Huxtables
Judges’ Vote: Gureala

Best Personal Blog

Popular Vote: The Beautiful Struggler: Me, Myself An Eye
Judges’ Vote: JNez@thirtydaes.com

Best Photo Blog

Popular Vote: Sandra Rose
Judges’ Vote: Afro Sugar

Best Podcast

Popular Vote: The Insanity Report
Judges’ Vote: Mixed Chicks Chat

Best Political/News Blog

Popular Vote: The Field Negro
Judges’ Vote: The Field Negro

Best Science/Technology Blog

Popular Vote: Nerd With Swag
Judges’ Vote: SheGeeks^*

Best Sports/Recreation Blog

Popular Vote: Sportaphile
Judges’ Vote: Ed the Sports Fan

Best Style and Fashion Blog

Popular Vote: Afrobella
Judges’ Vote: Scandalous Beauty

Best Teen Blog

Popular Vote: My Teenage Years
Judges’ Vote: Life, Society and Style

Best Video Blog

Popular Vote: Love B. Scott
Judges’ Vote: Ill Doctrine

Best Writing in a Blog

Popular Vote: Afrobella
Judges’ Vote: The Black Snob

Blog of the Year

Popular Vote: Young, Black and Fabulous
Judges’ Vote: Jack & Jill Politics

Blog to Watch

Popular Vote: DC to BC
Judges’ Vote: The Peoples News

And the winner of the Aaron Hawkins Award is…

Michael David Cobb Bowen of Cobb!

Michael David Cobb Bowen — a self-considered “Hayekian, pragmatist, economic Chicagoan and geopolitical neoconservative” — has been actively blogging since December 1999. Bowen, who also has Google notebooks of his research available on his blog, has been featured on NPR’s “News and Notes”, Blogcritics, NPR’s “Tell Me More”, and in several magazine, website and radio interviews. Bowen is also the founder of the Conservative Brotherhood, and is currently working on a book about the movement from progressive to conservative in the African-American political tradition.

Feel free to join our forum to get in on the discussions for future installments of the Awards (it’s a little scarce now, but feel free to post a topic). Your feedback is what helps make the Awards the premiere Internet event that has recognized and celebrated Black bloggers since 2005.

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See you in 2009!