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UU Blog Award Winners

Let the trumpets sound! The people have spoken, and we have winners in the first annual Unitarian Universalist Blog Awards. Thanks to everyone who helped make the Interdependent Web such an exciting place to visit in 2004 — and thanks to all the new UU bloggers who have jumped in and who promise to make 2005 even more interesting. Here are the winners, selected by you and your fellow readers:

Best Religious Writing or Theological Commentary
Advent Series in four parts — Adam Tierney-Eliot (Unity)
41.9% of 31 votes

Best Review or Cultural Commentary — tie!
Liberalism Reframed — Guest blogger Jake (Philocrites)
28.6% of 21 votes
Life in Privatopia — Beth Young (iBeth)
28.6% of 21 votes

Best Anecdote or Narrative
Single-entry winner: Round Robin — allpoints23 et al. (Beliefnet UU Discussion)
20.6% of 34 votes
Best of class: My Irony, who competed against himself, and tied not only himself but iBeth for second place — giving Chutney a whopping 35.2% of the vote!

Best Design or Use of Visuals — tie!
El Cáliz Azul — Enrique
32.1% of 28 votes
My Irony — Chutney
32.1% of 28 votes

Best Links
Philocrites — Chris Walton
48.3% of 29 votes

Best Writing
A Virginia UU in King George's War — Gregory
70.6% of 109 votes

Best Online Community or Group Blog
FUUSE.com — "The Voice of the RevolUUtion!"
62.9% of 70 votes

Best Non-UU-Themed Blog
Respectful of Otters — Rivka
41.4% of 29 votes

Best UU-Themed Blog
Philocrites — Chris Walton
53.7% of 41 votes

Congratulations to everyone!