Ten blogs enter; one blog leaves
The Oregon Commentator has been selected as one of the ten finalists in the America’s Future Foundation 2008 College Blogger Contest. Here’s part of the sweet email we got:
Dear college blogger,
Thanks for entering the America’s Future Foundation College Blogger Contest. I’m happy to let you know that you’ve been chosen as one of ten finalists. You are now eligible to compete for the $10,000 grand prize. Contest judges will now regularly monitor your blog through April at which point they’ll announce a winner.
Not bad for a bunch of boozehounds, eh? Here’s the full list of finalists:
- GOP3.com (Marquette University)
- The Oregon Commentator (University of Oregon)
- California Patriot Blog (Univeristy of California, Berkeley)
- The Irish Rover (University of Notre Dame)
- The Critical Badger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- The Claremont Conservative (Claremont McKenna College)
- Panther Talk Live (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)
- Dartblog (Dartmouth College)
- Surveillance State (Indiana University Bloomington)
- On Life and Lybberty (Brigham Young University & University College London)
The contest will be judged by a group of noted bloggers who you’ve probably ran across if you’re conservative or libertarian and spend any time at all on the internet. Most of them are on our blogroll on the right side of the page, but in the interest of completeness:
- Jonathan Adler of The Volokh Conspiracy
- Radley Balko of The Agitator
- Robert Bluey of The Heritage Foundation and RobertBluey.com
- Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online
- Mary Katharine Ham of TownHall.com
- Megan McArdle of Asymmetrical Information at TheAtlantic.com
- Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit
Congrats to the other finalists, and thanks to the America’s Future Foundation for putting on the contest. We’ve made some basic plans about what we’ll do with the money if we win, but all I can say at the moment is that it will probably be the kind of event that divides history (i.e. pre and post-“that time the Commentator won 10k”). All fiscal conservatives will be invited.
