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blogger interviews j blogger interviews blog in dm treppenwitz mobius life in israel bagel blogger serandez life of rubin mother in israel maggid of bergenfeld mother in israel sephardi lady jpix the photocarnival jewish photo carnival introduction haveil havalim widget contributors irina tsukerman sarah likes green jameel the muqata ezzie previous posts previous posts the first international jblogger convention jib awards looking for a few good men or women updated proposed categories the plan of action hey friends it s jblog awareness month updated haveil havalim and j blogger interviews the peoples choice jblog awards volunteers needed hillel and college students archives archives may 2006 june 2006 july 2006 september 2006 october 2006 january 2007 february 2007 july 2008 links j blogosphere wiki article jrants jewish blogging jblogsphere net jblog central jblogosphere community ttlb friday july 25 2008 the first international jblogger convention nefesh b nefesh will be hosting the first international jewish bloggers convention size the power of the jblogosphere taking jblogging to the next level a post about this event can be found here posted by sarah likes green at 7 37 am 47 comments sunday february 25 2007 jib awards looking for a few good men or women let me set the scene for you take something like star wars and you will get lots of love but tons of fanboy critique every fan has their complaints and thinks they could have done better especially those prequels now imagine if george lucas made an announcement and told all the fans here are the keys to the franchise continue as you wish whatever you d like you can do wouldn t that be cool even more important at the moment what kind of serious dork am i that i could even make that analogy in the first place geez i know right i can imagine now that the real question is can i even trust chaim to ever write a normal post after this and you d be right for asking but let me just connect the dots and be on more way the jewish and israeli blog awards have forever been part of a love hate j blogger relationship this year for the first time us the bloggers have been given the keys to the franchise we are working very hard to make this something that every blogger can get on board with we are trying to address every concern that every blogger had over the years things are going very smoothly so far we even have a brand new website there are a few of us that have been working non stop on this project and we have already secured 4 at least very good sponsors we re looking for more sponsors and we re looking for one or two more people that can take on an aggressive and active role you can join our jib google group to take part in this discussion and offer some assistance or you can e mail me or akiva or bagelblogger for more information i leave you now with a sincere apology that i will never again use a star wars analogy so gracelessly posted by chaim at 4 50 pm 48 comments wednesday january 24 2007 updated the sidebar has been updated for h h k c c and i added to two jblogger interviews from mother in israel and added a listing for the all new j pix carnival posted by chaim at 7 03 pm 3 comments tuesday january 23 2007 proposed categories bagel blogger put in a lot of work and came up with the following possible list of categories for the may jibs proposed categories 2006 jewish and israeli blog awards best life in israel blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best aliyah blog new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best diaspora blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 regional new usa 1 british 1 european 1 canadian 1 south american 1 australian and nz 1 other 1 _______________________ best community region blog new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best jewish religion blog outright outright 123 new upcoming award 1 best orthodox judaism blog new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 best conservative judaism blog new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 best reform judaism blog new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best jewish current events news blog new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best politics and current affairs blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 best centre 123 new best right 123 new best left 123 new _______________________ best major event coverage new nominated major event israel hezbollah war bmec category a the war update coverage bmec category b the war best series bmec category c the war best visual series bmec category d the war report single story bmec category e defineable best response to negative press during war _______________________ best kosher series new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best kosher post new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best media critiquing new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best single incident media critiquing new outright 123 _______________________ best series outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best post outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best overall blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best jewish culture blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best jewish humor blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best pro israel advocacy blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best non jewish pro israel advocacy blog new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best personal blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best designed blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best new blog 2006 outright 123 _______________________ best overall mega blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best podcast outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best student life blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best group blog outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best group series new outright 123 new upcoming award 1 _______________________ best of rest outright 123 new upcoming award 1 i m not sure what the upcoming award means but perhaps it would be nice to have three places not just one ultimate winner for the category just like last year that will help in furthering our goal highlighting as many blogs as possible i know there were some specific suggestions in the comments and i hope after taking a look at this list you ll keep them coming posted by irina tsukerman at 7 13 am 39 comments friday january 19 2007 the plan of action well now that we ve established that the real jibs won t run until around may and have decided to devote this month to highlighting jblogosphere in general we need to start working on a plan of action for the future some ideas being discussed thus far 1 hosting some of us have suggested that the jblogosphere