> The first challenge will be making sure that all the blogs that people might want to vote for are added to the list and somehow categorised but I am sure the geeks could work out the details there.

As it happens, and because of the geeks that we are, Stii, Miguel, IrcMaidon and myself were discussing this last Friday night (See thats how us geeks spend our Firday evenings 🙂 We did come up with a few proposals for how we would do this, for example one suggestion was to have a special dedicated tag, say ‘blogs08’ that any item wanting to be included in the running has to be tagged with. There are also various schemes possible for getting these automatically tagged once this system “knows” that a domain is a blog. Then the highest ranked items with that tag (or any variation thereof) in the top view at the end of the year could form the shortlist of nominations. So basically the finer details just need to be worked out and agreed upon but such a system, I believe could work very well.