The culture category contains blogs with a central focus on culture, books, entertainment, food and craft. The category excludes music blogs. There were enough of them to merit their own category. These blogs will be celebrated on Monday.

I know it’s a bit of an odd category, but I thought it was worth creating it in order to highlight a broader range of blogs.

• 5. Pining for the West
• 4. Domestikated
• 3. A Wee Bit of Cooking
• 2. My Portis Wasp says
• 1. A Son of the Rock

The first category to be announced in the Scotblogs Awards is blogs by politicians. This includes bloggers who are currently Parliamentarians or Councillors, and PPCs who aspire to be.

• 10. Councillor Andrew Burns’ Really Bad Blog
• 9. Councillor Paul Johnston
• 8. David Fagan
• 7. Cllr Debra Storr
• 6. Eric Joyce MP
• 5. What Oor Willie Did Next
• 4. And another thing…
• 3. Stephen’s Linlithgow Journal
• 2. Calum Cashley
• 1. Indygal Goes to Holyrood

Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote in the Scotblogs awards. A staggering 1,651 votes were cast.

The plan now is to slowly reveal the results, with around two category winners per day being announced. Here is the schedule. Each day I will publish a list of the top five or ten blogs in a category.

Thursday 28 January

• Politicians
• Culture

Friday 29 January

• SNP / pro-independence
• Photography

Saturday 30 January

• Liberal Democrat
• Sport

Monday 1 February

• Conservative / libertarian
• Music
• Hyperlocal

Tuesday 2 February

• Journalist / mainstream media
• Labour
• Nature / environment / Green

Wednesday 3 February

• Science / technology
• Political

Thursday 4 February

• Personal / general
• Newcomer

Friday 5 February

• Overall

No doubt I will have made some mistakes in my categorisation. Please let me know if you spot that I have put a blog in a category where it doesn’t belong.

There is not long left now! With less than a day to vote now, don’t delay — cast it now. The poll will close at 8pm on Wednesday.

Here are the individual categories in which blogs will be awarded:

• Overall
• Newcomer
• Conservative / Libertarian
• Culture / Entertainment (excluding music)
• Hyperlocal
• Journalist / Mainstream media
• Labour
• Lib Dem
• Music
• Nature / Environment / Green
• Non-political / personal
• Photography
• Political
• Politician (including PPCs)
• Science / Technology
• SNP / Pro-independence
• Sport

I know that some of these categories push together some groups that may not necessarily fit snugly. But in an attempt to represent the wide spectrum of blogs, while avoiding lists of just three blogs per category in some instances, I have had to make a few compromises.

43 blogs will count as ‘newcomers’, ie. blogs that were set up in 2009.

I have been remiss in failing to announce the final panel before now. Here are the fifteen bloggers and tweeters who will make up the panel, whose votes combined will be worth 50% of the tally.

• Colin Campbell
• Lis Ferla
• Stephen Glenn
• Lily Greenan
• Armin Grewe
• Yousuf Hamid
• Malcolm Harvey
• Holyrood Patter
• Philip Hunt
• James Mackenzie
• Misssy M
• Will Patterson
• Sara
• Scottish Tory Boy
• Duncan Stephen

If you haven’t got round to voting yet, do it quickly! The poll ends at 8pm on Wednesday.

I will reveal the full list of categories tomorrow.