Over 800 nominations. Over 150,000 hits. Love from Comedy Central. All of this in five days.

Clearly, there was a need for hot blogging to be recognized. We respect you for answering that need, and we are honored to be the vessel by which you do that.

Actually, that’s a lie. We’re terrified by the rabid ferocity of your Hot Blogger enthusiasm, and we constantly ask each other what on earth we’ve gotten ourselves into.

But hey, it’s too late now, right? So. Onward and upward!

The week of voting commences at midnight and goes until midnight on Sunday, Aug. 31. At this point, no new nominations will be accepted. Each voter gets one male blogger vote and one female blogger vote in the voting period. C’est tout. So make ‘em good, people.

As ever, if anyone you know should be blogging or podcasting or talking or writing about this: tell them. If you or anyone you know is interested in, as they used to say on the game shows, promotional consideration – everything from car service to flights to hotels to shoot space to lighting to props to drinks to food to clothes to jewelry to hair – if it can help make the Hot Blogger Calendar better, and recognition would be a useful benefit: tell us!

(Especially: if we can find a FlipTV camera, we can begin adding video posts to document the insanity process.)