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		<title>Help promote the Brass Crescent Awards with badges!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you a blogger? Hoping for nominations to your own site? Then please help us get the word out about this year&#8217;s Brass Crescent Awards, using any of these cool badges designed by Shahed! Just copy and paste the HTML above whichever badge you choose:
(and don&#8217;t forget to remind your readers that the nomination period [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brasscrescent.talkislam.info/2009/10/13/help-promote-the-brass-crescent-awards-with-badges/</link>
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		<title>new category: Best Retired Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Brass Crescent Awards are officially underway, and we want to highlight a new category for nominations: Best Retired Blog:
BEST RETIRED BLOG: What blog or blogger, now retired or on extended hiatus, do still remember fondly and most wish were still with us? This is a way to honor those blogs of yesteryear that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brasscrescent.talkislam.info/2009/10/08/new-category-best-retired-blog/</link>
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		<title>Nominations phase open for the 6th Annual Brass Crescent Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to the Brass Crescent Awards! The categories this year:
BEST BLOG: This category honors the most indispensable, Muslim-authored blog there is. Period.
BEST WRITER: Who is the most stimulating, insightful, and philosophically wise among us? This category is intended to highlight a blogger who may not post daily, but when they do post, they really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brasscrescent.talkislam.info/2009/10/08/nominations-phase-open-for-the-6th-annual-brass-crescent-awards/</link>
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		<title>Brass Crescent Awards Winners 2008/1429</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On behalf of City of Brass and altmuslim, we would like to congratulate the following winners of this year&#8217;s Brass Crescent Awards! 

We also would like to thank our judges&#8217; panel and our sponsor, Kube Publishing!
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		<link>http://brasscrescent.talkislam.info/2008/12/23/brass-crescent-awards-winners-20081429/</link>
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		<title>Honorable Mention winners 2008/1429</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Brass Crescent Awards have concluded! Here are the runners-up (Honorable Mention). Note that Mr. Moo stands out as having won in three categories, which I believe is a BCA record! 

Congrats to all of our Honorable mention winners!
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		<link>http://brasscrescent.talkislam.info/2008/12/23/honorable-mention-winners-20081429/</link>
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		<title>Muslim Matters critiques the Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Muslim Matters &#8211; one of the nominees for Best Group Blog in this year&#8217;s Brass Crescent Awards &#8211; an interesting discussion thread is developing where they take the Awards to task for promoting (in their view) overly &#8220;progressive&#8221; blogs instead of traditional ones. 
One of the comments expresses surprise that Muslim Matters was &#8220;left [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brasscrescent.talkislam.info/2008/12/15/muslim-matters-critiques-the-awards/</link>
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		<title>The contest so far&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to you, we&#8217;re well on our way to having the highest number of votes ever in a Brass Crescent Awards contest. And just in case you don&#8217;t think voting will make a difference, we can tell you that in the majority of contests in this year&#8217;s BCA, the top two vote-getters are separated by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brasscrescent.talkislam.info/2008/12/09/the-contest-so-far/</link>
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		<title>The 5th Annual Brass Crescent Awards 1429/2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Brass Crescent Awards for 1429 are now officially underway. Voting phase has begun, so go vote at brasscrescent.org!
 
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		<link>http://brasscrescent.talkislam.info/2008/12/03/hello-world/</link>
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