blog would be a good place to host the awards for a number of reasons firstly it s a blog devoted specifically to the jblogosphere and highlighting jewish blogs secondly it s run by a number of people as you can see in the sidebar rather than just one person think about it as having a panel of jury to discuss the outcome rather than having one judge making all the decisions also the hosts of the blog have their own separate blogs and interests so jblogosphere is really the place for all j blogs and not for any individual agendas i m not exactly sure how that would work in terms of neutrality does that mean that we would merely abstain from the nomination process and the blog would not be involved in the nominations either or would that further mean that our individual blogs wouldn t be eligible either in any case i think the idea has merit however other suggestions are welcome 2 organizers well i think all of us involved in running this blog would probably contribute in some way but i think there s always room for other people to get involved perhaps we could bring in more left wing bloggers on the team to make the teamwork a bit more diverse after all if we want to highlight jblogs promoting unity among jblogs should be one of our absolute priorities i really think that it would be more fun for more people to get involved since the whole point is forming a community and in the past the competition element seemed to overshadow the working together part o of it 3 format as dave pointed out the people s choice jblog awards digressed from the original format of jibs which means that whoever is working on jibs in the future would probably preserve the original format getting a large newspaper to help promote and advertise the awards as was done in the past would be incredibly helpful as well 4 categories in the past jibs had a large number of categories and nevertheless received a fair amount of criticism from various bloggers who felt left out well there ve been several propositions to help deal with the issue a create separate categories for mega blogs b create numerous separate categories for smaller lower ranked newer blogs the way it was done in the weblog awards if you recall they had a number of categories choosing the best blog of each ecosystem level c create separate categories for right and left wing blogs or at least for the political ones d perhaps include more categories jewish israeli blawgs more miscellaneous categories separate current events from punditry different types of advocacy blogs 5 nominations the goal would be to highlight the best of jblogosphere so diversity would be encouraged rather than discouraged just as in the past the nominations and voting would be open to everyone so that as many jblogs as possibly could be reached at least potentially 6 advertizing guys that s what we really need to work on this time around part of the reason things didn t work out was because no one really knew about what was happening no one was advertising and a limited number of people was nominating and voting i really hope that ll change in the future i know some of you don t like the competition element of it but come on this is really more for fun than anything else it s not like we re earning huge prizes or eternal fame here the whole point is to highlight good blogs and encourage merit and jblogosphere in general 7 criticism we ve discussed the tension between being open to feedback and criticism from bloggers and the flame wars which have erupted in the past because of a few individuals who um offered less than constructive criticism well trolls are just a part of life come on we re way more mature than that or at least more than the trolls if they want to be mean that s their problem we re here to have fun period i m sure i m leaving a lot of stuff out so i hope to hear more ideas and suggestions from all of you i m hoping that we ll have learned from past mistakes and the spirit of good sportsmanship and fun will be preserved posted by irina tsukerman at 6 50 am 20 comments thursday january 18 2007 hey friends it s jblog awareness month folks i don t know if you knew this or not but january is j blog awareness month no you didn t know hmm well maybe that s because i just made it up right now how do you like that i mean why not i think somewhere out there there is some other thing happening that s supposed to accomplish the same thing but who said there can t be more then one road to awareness so with that weirdly vague explanation i officially hereby kickoff j blog awareness month what i m hoping for is that people will recognize this new project by upping the amount of jblog roundups they do especially to blogs that they are just finding for the first time try to include one new blog or one blog you never read before in your links take the graphic from above and if you want use it to link to this explanation post or change the link to a random new blog every day another way you can participate in jblog awareness month is to contact soccerdad and volunteer to host the weekly haveil havalim other efforts to promote the jblogosphere come and go but haveil havalim is here every single week offer to host one it s a great experience click here to read my blogger roundup for today just scroll past the introduction from above posted by chaim at 5 36 pm 7 comments wednesday january 17 2007 updated haveil havalim and j blogger interviews hello out there in the jblogosverse for no reason at all none whatsoever completely without any catalyst i decided to return to this blog and be an active member yeaup it s me that meal ol blogger mr malicious himself chaim from the life of rubin blog my first assignment was housekeeping i updated the dropdown menus for haveil havalim and the jblogger interviews all 102 haveil havalim s are now listed there as well as the four outstanding jblogger interviews that jewish blogmeister conducted please if you haven t read them you really should the next few tasks that i have taken on for myself will be strongly encouraging bloggers to take on hosting duties at haveil havalim convincing the other team members to allow me to make the beta switch since i m the one who did the template work on this blog i m hoping they won t give me too hard a time asking someone to email me any new kosher cooking carnivals starting from the 11th one and on reminding people to go the kindness blog and if you want to contribute then go ahead anyone can submit a story of kindness you don t even have to register wink wink just send an email to the lovely shoshana and be a part of something positive and uplifting the jblogosphere is all about helping to spread the word about all the wonderful jblogs in our community the jblogosphere is a blog written by the bloggers for the bloggers posted by chaim at 1 05 am 9 comments saturday january 13 2007 the peoples choice jblog awards nominations for the peoples choice jblog awards are now open the categories i...