Announcing - BotM Awards for May-June!

Ladies and gentlemen!

The jury has made its decisions regarding blogging done in May and June. This time around, eight blogs received nominations for Blog of the Month (BotM) Awards from classmates and peers. In alphabetical order by titles (without special characters), these blogs are:

• Born-2-Ball
• http://born-2-ball.blogspot.com/
• Brass
• http://trumpetter.blogspot.com/
• House of Keibo
• http://houseofkeibo.blogspot.com
• Madyu's room
• http://madyu-madyu.blogspot.com
• Mami blog
• http://mami-fe06151.blogspot.com/
• Tom-room
• http://tom-room.blogspot.com
• Triphaina's diary
• http://triphaina.blogspot.com
• Yu-ri's everyday
• http://yuriseveryday.blogspot.com/

Best Book Reviews

Three of those blogs received nominations for best book review. In numerical order by review number, they are:

1. Tomoko's review of The Troy Stone (1-09, June 19, 2007), which got one nomination;
   
2. Madyu's review of Kim's choice (1-10; May 28, 2007), which got one nomination; and
3. Triphaina's review of Jane Eyre (1-12; July 3, 2007), which got two nominations.

However, since Triphaina posted her review of Jane Eyre on July 3, the Best Book Review Awards for May-June go to Madyu's Kim's choice AND Tomoko's The Troy Stone - a tie!

Best Third or Fourth Essays

Four of those blogs received nominations for best essays. That is, in alphabetical order by blog title, one nomination each for:

• House of Keibo's exposition on his Ideal family (June 6, 2007), which got one nomination;
• Triphaina's diary entry starting, I love Kumanoto, but ... (June 17, 2007), which got one nomination;
  
• Mami's blog entry on Kumamoto (June 17, 2007), which got one nomination; &
  
• Yuri's essay About Kumamoto (June 11, 2007), which got two nominations.

This makes Yuri's essay About Kumamoto the winner of the Best Essay Award for May-June!

Best Sidebar Presentations

Unfortunately, the jury has decided that, this time around, the nominations for blogs with best sidebars matched a previous BotM Award category, Best Visual Presentation (April), rather than Best Sidebar Presentation (May-June). The rationales for those nominations all referred to pictures in blog entries, rather than exemplary sidebar developments.

So we will reserve the award for best sidebar presentation until the month of July, and call for nominations immediately in comments on a subsequent post.