The 2005 Koufax Awards for "Best Expert Blogs" have now been compiled for your reading pleasure. This category seeks to honor those who bring particular expertise, by way of knowledge, experience, or academic achievement, to a particular topic. As the years have passed, it's become more difficult to compile as many bloggers have essentially, through their own work and research, become the "experts" we know and trust for our information on important topics. However, outside of the blogosphere, the meaning of "expert" is more proscribed, and so the people administering the Koufax Awards are using that meaning of the concept.
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