Alun Salt at Archaeoastronomy has taken up my challenge to post about the more difficult categories in the Cliopatria Awards by outlining the reasoning for his recommendations. You can nominate your favorite candidates for Best Group Blog, Best Individual Blog, Best New Blog, Best Post, Best Series of Posts, and Best Writing. A couple of reminders seem to be in order:
1) Use Cliopatria's History Blogroll and the History Carnivals to refresh your memory.
2) In those categories that have terminal dates (Best New Blog, Best Post, and Best Series of Posts), the beginning and ending dates are: 1 December 2004 to 30 November 2005.
3) An individual is allowed to make more than one nomination in any category;
4) Cliopatria is ineligible for the Best Group Blog award. The individual blogs or other group blogs of Cliopatricians and posts by them on those blogs are eligible for nomination in appropriate categories. Individual posts or series of posts there and at Cliopatria are eligible for nomination in relevant categories. However, judges of a category of award are ineligible to receive an award in that category. They may be nominated in categories in which they are not a judge. This Cliopatriarchal Creed, so simple when it was first discussed, only appears to have matured into doctrinal complexity.

On the recent controversy at BitchPhD and a couple of little dust-ups here at Cliopatria, I recommend Tim Burke's"People Behaving Badly" at Easily Distracted and Gina Tripani's"Special: Lifehacker's Guide to Weblog Comments" at Lifehacker.

If you've been missing your Chris Bray fix, he's over at Historiblogography listening to country singer Gillian Welch and posting about what parts of the United States have borne the heaviest human cost in the war in Iraq. The data hold some surprises. Brotha Ambrose Beers still got his touch.