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Passport wins 'Best of the Web' award

Tue, 04/15/2008 - 2:53pm

I'm very pleased to announce that Passport has won Media Industry Newsletter's (min) "Best of the Web" award for 2008 in the blog category. It's a great honor to have competed against quality offerings like New York magazine’s Vulture, Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch, PC Magazine’s GoodCleanTech, Variety’s Scribe Vibe, and Bravo TV’s expansive roster of blogs. (For more details on the award, check out our press release.)

When FP first launched the blog in April 2006, we had little inkling Passport would become the phenomenon it is today. For that, we have you, our loyal readers, to thank, as well as the many contributors who have written here or ensured that everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.

And now I have a task for you, dear readers: What should we do differently in the coming year ahead to stay fresh? Longer posts? Shorter posts? More posts? Fewer posts? More open threads? More interviews and guest posts? More coverage of international sex scandals? What editorial features would you like to see added, changed, or dropped? What topics do you think we should cover more/less?

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Congratulations

by Lure D. Lou on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 2:31pm

You guys do a GREAT job. Personally though I would like to see more Macedonia coverage...it seems to bring out all the irredentist crazies...

Congrats

by boz on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 3:27pm

Congrats on the award. Perhaps in your morning updates you can give Latin America its own category instead of listing it as "elsewhere."

Congratulations

by Stark on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 7:10pm

I'm a frequent reader and feel that you all are doing a great job.

For input...

Instead of "Hot Topics" put instead links to various topics and list them in a left column (or a clearly visible area).

A Suggestion

by Archchancellor on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 10:05pm

This blog rocks - one of my primary news sources/nexuses (nexi?) and full of tasty links, information, and levity.

One suggestion comes to mind: on longer articles, I'm not always sure that I want to invest the time reading them if they're not clearly on a hotbutton topic for me. Perhaps a single sentence or two sentence abstract to begin the article would be helpful, serving either as a teaser or as a summary, depending on whether or not the topic is ultimately interesting.

Thanks for making this blog so excellent!