Nice try, Steve.

How are you considered for a Niblet?

Is the trashing of Adam Greenwood really a result of an objective survey–no leading questions? If so, how do you know there aren’t a couple of knuckleheads casting multiple votes? If not, is it something thrown in there for laughs–in good fun–and does Adam see it that way? Because if not, I’m not going to participate in the voting.

If it’s the former, then I probably shouldn’t've brought it up. But if it’s the latter, then I hope the chandelier crashes on your gala event.

DKL,

Thanks for your efforts–didn’t mean to undermine your work. And it looks like Adam hasn’t lost his sense of humor over the trashing. Still it kind of ticks me off.

I agree that you have some of the finest permablogger but you don’t have BiV. I for one think she should be a permablogger on your site or Common Consent or even Mormon Feminist Housewives. Even though she has been a guest permablogger on a few noteworthy sites such as JI, Sunstone to name a couple.

BiV is in my opinion one of the finest minds in the Mormon blogsphere. If I had been asked to nominate I would have nominated her for best small individual blog. I don’t say that because I am related to her even if I am. I say that because even though I disagree with eighty percent of what she writes she makes me think.

Half the time I don’t have a clue of what she is talking about because I never even considered the topic before. It requires mental effort which I am too lazy to do. But every time she covers a topic I go wow how come I didn’t think of that or boy I wished I had come up with that. I have actually reevaluated a lot of my conservative opinions because of her moderate to feminist comments.

I know intellectually she is superior to a lot of us out here. My argument for her is that she doesn’t promote herself. She hates for me to blog because I treat it like a personal diary and don’t follow the conventions of others. She tells me don’t ever mention that you are related to me.

The truth is her blog attracted over 42,000 visitors in one year and she is an individual blogger. She knows what is the pulse of the bloggernacle and even told me when they gave me the boot that’s the way it is. She reads and comments on every post in all the aggregators she has such an inquiring mind.

I disagreed with the Juvenile Instructor when they made every Tom, Dick and Jane a permablogger and passed her over when she had the most comments to the date of her being a permablogger for any single post when she posted three of them recently. Others treated her same topic with less results on the very same blog. I would have snatched her up as her Charles Anthon series proved some rather really well-thought out Mormon history with twists and curves I didn’t know about despite majoring on my master’s degree in Mormon history at BYU.

I didn’t like the way the niblets were handled this year in that there should have been a category for small meaning individual blogs like BiV. I understand I was nominated but not put on the ballot. I wonder why the nominator’s choices didn’t make it. I didn’t deserve it since I have only been blogging for six months with only 15,000 visitors and my only interest is Mormon missionary work but she is not the only individual blogger missed.

I think BiV deserved it since she was in class just below the biggies with a single person blog. I think the big blogs dominated and the rest of us little fish were left out. Some big ones were even included for best small blog. How can a blog with ten bloggers and a couple thousand hits be a small blog. I hope they improve the process so us little people are treated like the academy awards as best foreign films.

I was told last year if you were nominated everyone got to vote for you. I prefer a more democratic process with a few more categories like best small subject blog or best small individual blog (meaning one or two bloggers on the site posting).

BTW she will get mad as you know what that I am commenting here about this very subject. I am sure I can read about myself later on Trash Can or I will be snarked. I like the latter guy who thinks I’m bonkers.

BiV doesn’t think like me at all, she is sympathico with the blogging community. But that is the nature of my relationship with her, I say what I think is right and let the chips follow where they may. ETB had a motto on his desk like SWK’s Do it; ETB’s said I want to be right and easy to live with but in that order. I would have liked to have seen a real write-in ballot and I would have nominated a few of the little guys.

BTW how come a conservative like me is not on LDS Select. Only John Dehlin lets a conservative like me on his aggregator freely with my strange conservative posts filled with Mormon doctrine and history, which I admit are too long. Mormon Stories deserved a niblet for its candid interviews that was what I called a super-mega site with millions of hits. Ted Lyons interview was insightful and compelling. I cast a vote for BiV and Dehlin consider this my write-in ballot.

Thanks for the clarification on LDSSelect. I couldn’t figure out how to even email anyone about being possibly included so it is my fault too. My real complaint on the niblets was there was not real place to do a write-in ballot. Being new to the bloggernacle I also didn’t know some subjects would be taboo even if they were done in a conservative viewpoint. Now I know. Right now I am trying to drum up some business for a mission president who emailed me about getting a few more couple missionaries. If you could add me I would appreciate it. I am spending a week or two on nothing but couple missions. I am hoping I am restored soon to another unnamed aggregator that dropped me. Thanks in advance. I hope you consider my site as being worthy for inclusion.

Well I just got home from work and DH, you are sleeping on the couch tonight.

I think someone got Hie on some freaky-sweet Kolob grasses.

Actually, I don’t keep up with these blogs. I’ll have to add them to my RSS reader.