The site has just won several Bloggies awards -- these are chosen by the public and given to weblog writers.
Wheaton's site won the 2002 Award for 'Weblog of the Year' and topped several other categories, including 'Best New Weblog'.
There are 30 categories to vote for, and for this contest a 'weblog' is a page with dated enteries that has a purpose (in whole or in part) of linking to other sites. I'm not sure how, but this excludes purely private journals, and site news pages.
Other winners were Slashdot, FARK, MeFi, and Little, yellow, different!