Still waiting to hear who made the cut for the 2007 Crunchies

I wrote this post about the Crunchies earlier in the month when the nomination forum for the award contest initially went up. Competing blogs GigaOm, Read/Write Web, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch are co-hosting the event with the hope of honoring this year’s most innovative start-ups, as well as other technological advances made in 2007.

The nomination process wrapped up on Dec. 13, and the Crunchies blog has been promising to post the 100 finalists (for all 20 categories) for several days now. People are beginning to get antsy, especially because the finalists need to go up before another round of live voting can begin, which will eventually determine the winner of each award. The deadline for announcing these finalists has been pushed back twice already, and the blog currently promises that the names will be up by Dec. 21.

That’s today, and it’s 3:43 p.m. eastern time right now. And I don’t see any names. The comment boards have been buzzing, to say the least. I’m interested to see who was nominated, but I’m also not overly agitated that the Crunchies committee has missed a few deadlines. I just wonder if they’ll have enough time to conduct a fair vote, especially with the ceremony scheduled for January 18, and the holidays knocking out a week’s worth of voting on top of the delays.

The names should be posted eventually, and I will try to provide you all with a recap of the finalists when that happens, as long as it doesn’t interfere with my eggnog drinking, gingerbread house making, present opening, and Christmas tree smelling. So yeah, you might have to wait until next week to hear back from me on this.

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