Voting now open : Vote for the best China blogs 2008

Voting is now open. Chinalyst, the community website for English language China blogs, is pleased to invite you to vote for the best China Blog Awards.

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 elsewhere. The China Blog Awards is our small tribute to those blogs and the hard-working bloggers behind them.

A few weeks ago Chinalyst announced the China Blog Awards for 2008 and it is now time to vote according to the following categories:

• Business-Law Blog
• News Blog
• Personal Blog
• Technology Blog
• Travel Blog
• General Blog

Voting will close at the end of 31.12.2008 and winners will be announced soon after.

How to vote?

Next to every blog display here's a small voting box with a plus sign at the bottom. Want to vote for a blog? press the plus sign. The vote will then register, the number of votes will update and the plus sign will turn green. Changed your mind or made a mistake? select the "reset vote" link at the bottom of the blog description.

You can browse the blog categories or just go through the posts in the main page and go to the author's blog by clicking on "source" available on the links under the post.

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 obvious biases, and yet – keep in mind we’re 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.

You should also note that anonymous users are served 1 hour cached pages, and so to see live updates on the number of votes you must be logged in.

Link, link, link

Blog Awards are a great opportunity for promoting link-love between the China blogs. If you write a blog and you like a certain blog then please consider writing a few words about the blog you like, linking to it, encouraging your readers to visit it, and maybe asking your readers to vote for it.

Link-love between the China blogs helps promote the China blogosphere and China related content on the web.

Promoting your China blog

If you want to promote votes in your blog, then look for the direct link to your blog on Chinalyst and link to it. You may use the following banners in anyway you like:

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 .

Any suggestions, comments or feedback are very welcome.

Good luck!