It's not a major tragedy, but it's a shame because they have been interesting and fun in previous years. Here is the message posted at the Weblog Award site this morning:Unfortunately the resources required to handle the load of voting (nearly 1,000,000 votes in 2008) could not be adequately provisioned. Even if the servers and bandwidth required appeared today it would be at least a few weeks before everything could be ready for voting.
This has always been a very, very labor intensive process, and in recent years with our success a very expensive competition to run. It's hard to have unlimited resources provisioned for seven days of voting. In the past we've had to provision expensive servers for several months to prepare for the crush of voting...
Rather than run a competition that had a high possibility of technically failing, the more prudent choice seemed to be regroup and consider our alternatives for hosting these awards going forward.
The Webby Awards are still pending, but they focus primarily on the major blogs and websites and have a large entry fee. In the absence of Weblogs this year, I'll try to revive TYWKIWDBI's Recommended Blogs topic, which has been relatively quiescent. Stay tuned.
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