Recently, Chapeau Blog Awards announced its list of 2009 awards finalists.  Soon, one finalist from each category will be named the best blog in its industry.  One blog will be named 2009’s “Most Brilliant Blog” and take home our grand prize of $2,000!

To properly award this title, we need your help.  We need you and your blogging-savvy friends to join the 2009 voting panel of Chapeau Blog Awards.

We’ve made the process of becoming a voter for Chapeau Blog Awards, and awarding blogger brilliance, simple:
• Visit our Voter Registration Page to join our 2009 voting panel
• Visit our Awards Finalists Page between April 14th-April 30th
• Place your vote for blogger brilliance!

Celebrating blogger brilliance is no easy task.  Our selection committee has worked tirelessly to select the blog awards industry finalists for the 2009 Chapeau Blog Awards.  Reviewing so many excellent entries, and reading so much brilliant blog content, was a week’s long, night and day effort.

In the end, it was all worth it.   Below, we’ve selected a final list of twenty blogs that truly illustrate what it means to be a brilliant blog, and brilliant blogger, in 2009.

The Chapeau Blog Awards apologizes for any inconvenience experienced with our website being down this past weekend.

We are happy to announce, however, that we have extended the call for blogger brilliance by extending the Chapeau Blog Awards entry deadline until February 17th!

Our $2,000 grand prize and recognition for “Most Brilliant Blog” could still be yours – but hurry -  The Chapeau Blog Awards Online Awards ceremony is about to begin!

$2,000 will be awarded for 2009’s "Most Brilliant Blog" while 4 iPod Touch devices will be awarded for honorable mention positions!

The promise of a $2,000 grand prize, and recognition as “Most Brilliant Blog”, has generated an electric atmosphere in the virtual crowd gathering outside the Chapeau Blog Awards Online Awards Ceremony!

You and your "blogourages" (blogging entourage), are encouraged to join the ranks of the world’s most brilliant bloggers to lay claim to the $2,000 grand prize and worldwide recognition for blogger brilliance!

Enter Chapeau Blog Awards by January 30th, to register your blog
in categories including:
•    Arts & Design
•    Technology
•    Marketing & Advertising
•    Entertainment
•    And More!

The Chapeau Blog Awards latest blog review has arrived! It is here where The Chapeau Blog Awards’ dedicated team of reviewers put blogs to the ultimate test to let you know whether they’ll expand your mind or if they’re barely worth your time.

In this review, guest reviewer Jolina Pettice reviews the blog of Ted Earley, a fictional character from the hit NBC show, Life.  Earley, played by Adam Arkin, is a recent white collar parolee who finds himself living with another recent parolee whom he met in prison, wrongly convicted cop Charlie Crews.

The Chapeau Blog Awards has been working closely with Santa this year to help ensure we get the right gifts for brilliant bloggers like you!

Not only did he tell us that your holiday wish list includes recognition for your blogger brilliance, he let us know that since you’ve been such a good blogger this year, you’ve also asked for a cash prize!

Santa has been so busy this season, he’s recognized The Chapeau Blog Awards team as an honorary elf – and provided us the authority to make your holiday wishes come true!

Are you wondering how the blogging language has expanded over the last week?

We are too! The Chapeau Blog Awards team has been busy reviewing new blogerrific words over the long holiday break!

Have you submitted a word to help explain the world of blogging on BlogOh!Pedia?

It not – do so today – and once accepted you will receive a link to your site and and be credited full creative ownership.

Below, find a few of our favorites submissions from the last week:

-Blogomania – Excessive blogging
Coined by – Explorers of light – Photography – tips tricks photoshop lightroom

The BlogOh!Pedia is filling up fast with new blogtactular words from around the globe and beyond!

You too can live on eternally by submitting your newly created words to the BlogOh!Pedia.
Not only will we give you a link to your site, and full creative ownership, we’ll also provide you free entry into The Chapeau Blog Awards!

Below, find a few of our favorites submissions from the last week:

-Blogzilla – A contrary blogger who is aggressive, blunt and loves to cause turmoil.
Coined by Weddingzilla

Happy Thanksgiving from The Chapeau Blog Awards! In honor of our favorite holiday dedicated to eating, please find below our top 5 ways blogs are like Thanksgiving:

1. As much as people like the meat, they LOVE the dessert
Maybe this is why no matter what we claim to read, we always seem to know what Perez Hilton is talking about.

2. You’re always better off with a community
After all, what good is Thanksgiving without family?

The Chapeau Blog Awards recently introduced you to the BlogOh!Pedia – the latest channel for bloggers, like you, to submit and retain full creative ownership of the new blog phrases you create each day.

The icing on the cake, of course, is that anyone submitting a new word that is accepted into the BlogOh!Pedia by November 30th, receives free entry into The Chapeau Blog Awards!

While you probably don’t need any help getting started below, please find a few new words, just in case.

-  Bloops:  The phrase uttered when you inadvertently post something you really shouldn’t have posted.