The end of September has come and with it the end to voting in the 2011 Blogger's Choice Awards. Here comes the fun (and/or scary) part; counting the votes. With upwards of a 1000 votes cast in the past couple weeks, spread over the 10 categories, I have a bit of work on my hands. If only I made it simple and excluded the points system this would be no sweat but, with the 3 tiered system in place, the nominees are going to have to hang tight while I get this done. What's a voting session without some tension as we wait right? :) Hang in there folks, the winners will be unveiled next week!
In other news, the Blog of the Week initiative will launch again later this month after a several month hiatus. Be sure to stay tuned every Sunday when we do launch, as a new blog each week (of the over 300 listed) will be featured.
Also, to those who have requested to be added to the BlogRoll in the past few weeks, thanks for being patient. You'll all be added not long after the winners of these awards are counted and unveiled. Hang tight!
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24 Hours To Go
Head over to the voting page while you still can!
Counting The Vote
With now less than a week left to vote in the Awards (again, go vote here) it's quickly dawning on me that I have to count all these things. Perhaps I should be encouraging less votes at this point...
Nah, I only kid of course. Go on and vote. There's only 6 days left to do so! No need to worry about the necessity of the count. I have a plan of attack in place and have enlisted in some help from a good friend and fellow blogger, so I'll be fine.
As a reminder however, there is a three tier voting system wherby anonymous votes are worth one point, logged in voters are worth five points and votes from fellow BlogRoll members being worth ten points. This adds to the complexity of the count, but I'm so up for the challenge. It'll be fun! I like numbers, so lets get the totals up. Get out there and vote!
Nah, I only kid of course. Go on and vote. There's only 6 days left to do so! No need to worry about the necessity of the count. I have a plan of attack in place and have enlisted in some help from a good friend and fellow blogger, so I'll be fine.
As a reminder however, there is a three tier voting system wherby anonymous votes are worth one point, logged in voters are worth five points and votes from fellow BlogRoll members being worth ten points. This adds to the complexity of the count, but I'm so up for the challenge. It'll be fun! I like numbers, so lets get the totals up. Get out there and vote!
On Winning the Awards
While I can't promise grand gifts of any physical kind, what I can do is provide the 10 winners of these awards with as much promotion as I can within this network. The bigger bonus is that the promotion will last for a full year until the next awards session launch in 2012.
What will these promotions entail?
- Individual posts spotlighting each winner will be made a few days after the awards close and the votes are counted.
- Mini clickable images will be placed in this sidebar on this main blog and in the Blogger's Choice Awards section.
- Each winner will be publicized in the applicable category page with a larger clickable image plus RSS feeds for the blog.
- Everyone will also have the option to partake in 'Guest Blogging' features throughout the next year, meaning unique posts made here with links and promos to their blog found within. More on this later!
What I'm trying to say I guess is, all I can give is promotion to blogs, and whatever ways I could come up with to do that will be done!
One week to go...
Troubles Voting?
It's been reported in a couple of places as of late that some are having issues voting in some of the threads, some of the time. One such heads up came from fellow BlogRoll member Viewpoint who not only posted a comment (in this thread) about the issue, but also conducted some research into it as well. From what has been learned, not much can be done if it is happening to you, so it seems. I am looking into options or tips in the meantime...
I am curious to know how widespread the issue is though. Have many experienced any troubles attempting to post a vote on the voting page? Please let me know if so!
I am curious to know how widespread the issue is though. Have many experienced any troubles attempting to post a vote on the voting page? Please let me know if so!
Getting out the Vote
With candidates hitting the campaign trail in Newfoundland and Labrador, one may think this post would be referring to the upcoming election. Well, it's not. Nope, this post is in reference to the ongoing 2011 NL Blogger's Choice Awards of course. :)
As day 5 fades into the night we currently have nearly 500 votes cast, spread throughout all the categories. The sports and recreation thread is on fire at the moment with over 100 votes to itself. That could be a dog fight to the very end it seems. It will be interesting to see how all the categories turn out in fact, as the days move along here. Remember nominees, shameless self promotion isaccepted encouraged.
