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پیر 24 جنوری 2005Monday, January 24, 2005
Brass Crescent Honorable Mention
The results of the Brass Crescent Awards are out. I didn’t win but got honorable mentions in 3 of the 5 categories I was nominated. These categories were: Best writing (I am surprised), best series, and best non-English blog (surprised again as I do not write enough in Urdu.)
The winners in these categories were Haroon Mughal of Avari-Nameh (best writing; he was the big winner with 2 other wins as well), Leila M of Sister Scorpion (best series) and Asif Iqbal for his multilingual blog.
I found it interesting that among the non-English blogs the top two (Asif and me) were both Urdu blogs while we were the only Urdu nominees. It is surprising since Urdu is actually far behind other languages (like Farsi or even Arabic) in its Internet presence. May be Urdu blogs have really arrived! Ejaz, are you listening?
Thanks to alt.Muslim and City of Brass for organizing these awards.
Posted by Zack at January 24, 2005 12:05 AM in Internet , Islam and Other Religions
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Posted by: Al-Muhajabah (260 comments) at January 24, 2005 12:40 AM
Congrats on that one. deserving mention
Posted by: Moiz (62 comments) at January 24, 2005 4:37 AM
Congratulations!
About non-English blogs, there was no Farsi nominee, and I guess the visitors of the Brass Crescent webpage were mainly Pakistani.
Posted by: kianoush (116 comments) at January 24, 2005 4:46 AM
Congrats! The posts that I’ve enjoyed the most are those about “Israel-Pakistan”(2 of them?) and “Muslim populations in the world”. I havn’t got around to reading the one on Harun Yahya.
Posted by: Faraz Hussain (6 comments) at January 24, 2005 11:16 AM
Congratulations! I’m guessing the “I want to vote for Zack for something” vote just got split, kind of like how if two great players are on the same team neither will likely win the MVP.
I think the Urdu performance may reflect the language used by Brass Crescent voters. Farsi may have a bigger internet presence, but I’ve seen little evidence it crosses into mainstream Islamic blogging. I hear a lot about “Best Pakistani blog” for things, you, Sepoy, et al are certainly major web presences. And because I don’t speak Urdu, this is certainly not meant to take away from the top two finishers. If your English is any indication, you are certainly award-worthy.
Posted by: Brian Ulrich (56 comments) at January 24, 2005 11:23 AM
Congrats….. :)
ّچھا گئے ہیں جناب!!! آپ نے تو لٹ پا دی ہے ۔
Posted by: Asif (37 comments) at January 24, 2005 12:44 PM
Hearty Congrats!!
Posted by: Ali (15 comments) at January 24, 2005 12:51 PM
Al-Muhajabah: Congrats to you as well.
Moiz: Thanks. :-)
Kianoush: That’s true. As Brian mentions, there is not much intersection between the Persian and Islamic blogs.
Faraz: Thanks.
Brian: Thanks.
I’m guessing the “I want to vote for Zack for something” vote just got split,
Oh man, I should’ve given some guidance to my voters on that.
And you are definitely correct about why the Urdu blogs did well.
آصف: شکریہ۔
Ali: Thanks.
Posted by: Zack (1784 comments) at January 24, 2005 2:27 PM
Assalamoalaykum w.w.!
Congrats :)
Posted by: Asma (46 comments) at January 24, 2005 4:09 PM
Congratulations, Zack!
Posted by: sume (12 comments) at January 25, 2005 7:46 AM
Honorable Mention IS winning, I say! woohoO!
Posted by: Leila (20 comments) at January 25, 2005 2:27 PM
Cool!
Posted by: renee (121 comments) at January 26, 2005 11:06 AM
Thanks, Asma, sume, Leila, renee.
Leila: It is? See, in the competitive culture of Pakistan, being ranked 2nd meant one had lost.
Posted by: Zack (1784 comments) at January 28, 2005 12:52 PM | PGP Sig
2nd always means loads better than the rest of the competitors;) Hence, a good thang.
ANyway, we know this is a popularity contest, and some folks vote, some don’t. There’s hundreds and hundreds of Muslim blogs out there
Posted by: Leila (20 comments) at January 29, 2005 12:33 AM
Congratulations ! I always had high hopes from you and you never let me down. Keep it up. May God bless you with brilliant success always. Aaameen.
I like comment of Asif. “Lahori style”.
Posted by: Ajmal (312 comments) at February 8, 2005 1:39 AM
Leila: That’s a good point.
Dad: Thanks.
Posted by: Zack (1784 comments) at February 10, 2005 1:47 PM | PGP Sig
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Congrats on the honorable mentions. I got two as well, out of three categories I was nominated in. :-)