If you haven’t checked out the Nunavut Blogs! blogroll in a while, there has been some more blogs added, eight in total now. Arctic Bay is no longer my exclusive blogging domain, for amongst the new blogs is Way Way Up. Way Way Up is the blog of Darcy, one of the local teachers here.
2007 has been designated as an International Polar Year. For those of you unfamiliar with the International Polar Years, there have been two others (in 1882/83 and 1932/33) and an International Geophysical Year (1957/58). They are periods of intense study of the polar regions, and with the impact of climate change on the polar regions they could not be more timely. For more information you can visit the International IPY site, or Canada’s IPY site. A history of the International Polar Years can be found here.
And I finally got over to the 2006 Bloggies to see who the winners were. I was disappointed that Duncan at Ben Cruachan Blog didn’t win in Best Australian/New Zealand Blog, his was by far the best of that bunch. To be honest, not many of the winners hold a lot of appeal to me. Notably though, one that did interest me, PostSecret, won several awards: Best American Blog, Best Topical Blog, Best Community Blog, Best New Blog, and Weblog of the Year. If you’ve never visited, you really should have a look. As they put it "PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard". Some very interesting and powerful post cards there. But at the end of the day… no bootstrap analysis, no Whippoorwill, no Botanizing, no pohanginapete, no… well almost anybody from my sidebar. Just what were those voters thinking?
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Thanks for the kind words Clare, seems that there are a lot more people interested in craft and day to day happenings than the natural world around us. Anyway the blog has registered around 10,000 hits since the nominees were announced so maybe we’ve got some new converts! Cheers!