by Matt Barr

Watcher's Council ketchup

Blog lag has claimed posts on the last two rounds of Watcher's Council winners. Here, I avenge their loss.

Of the posts nominated for the week ending December 22, Dr. Sanity's The Idiot's Guide to Victimhood won by a nose in the Council category, while Prof. Kerr's outstanding NSA wiretap analysis, cleverly entitled Legal Analysis of the NSA Domestic Surveillance Program at Volokh, won the non-Council set. See the complete points totals and more worthy posts here.

Of those posts nominated for the week ended December 29, Gates of Vienna's moving Above Thy Deep and Dreamless Sleep... and Sigmund, Carl and Alfred's The New, Updated, Alice in Wonderland saw the winner's circle. See voting results and lots of fine links, prechewed for easy digestion, here.

What is the Watcher's Council? The rules are here, and the basics are: Twelve bloggers, including your correspondent, nominate a post of their own from the previous week and a post from elsewhere in the blogosphere for consideration. Then they vote on which is the best in each category (Council/non-Council), never for their own. The result is a useful review of the best of the blogosphere for the preceding week, which Wacther posts every Friday (and we Council members summarize when we're good and ready). It's fun, challenging -- both in terms of voting and nominating -- and rewarding. So now you know, if you didn't. The blogs belonging to the Watcher's Council appear on the right stripe of my home page in my blogroll, and you should blogroll them all, too.

If you're a blogger looking for more exposure -- who isn't! -- Watcher has a deal where he'll use host's privilege to nominate worthy posts suggested by you and your contemporaries who impress him most. There are some rules, helpfully summarized here. The deadline is 8pm Eastern each Tuesday. Check it out!

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