Um. I. Um. Wow. (And with that eloquent acceptance, Shawn loses the Best Column award.) Seriously, I'm stunned and honored to get voted as the best columnist this year. Thank you so much. But really, with our columnists, it's like picking a favorite ice cream—unless you drop it on the floor, it's hard to go wrong!

• Shawn Powers' The Open-Source Classroom 18.7%

• Kyle Rankin's Hack and / 16%

• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell 13.2%

• Zack Brown's diff -u 14.1%

• Other 10.8%

• Doc Searls' EOF 8.5%

• Joey Bernard's Science Column 7.3%

• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge 6.4%

• James Gray's New Products 5.1%