It's an honor just to have been recognized. Naturally, the far more satisfying honor is actually winning the thing, but whatever. We'll take what we can get. [Twitter] Vote/Inauguration Report was named a "notable entry" in the 2009 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, amongst such fine company as the Washington Post's TimeSpace feature and the Boston Globe's The Big Picture. Congratulations to all involved.

The word for this is, quite simply, awesome. It's going to take all my narrative powers to tell this story quickly in a way that makes any sense. But as the pirates say, 'ere goes.