In getting out the vote I've been reaching out to the usual social media networks. The Facebook page has been notified, the Twitterverse informed and ever the traders within Empire Avenue know about this thing. With the number of votes already cast, it appears to be working and hopefully this number will continue to rise as the week progresses. Stay tuned!
Psst - I encourage you to vote in the actual election too. :)
As day 5 fades into the night we currently have nearly 500 votes cast, spread throughout all the categories. The sports and recreation thread is on fire at the moment with over 100 votes to itself. That could be a dog fight to the very end it seems. It will be interesting to see how all the categories turn out in fact, as the days move along here. Remember nominees, shameless self promotion is
In getting out the vote I've been reaching out to the usual social media networks. The Facebook page has been notified, the Twitterverse informed and ever the traders within Empire Avenue know about this thing. With the number of votes already cast, it appears to be working and hopefully this number will continue to rise as the week progresses. Stay tuned!
Psst - I encourage you to vote in the actual election too. :)
After Two Days of Voting
We are now on Day 3 of the 2011 NL Blogger's Choice Awards! So far nearly 300 votes have been cast spread over the 10 voting threads, which to me is impressive. The hot categories at the moment are the Entertainment / Media and Science / Technology ones, both of which have nearly 50 votes. The other threads aren't far behind and I'm sure as the days go by, things will pick up even more.
As a friendly reminder, you can vote once per day, per category. If you're a fellow NL BlogRol member, your vote counts a heck of a lot with the 10 points it's granted. Head on over the Voting Page now and have your say!
As a friendly reminder, you can vote once per day, per category. If you're a fellow NL BlogRol member, your vote counts a heck of a lot with the 10 points it's granted. Head on over the Voting Page now and have your say!
2011 Choice Awards Launched!
Voting for the 2011 NL Bloggers Choice Awards has been launched! 10 threads have been posted in the Blogger's Choice Awards section, each listing 3 nominees to vote on. To cast your vote, simple reply to the thread with you choice and that's it. Note that you can do so in all the categories and please remember, only one vote per day per category. Voting closes at the end of September.
To those who have been nominated, feel free to shamelessly promote your nomination. :)
Have fun!
To those who have been nominated, feel free to shamelessly promote your nomination. :)
Have fun!
Regarding the Nominees
Just in case frequent visitors missed this post from a while back (or new visitors are jumping in for the first time), I wanted to remind everyone of some of the criteria I used in selecting nominees for this years awards session. They are listed below in no particular order:
- Longevity - As this is the first year for these style awards, long standing members have been given a certain amount more consideration. There will be a much larger pool for selection next year.
- Frequency of posting - Those who post more were considered more. Makes sense to me anyway. :)
- Design - This was totally based on my opinion and believe me when I say that all were awesome, so this was moot really.
Having said that, I mainly just wanted to reiterate how difficult it was to select the final 30 to be put up for vote. You have no idea, trust me. The content of this collection (as I'm sure any browser already knows) is vastly diverse and all enveloped in awesomeness, so choosing only 30 out of over 300 was tough... and next year will only be more difficult. I think I'll have to put a nomination period in place or something... hmmm...
Anyway, let's stick to this year. 3 days!
Blogger's Choice Awards Set to Launch Sept 15th
Here's a run down of how things will work:
- NOMINEES: Each category listed to the right has 3 blogs carefully selected based on many elements; design, content, frequency of posting and longevity on the list to name a few. The decision was solely at the discretion of the organizer of this list (for this first year anyway).
- Early that day 10 posts will be made in the Blogger's Choice section, each listing the 3 nominees per category and will remain active for 2 weeks (well, 15 days) until the end of September. All one will have to do to vote is reply to the thread with their choice and that's it.
- TO VOTE: All one must do is reply to the voting thread listing their choice(s). It'll be as simple as that. There is one slight addition however; certain value is applied to the type of blogger who replies:
- NOTE: We are limiting the amount anyone can vote for any blog to be daily.
- Anonymous voters will be worth 1 point. They can't be ignored, but shouldn't be overvalued (and flood control will be applied just for good measure).
- Logged / linked in voters will be worth 5 points, as to me the non-anonymity of these votes are worth more.
- Votes from fellow NL Blogger's currently listed on the roll will be worth 10 grand points. These are our true peers after all and adding this interactivity will only be a bonus in the end.
