The Bloggie finalists are finally up. Of last year's nominees only Dooce has returned, so I'll be reading nine(!) weblogs for my project.

Oh, and go vote. You have until January 31st.

I'm not going to give out recommendations this time, mainly because it's going to take me a while to make up my mind about a few of these categories. "Best web application for weblogs" is facing off Flickr vs. Blogger vs. Delicious vs. Sitemeter, all of which I love.

Remember to poke around a bit in the categories that interest you. I've already found a few websites worth visiting regularly.