2006 Bernies Winners

Now the big one… the one everyone has been waiting for… the Gold Logie of blogging… the Gold Bernie if you like…

The winner of the

Best Overall Australian Blog award is

Barista

With 59.7% of the vote after the distribution of preferences.

Second place goes to Samuel Gordon-Stewart, and third place goes to Karen Cheng.

Prior to preferences, the standings were

• Barista – 19.3%
• Samuel Gordon-Stewart – 18.3%

The winner in the category of

Best NSW Blog

With 60.5% of the vote after preference distribution is

Daily Flute

Second place in this category goes to stoush.net.

Prior to the distribution of preferences these sites had 27.1% and 16.9% of the vote respectively.

The winner in the category of

Best Victorian Blog

With 52.3% of the vote after the distribution of preferences is

Anonymous Lefty

In second place, Sorrow at Sill’s Bend.

Each had 15.2% of the primary vote.

The winner in the category of

Best Tasmanian Blog

With a massive 72.3% of the primary vote is

Tassie

Piss n Vinegar managed to get 25.3% of the primary vote, giving it second place.

The winner of the award for

Best Queensland Blog

With 50.9% after only 7 rounds of preference distribution is

Larvatus Prodeo

Dragon Girl was in second with 18.2%. Several other sites were yet to be elimanated when counting stopped.

Primary vote had these site with 37.9% and 17.2% respectively.

The award for

Best West Australian Blog goes to

Redrag

with 56.1% of the vote after preferences. In second place was Spiceblog.

The top sites in this category after the primary vote were Redrag on 20.6%, Ponderance on 14.3% and Spiceblog on 11.1%.

The winner of the

Best South Australian Blog award is

The Road to Surfdom

with 52.5% of the vote after on 5 rounds of distribution

Due to the early victory, there were 3 other candidates left in the running when distribution stopped… they were

Mel’s Random Ramblings, Watchdog of the Wankers and Pavlov’s Cat who had 17.5%, 17.5% and 12.5% respectively.

As the 50% criteria had been achieved, there was no need to distribute the remaining preferences as The Road to Surfdom could not be caught.

For the 3rd time… the award for

Best Northern Territory Blog goes to

Troppo Armadillo

Once again The View from Elsewhere came second. This year the distribution was 58.6% to 41.6%, much closer than last years 86.4% to 13.6%.

Tch… tch… tch… the power of the campaigning is once again evident…

The winner of the

Best Australian Capital Territory Blog award is

Samuel Gordon-Stewart

This time Crazybrave will be cursing Samuel’s campaigning… especially when she finds out that after distribution of preferences, both were tied on 50%. However Samuel was awarded the victory on count back (was ahead prior to the last lot of preferences were distributed).

Primary vote was 36.4% to 22.7% in Sam

Now the first of the Location categories…

Best Overseas Australian Blog

The winner, once again is

The Road to Surfdom

This time beating Jungle Jamie.

He did so with 53.3% of the vote after preferenece, prior to which he only had 22.4% to Jungle Jamie’s 28.6%.

The winner of the

Best Post on an Australian Blog award

With a massive 61.5% of the vote after preferences is

Sorrow At Sills Bend – “So Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were sitting …”

Second in this category was
Much Ado About Somethin! – “Reasons I’m an idiot”

Both were on 20.8% before the start of the preference distribution.

The winner of the

Best Humourous Australian Blog

with 56.1% of the vote after the distribution of preferences is

Samuel Gordon-Stewart

This time is was Daily Flute which fell victim to the campaign machine of TSSH and TSP and others… and once again Samuel has Jungle Jamie’s preference to thank for the win.

The winner of the award for

Best Designed Australian Blog

with 52.0% of the vote after preferences were distrubted is

Karen Cheng.

In second place was Piss n Vinegar.

Prior to preference distribution, they had 13.6% and 18.2% respectively.

This years award for

Best Australian Personal Blog goes to

Melbourne Human Female

whose 61.8% of the vote after preferences put it ahead of Ampersand Duck.

Surprisingly, both site only had 7.8% of the primary vote, several placed behind the leader at the time, Jungle Jamie which was on 13.6%.

Another successful marketing campaign by TSSH and TSP?

The winner of this years
Best Australian Political Blog award is

Larvatus Prodeo

who got to 52.1% of the vote with several candites yet to be eliminated. When counting concluded, The Bartlett Diaries was in second place on 16.7%, and The Road to Surfdom, AnonymousLefty and John Quiggin on 10.4%.

Unlike in the

The winner of the award for

Best Australian Photo Blog

with 62.9% of the vote after preferences were distributed is, once again,

Boudist

In second place was Sorrow at Sill’s Bend.

The CLEAR winner of the

Best Australian Tech Blog award is

The Gadget Show

beating everyone with a massive 52.4% of the primary vote, which meant no preferences were needed. For the record Problogger.net was second with 14.3% and the others nominees weren’t far behind.

The winner in the category of

Best New Australian Blog

with 54.4% of the vote after the distribution of preferences is

Samuel Gordon-Stewart

Coming from behind to defeat Larvatus Prodeo who prior to the last distribution was a good 8.6% ahead, but thanks to nearly 100% of Jungle Jamie’s preference going to Samuel Gordon-Stewart, Larvatus Prodeo was deprived of a victory in this category after having lead all the way from the first round. Primary vote was 23.4% to 22.1% in favour of Larvatus Prodeo.

I’ve just got word from Vlado that he is going offline b/c of the electrical storm and doesn’t expect to be back online for at least an hour. Proceedings will resume as soon as possible. Check back in about an hour for an update.

This years winner in the category of

Best Australian Collaborative Blog

with 56.4% of the vote after distribution of preferences is:

Larvatus Prodeo

In second, again was The Spin Starts Here, despite their request for people NOT to vote for them.

Prior to distribution of preferences they had 38.6% and 19.3% respectively.

This years 2 horse race was in the category of

Best Australian Podcast or Video Blog

The winner taking out 58.8% of the vote is:

The Gadget Show

beating the only other nominee, G’day World

The winner of the first of tonights awards, in the category of

Best Australian Mainstream Media Blog

with 57.9% of the vote after preferences were distributed is

Antony Looowenstein

In second was The Blog Herald – More Blog News More Often.

Prior to preference distribution they had 27.6% and 17.2% respectively.

The wait is over… it’s now time to vote in the 2006 Australian Blog Awards. [Update:] It’s now 12pm – Australia Day. VOTING is now closed. Results will be announced this evening from 6pm sometime, weather permitting – seems that Vlado might have some difficulty getting online to publish the results. more…