- WINNER: The winner of each category will gain a tonne of free promotion, for a full year, within this site and the network it extends into. From promotional posts and badges on each category page, I have plenty of ideas up my sleeve for over the next year. I wish I could announce grand prizes of extreme extravagance, but these gifts of free promotion should not be undervalued I suppose. That's what any blogger wants right; traffic?
And with that, all that remains to do now is wait. Just a short wait however; 5 days. Just 5 days...
Choice Awards Prep
Shortlisted
As posted in the Bloggers Choice Awards section, 50 blogs have now been shortlisted. I will be finalizing the list of 30 (3 per category) as soon as possible. There are still some promotional and information items I'll have to take care of when the finalists are selected and time is running out. The thing is, it's rather difficult finalizing the list with so many awesome blogs to choose from.
Categorical Update
The most work I have to take care of before the dust settles within the awards, is finishing off the category pages that I've been working on. For those who don't know, I've been developing stand alone pages for the 10 categories we have within the BlogRoll here, each with a dedicated list of all the blogs found in that category. The intention is for a better browsing experience.
And just because I'm excited; if you'd like a sneak peak of what these pages are going to look like, check out a rough version of the Politics / Commentary one I've started. Keep in mind that this is not anywhere final, but it will give you an idea of where I'm going.
What's best about these stand alone pages is that it provides an opportunity to further promote the choice bloggers this year and beyond. Each category's page will have promotional items (badges, rss feeds, etc) for winner's blog for the entire year... and who knows where each page will go from there. With each category essentially now having it's own 'blog', the possibilities are endless really...
I should perhaps remain focused on the awards though. I have to remember that time is short and I am easily distracted... and with that, back at it!
Just a teaser...
In just a few short weeks, 30 carefully selected blogs from our beloved Newfoundland Labrador BlogRoll (of nearly 300 blogs) will be unveiled and for two weeks following, the people (visitors to this site) will vote on their favorites.
Voting will be simple. Each of the 10 categories will have a post with it's 3 selections displayed. All one will have to do is post a reply to that thread with their choice. It's as simple as that AND I am allowing one vote PER DAY. The way I see it, if someone is dedicated enough to vote more than once, I have to give kudos for that.
You may be wondering what is to gain from all this (besides you know, the fun of it all). Well, the winner of each category will gain a tonne of free promotion, for a full year, within this site and the network it extends into. I wish I could announce grand prizes of extreme extravagance, but these gifts of free promotion should not be undervalued I suppose. That's what any blogger wants right; traffic?
Well, hopefully the winners will enjoy what I have in store for them... but yeah, you'll have to wait on that. :)
Blogger's Choice Awards Update
As the summer rapidly approaches, I'm becoming increasingly more aware of the fact that my intended launch date for the 2011 NL Bloggers Choice Awards is coming soon. To stop teasing with the start date, I can let you know that early June is what I've been targeting, but that's all I'll elaborate on for now. I will say that this now gives me roughly one month to get everything in order... which is good because, as I become more aware of the date, I realize how much work I have to do.
Having said that, I can report that I have accomplished a lot over the past few weeks as well. One of the main tasks checked of the list being the launch of a stand alone blog to handle the awards section of our community here (which can be found using the main menu above). This is where the voting and everything else related to the awards will be taking place when we fully launch and for now, there is some great information about last years fun times found within.
Beyond that, I'm trying to find the time to finalize all the single category pages which I've been creating. It was my intention to launch each one as I announce the winners of this years awards, so I have to focus on getting that done in the next few weeks. More importantly, I also have to make final decisions on the three choices per category that will be going up for vote. This has actually turned out to be the most difficult task of all. There are just too darn many great blogs here, and picking only three in each category is really tough... really, really tough. I'll have to set a deadline for myself, or perhaps recruit and outsider to decide for me. That may work...
While I decide, I'll leave you with that as another update from the land of the NL Bloggers Choice Awards. I do realize that I've been teasing you with it for months but... who doesn't like a good tease, right? :)
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Having said that, I can report that I have accomplished a lot over the past few weeks as well. One of the main tasks checked of the list being the launch of a stand alone blog to handle the awards section of our community here (which can be found using the main menu above). This is where the voting and everything else related to the awards will be taking place when we fully launch and for now, there is some great information about last years fun times found within.
