Congratulations and Moving On
The contest is complete and the winners have been announced. But so far recognition was only given to the blogs that won the contest. It seems appropriate to include a larger list of the various blogs that performed well.
The list below is a more comprehensive list of the top performing blogs. Keep in mind, all of these blogs received at least 15 votes. Those are not just votes of support for the blog, each person only got one vote. So that means at least 15 people said each of these blogs was their absolute favorite MilBlog.
When you consider the competition and the number of amazing MilBlogs, that is quite a feat. Here is a list of the top MilBloggers according to votes from the contest (they are sorted alphabetically).
A Soldier’s Mind [blog.soldiersmind.com]
Acute Politics [acutepolitics.blogspot.com]
AfghanBlog [bouhammer.com]
Afghanistan Without a Clue [traversa.typepad.com]
American Citizen Soldier [americancitizensoldier.blogspot.com]
American Soldier [soldierlife.com]
Anger Management [airbyrne.blogspot.com]
Badgers Forward [badgersforward.blogspot.com]
Black Five [www.blackfive.net]
Blogs of War [blogsofwar.com]
Froggy Ruminations [froggyruminations.blogspot.com]
From My Position…On the Way [tcoverride.blogspot.com]
Iraq War Today [iraqwarnews.net]
Marine Corps Mom’s [marinecorpsmoms.com]
MichaelYon-Online [michaelyon-online.com]
Mudville Gazette [mudvillegazette.com]
Neptunus Lex [neptunuslex.com]
One Marine’s View [onemarinesview.com]
OPFOR [op-for.com]
Sgt Hook [sgthook.com]
Soldier’s Perspective [soldiersperspective.us]
Spouse Buzz [spousebuzz.com]
Standing By [blogs.tampabay.com/standingby]
Stryker Brigade News [strykernews.com]
T.F. Boggs [boredsoldier.blogspot.com]
The Captain’s Journal [captainsjournal.com]
The Fourth Rail [billroggio.com]
It is unlikely we will post more about this contest, we want to move on to our goal of providing valuable content to our visitors.
We are currently speaking with some of the winning bloggers about being a guest blogger in the future. And we are always interested to know what you, our reader, would like to see on the site. If you ever have an idea for a valuable, relevant post, let us know and we can possibly allow you to be a guest blogger.
VA Mortgage Center Staff
January 25th, 2007 at 8:34 amSeveral people asked if they could get an button or “badge” to put on their site to show they were voted one of the best MilBloggers. So we made two different images that you may use if you are on the list above. Please do not feel any obligation to use the images and if you do, you do not even need a link to our blog. But if you made the list, you earned it, so feel free to use it.
Color - http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/YouServed-Contest-Winner.jpg
B&W - http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/YouServed-Contest-Winner-2.jpg
By the way, we have not heard from BlackFive, Acute Politics, Neptunus Lex or From My Position. Everyone else has received their award money.