Move afoot to fire-up the Blogisattva Awards

An interesting development this morning: Buddhobloggers Kyle Lovett [of The Reformed Buddhist and Progressive Buddhism fame] and Nate DeMontigny [of Precious Metal: the blog fame] expressed an interest in getting the Blogisattva Awards going again.

I said Hooray!, of course.  And already things are churning.

Nate has put up a post at the Blogisattva blogsite, "Blogisattva is making a comeback!" And has updated the top-of-the-sidebar scrolling marquee to read: 

The Blogisattva Awards are on
the way back.

We are in the process of
selecting an independent
committee to judge and award
the submissions.

Categories will be announced

soon and then the nomination
process will begin!

The Blogisattvas had been awarded early in the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 to honor Buddhism blogging for the prior calendar years.

Top winners from the past:

Blog of the Year, Svaha!

• 2006 Zen Under the Skin
• 2007 Integral Options Cafe
• 2008 One foot in front of the other

Blogpost of the Year

• 2006 "Katrina's Charities"; Wonderings on the Way; Jeb
• 2007 "Vesak and the Art of Changing Tyres"; This is This; Cliff Jones
• 2008 "Addressing Comments from the Meditation Thread"; Tricycle Blogs Jeff Wilson; Jeff Wilson

The Wordsmithing Award

• 2006 F Kwan; foot before foot: the photoblog
• 2007 Will Buckingham; thinkBuddha and willbuckingham.com blog
• 2008 Ed Brickell; Bad Buddha  [6/14/10: Ed now blogs Run with Mu]

It will be great to see the awards revived, with new blood and new ideas brought forward. You go, guys!

BTW, a discussion is going on about reviving the awards in a Tricycle group, "Resurrect the Blogisattvas?"