The 2007 Weblog Awards are under way and several North Carolina bloggers, or bloggers with North Carolina ties, are finalists.
Charlotte’s Sister Toldjah and John Hawkins’ Right Wing News are both finalists for Best Conservative Blog. You can vote for that category here.
Betsy’s Page, by Betsy Newmark of Raleigh, is a finalist in the Top 501-1,000 blog category. You can vote for her here.
KC Johnson’s Durham In Wonderland blog, which tracked the Duke lacrosse case in incredible detail, is running away with the Best of the Top 3,501-5,000 Blogs category. You can vote here.
Cabarrus Cheap Seats, a blog I just discovered last week, is up for Best of the Top 6,751-8,750 Blogs. You can vote here.
And last but not least, my daughter is up for Best Video Blog for her HamNation blog, and for Video of the Year for her sendup of the Sopranos opening. You can vote for Best Video Blog here and for Video of the Year here.
Notably and unaccountably absent from any category is Bob Owens’ Confederate Yankee, a Raleigh blog that has caused national waves several times in the past year, most recently in his dogged pursuit of the truth behind The New Republic‘s Scott Thomas Beauchamp disaster. How Bob was not a finalist in some category simply defies explanation.
NOTE: Betsy’s Page was missing from this list when I first posted it a few minutes ago, but it wasn’t for want of trying to include her. I tried to post this info three times this morning and had to start over each time when the Right Wing News site locked up my browser (I’m sure the problem is at my end, John) and I had to close Firefox and start over each time. Betsy was in each of those earlier post attempts but got left out of my (finally) successful try. Her page has now been added.
