Once again we’re on the shortlist for a glitzy media award. That’s “we” as in Magicalia, the company that owns BM and our various sister sites. Last year Magicalia was shortlisted in the UK Association of Online Publishers awards alongside such publishing giants as Reed and VNU. We didn’t win, but the dinner was good…

This time it’s the Netimperatives awards. Magicalia is shortlisted in the “Best Media Owner” category, which puts us up against Time Europe, Virgin Radio, Hello! Magazine and Reuters. So not much competition there, then. Erm.

“The Imperatives” aren’t a closed-door, judging panel thing, though – the awards are decided by public vote. Which means that we can hopefully flatter our gorgeous, supremely intelligent, witty, polite and unfailingly generous readers enough that they make a few mouse clicks and vote for us.

If you’ve got a spare couple of minutes, the voting form is at http://www.netimperative.com/awardsvote05/media. Thanks for your time…