Awards

This week voting continues for the 2008 Weblog Awards, and I am proud and humbled to be a finalist in the category Best Culture Blog.  With a tremendous number of new visitors coming through and wondering just what this mess of language is all about, this is a good time to explain myself.  What is my point, after all?  As usual, I’ll answer that by questioning the value of blogging in the first place, and then point you to a few other nominated sites that I hope you’ll consider alongside Barataria.  Hopefully it’ll all work out.

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