More Shameless Self-Promotion

I'm very pleased to announce that my blog Virtualpolitik won the 2007 John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award. It's interesting to note that one of the criteria is that the blogger must "actively engage other academic weblogs; in other words, the blogger must be a public intellectual." The formal announcement is here. There are some good reads among the other nominees as well. Last year's winner was the excellent CultureCat, a great blog about rhetoric and feminism, which is unfortunately down for maintenance now.