I got the email on the Virginia Young Democrats Blogger of the Year awards as well. The divisions:
- VAYD Teen Blogger of the Year (ages 13-18)
- VAYD College Blogger of the Year (in college)
- VAYD Young Adult Blogger of the Year (younger than 36 and not in college)
Two things came to mind when I saw the divisions:
- What? No category for us oldsters? I see The Richmond Democrat had a similar thought 😉 Fortunately, the Ditzy Dems came to the rescue 😀 Glad to see these two back in the blogosphere, by the way.
- How in the heck am I supposed to know who is in college and who is not? Or, for that matter, who is under 18 (except Kenton, of course)? Is there a list somewhere?
Anyway – since I don’t want to register at yet another site in order to post (you know how us oldsters are – we forget passwords 🙂 ) here are my nominations:
- Teen – Kenton Ngo (are there any other bloggers under 18 out there?)
- College – Bryan Scrafford, Terry Carter, James Martin, Dannyboy , Greg Bouchillon and Genevieve and Eryn
- Young Adult – Waldo Jaquith
As for some of the other blogs that I read, I just don’t know what division to put you in, so please don’t take my lack of nomination as a slight. In fact, leave me the the proper division in the comments & I’ll nominate you, too 🙂
As for the oldsters – well, I nominate anyone over 36 😆
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Thanks for your help. I appreciate it……
Thanks for putting my name up in the college category, Vivian. I greatly appreciate it. I also have to agree with the fact that it can be hard to know what categories people fall into. There have been several times that I thought I knew a person’s age, but something would come along to prove my guess wrong.
I think that is part of the downfall of being primarily an “online community.” Although many of us know each other outside of the blogosphere, there are many times when the majority of our correspondence only takes place online – whether it be through blogs only, or also through emails and AIM.
As far as the argument that there should be a category for bloggers over 36, I think both sides of the argument are valid. There is no denying that Virginia’s most influential bloggers come from all difference age groups, ethnicities, parts of the commonwealth, religious beliefs, etc, and that is something that should be celebrated. Therefore, the contest’s officials must be an effort made to make it perfectly clear that younger bloggers/readers of blogs strongly value the work done by people who are not eligible for membership in VAYD.
At the same time, however, this is somewhat similar to the attitude that might be taken during a GOTV effort. Obviously a candidate would want to get as many of his/her supporters out to the polls as possible, which means that he/she will try to reach out to all age groups, ethnicities, religious groups, etc. However, there might be a person that is running point on how to specifically target each individual group.
Adam’s contest is sort of running point on recognizing younger bloggers. Does that mean that bloggers over 36 aren’t important? No. In fact, they very well might even influence the group’s final decision. It is just that the group is running point on recognizing younger bloggers.
charliebrown – check out this post for what I did.
Bryan – it’s not a big deal to me that the YDs would want to nominate YDs 🙂 I think the bigger issue is not knowing the divisions to put folks into.
YAY! 10 bucks says the first and third category were made for Kenton and Waldo (Sorry the cutoff is 30… I know your 31st was last May)
“How in the heck am I supposed to know who is in college and who is not?”
I thought the same thing. There are only a select few bloggers that I know the “general age” of. I don’t know of anyone under 18 except for Kenton. Thanks for nominating me in the college category Vivian, and don’t worry, I didn’t feel like registering for an account either (sad to say I don’t already have one), but I’ll probably just email them my suggestions later on today. 🙂
“Bryan – it’s not a big deal to me that the YDs would want to nominate YDs ”
Oh, and I agree with this too. I wouldn’t expect a GOP blog ‘award’ to be awarded to a Dem (and vice versa), and I wouldn’t expect a “Young at Heart” group to award a teenager with ‘member of the year,’ lol.
Thanks for posting about the contest, Vivian.
I guess I expected that people would be nominated based on how old people thought they were, and then we’d sort things out later. I also suspected there were more high school bloggers, and some of the college bloggers I thought were older. But live and learn.
If anyone doesn’t want to register at vayd.org, just e-mail me your nominations at blogmasterATvaydDOTorg – put “Blogger of the Year” in the subject line.