Best of the Batavian — 2008 Edition

Today and tomorrow, The Batavian will run down its Top Ten Posts and the Top Ten Stories of 2008, and we're asking you to help us decide which is the best. Of course, our 2008 began in May, when The Batavian launched, so this will be a short year countdown. No matter. We've had plenty of content. So much great content, in fact, that we're going to do this in two parts. Here's how it's going to work:

Today, we will search through our past content, looking for ten of the most interesting, well-written, most impactful posts of the past eight months. Those posts could have come from our own staff or contributors from the community. Once we've culled ten, we'll introduce a few at a time throughout the day, talk a little bit about why they deserve a spot in the top ten and link to each post so that you can check them out for yourselves. Then, at the end of the day, we'll get up a survey asking you to decide which of the ten posts deserves the number one spot.

Then, tomorrow, we will do the same, but instead of looking for specific posts, we will round up the ten most impactful stories of the past eight months—stories that drew the crowds to The Batavian, stories that were covered voraciously by our staff and our readers/contributors out in the community. Stories that needed not one but five or even ten posts to convey all the rich details of what went on. We will get them up in the same manner, and again, a survey at the end of the day will decide our number one pick.

So get ready. And if you've got some recommendations in the meantime, don't hesitate to pass them along.