The China Blog Awards: Third To None!

The China Blog Awards winners for 2007 have been announced!

It appears I have no taste when it comes to these things, as none but one of my pics took home a trophy.

As for myself, I came in 2nd to Beijing Boyce in the Personal Blogs category. I’m tickled, really. I mean, the fact that 155 people went and clicked a little plus sign to indicate they like this blog is a really nice thing.

Chinalyst is even handing out cool little “Runner Up” trophies for all half dozen “First Losers”.

And though I truly appreciate everyone who went the extra mile and voted for me, I’m afraid I’m not going to accept it.

The truth is, I feel a bit wrong displaying an award I created.

So, I’m happy to give the [deep breath] 2007 China Blog Awards Runner Up For Best Personal English-Language China Blog to the runner up runner up, Mysterious And Misplaced Logic of a Maniac Gone Awry – a great blog that everyone should read (and at least 149 people do!).

Props to the following:

Best China Business & Law Blog: China Law Blog (584 votes)
Best General China Blog: Sinocidal (289 votes)
Best China News Blog: The Opposite End of China (201 votes)
Best Personal China Blog: Beijing Boyce (198 votes)
Best Technology China Blog: Mobinode (108 votes)
Best Travel China Blog: China Travel News (49 votes)

And lets not forget the Zui Hao Best Blog Post portion:

Best Political Post: Ill-informed Chicago columnist scares the hell out of China
Best Humour Post: Classics and a beer and the best cabbie ever
Best Advice Post: How to Find (and watch) Stolen Media
Best Language Post: Learn a Language by Taking Advantage of â€œHidden Momentsâ€
Best Feel Good Post: First day at the Barbershop
Best Rant: Why is the Confucius Institute Online Stealing Content?

Cheers to everyone who took the time and participated. And a big thanks to fiLi who made it all happen!

7 Responses

Amanda says:

August 3, 2007 at 1:58 am

CONGRATS!!!

Shopgirl's Shanghai Lifestyle Blog says:

August 3, 2007 at 2:57 am

Believe it or not, Im going to Suzhou soon to hunt you down.

lol, no, am just going there to see the place, any recommendation of good shopping spots or other cool places to go?Just staying over the day.

Ryan says:

August 3, 2007 at 7:42 am

@Shopgirl: Read that first line and started to sweat… young girls with violence on their mind chasing me from city to city is secretly why I left Canada in the first place.

As for places to shop/go – shopping is best at Guan Qian Jie, a big walking street that is actually a couple city blocks of shopping. Another good spot is Shi Lu, in the north west corner of the old city.

Places to go? Pass on the Humble Admin. Garden (most famous), but go to the one next door – the Lion’s Grove. Tiger Hill is also pretty cool. But everything outdoors is hotter than the devil’s asscrack.

Sarah says:

August 4, 2007 at 7:14 am

hey Ryan, just wanted to say congrats on your 2nd place. The site that won … isn’t much of a personal blog anyways.

Another Laowai says:

August 4, 2007 at 7:33 pm

I agree with Sarah, Beijing Boyce isn’t really a personal blog it’s more of a bar review blog.
And congrats on the 2nd place.

Gabrielle says:

August 5, 2007 at 11:08 am

Congratulations, Ryan. Even though I think you should display your award because you won second place fair and square,I thank you for passing it down to me and for linking/giving my blog some props. I always get a fuzzy happy feeling when people say nice things about my blog.

Amanda says:

August 8, 2007 at 5:03 am

CONGRATS!!!!

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