China Blog Awards - Best China Blogs 2008

Chinalyst, hosting the English language China blogs community, is pleased to announce the China Blog Awards 2008.

Chinalyst has grown over the past year to become a home for over 200 English-language China blogs dealing with diverse China topics - China news, business, law, technology, travel, expat life, English teaching, Chinese studies etc., - all providing invaluable China information that cannot be found else where. The China Blog Awards is our small tribute to those blogs and the hard-working bloggers behind them.

Last year, Chinalyst hosted the 2007 China Blog Awards and the best China blogs 2007 were announced.

China Blog Award

The China Blog Awards will be based on the Chinalyst China blog categories :

• Business/Law blogs
• News blogs
• Personal blogs
• Technology blogs
• Travel blogs
• General blogs (that don't fit into the other categories)

Titles will be Best China Business/Law blogs, best China News blog etc. accordingly.

Registered blog owners may change their blog's categorization at any time before voting opens. Please feel free to tell us, if you have any ideas for other categories.

Voting

There are no judges, no rankings, no nominations. This China Blog Awards is only based on voting and if you have a China blog registered at Chinalyst then you're in.

The voting implemented is a positive Digg style voting mechanism (no minuses "-" or "bury"), which allows all visitors to vote for all their favorite China blogs. Every visitor can contribute one vote per blog for as many China blogs as they like. The blog that gets the most votes within a certain category is declared "The best China <category> blog".

Support Forum

A new China Blog Awards forum has been added to allow you to express your opinion and discuss everything related.

China Blog Awards Schedule

The China Blog Awards will work according to the following schedule :

• Till 30/11/2008 - China blogs that haven't registered to Chinalyst can still be added till the end of the month to allow a fair start for all. Existing Chinalyst blogs may change their categorization, description, tags etc. to help promote their blogs.
• From 01/12/2008 till 31/12/2008 - Voting will open for all. Blogs may still register during this process.
• 01/2009 - Best China Blogs 2008 announced.

Voting

Voting will open on the 01/12 and will appear on all blogs on Chinalyst. You're invited to take a look at all the blogs registered at Chinalyst sorted by categories. You can also access blogs through the posts view and clicking on "source" for any of the posts.

Please note that anonymous voting is allowed, and is limited to one vote per one IP for a duration of 24 hours. This system of voting isn’t perfect and it is subjected to some biases, and yet – we’re only doing this for fun and the promotion of China’s English blogosphere. We trust that our fellow bloggers will do what they can to play fair.

Registering a new blog at Chinalyst

For those who would like to add their China blog to the community for the China Blog Awards 2008 - You can add your China blog to the community after registering. There's more information in the site guide .

China Blog Awards notes

• It is highly recommended for blog owners to login to Chinalyst and edit their blog's description to add an introduction. It is also recommended that an image or logo be added to the blog description to attract readers and voting.
• Blog Awards are great for promoting link-love between the China blogs. If you write a blog and you like a certain blog then link to it asking your readers to vote for it. Link-love between the China blogs helps promote the whole China blogosphere and China related content on the web.
• This whole thing is just for fun! Like any system, I'm sure that the system can be abused, but I'm counting on the general good of the China blogosphere that this will not happen.
• Any suggestions, comments or ideas are very welcome.

China Blog Awards banners and badges, created by Daobydesign.com, are available for you to use those in any way you see fit:

Good luck and enjoy.