Hey! The Bloggie Awards are back for 2002!

The categories have been announced, and for the next three days (until Sunday) they're accepting nominations for the various categories.

(so here's the part where I lobby for votes)

Sure I may not have the funniest content, Fury may not be the best-kept secret, or the best Asian site (err, yeah) but I think it just might stand a chance in the category of "best programming of a weblog." If you agree, heck, why not nominate me? Those who are nominated most often make it as finalists, and who wouldn't want that?

Obligatory bulletpoint list of cool things techie things about Fury:

• The Timeline
• Fury 3.1 codebase, which brought Read by Topic, and enhanced google indexing among other things.
• Cell-o-scopes
• Qwer.org (explained here)
• Dynamic Look Ahead module
• Pseudo-static links which are nice, short, and dynamic.
• Half a billion whiz-bang sitelets in beta (Metacookie being a particularly relevant example, war as a timely one, and AOLiza as a timeless one)
• and all the normal niceties like permalinks, comments, and archives...

And that doesn't even get into the coolest innovation, 'Furynodes', an object-oriented, on-the-fly page rendering system so cool and dynamic it was used in the recent reprogramming of LinkStew and the forthcoming redesign of In Passing... Soon I'll have it documented and make a public release for those who are interested in a really powerful content-delivery and management system built on top of PHP.

Okay, that's my speil. I hope you agree it's worthy of a nomination, so head on over and nominate away! And while you're there, I'd also recomment LinkStew in the same category, for Benjy's supercool 'possibly related entries' mechanism, as well as In Passing for "Best Topical Weblog" and Wockerjabby for "Best American Weblog."

Okay, all done whoring for now. I'll talk about something totally differnt later: Reflections of an Expo (many of which have nothing to do with the MWSF Expo at all, but that's where I was when I had a thought and scribbled it onto paper).