Beyond that, I'm trying to find the time to finalize all the single category pages which I've been creating. It was my intention to launch each one as I announce the winners of this years awards, so I have to focus on getting that done in the next few weeks. More importantly, I also have to make final decisions on the three choices per category that will be going up for vote. This has actually turned out to be the most difficult task of all. There are just too darn many great blogs here, and picking only three in each category is really tough... really, really tough. I'll have to set a deadline for myself, or perhaps recruit and outsider to decide for me. That may work...
While I decide, I'll leave you with that as another update from the land of the NL Bloggers Choice Awards. I do realize that I've been teasing you with it for months but... who doesn't like a good tease, right? :)
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Categorically Speaking
In further preparation for the coming NL Bloggers Choice Awards, I've decided to simplify things a little more within the categories. As they say, 'less is more' and with that thought in mind I've gone ahead and cut the number of categories from 14 down to 10, combining some logical choices. Each mini blogroll in the sidebar for the new listings have been updated, and if you're curious the final list is below:
What this now means for the awards, is that we will now be selecting only 10 of the best (as voted by you) blogs found in our community of over 200.
Also, just to keep you in the loop on some of the other items I've been working on; sometime in the near future I'll be launching stand alone pages for each of these new categories. I'm mainly doing this for a better browsing experience within the full site but, this also impacts the choice blogger awards. By that I mean, for each of these categories, the winners will gain a full year of promotion on their corresponding stand alone page: 'ads, links, RSS feeds and whatever else I can think of. Each page will essentially facilitate a new way to promote the choice bloggers and you gotta love that!
Now... if I could only find the time to get all this done. That's always the struggle but, as I push through it, I'm sure I'll keep you in the know as I always try to do. Stay tuned!
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- POLITICAL / COMMENTARY
- PHOTOGRAPHY
- MIXED BAG
- PERSONAL / JOURNAL
- SPORT / RECREATION
- ART / CRAFT / FOOD
- ENTERTAINMENT / MEDIA
- SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY
- EDUCATIONAL / BOOKS
- BUSINESS / TRAVEL
What this now means for the awards, is that we will now be selecting only 10 of the best (as voted by you) blogs found in our community of over 200.
Also, just to keep you in the loop on some of the other items I've been working on; sometime in the near future I'll be launching stand alone pages for each of these new categories. I'm mainly doing this for a better browsing experience within the full site but, this also impacts the choice blogger awards. By that I mean, for each of these categories, the winners will gain a full year of promotion on their corresponding stand alone page: 'ads, links, RSS feeds and whatever else I can think of. Each page will essentially facilitate a new way to promote the choice bloggers and you gotta love that!
Now... if I could only find the time to get all this done. That's always the struggle but, as I push through it, I'm sure I'll keep you in the know as I always try to do. Stay tuned!
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NL Bloggers Choice Award
The Newfoundland Labrador Bloggers Choice award is back and better than ever! Well, better than year one. This is only it's second year... but you get the point. Year two of this initiative features a dramatic shift in it's operation. I've decided, now that we have all the blogs categorized, it only makes sense to have winners for each separate grouping. So that's what we've done! That's right, now up to 10 winners will be chosen each year by their peers, deemed a NL Bloggers Choice Blog and featured heavily apon this site.
Here's how it will work:
As always, stay tuned...
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Here's how it will work:
- Each category listed to the right will have 3 blogs carefully selected based on many elements; design, content, frequency of posting, etc, etc and solely at the discretion of the organizer of this list (for the first year anyway).
- These blogs will then be put up for vote and voting is quite simple. All one must do is reply to the voting thread listing their choice(s). It'll be as simple as that. There is one slight addition however; certain value is applied to the type of blogger who replies:
- Anonymous voters will be worth 1 point. They can't be ignored, but shouldn't be overvalued (and flood control will be applied just for good measure).
- Logged / linked in voters will be worth 5 points, as to me the non-anonymity of these votes are worth more.
- Votes from fellow NL Bloggers currently listed on the roll will be worth 10 grand points. These are our true peers after all and adding this interactivity will only be a bonus in the end.
- Then, after a week of voting, the blog with the highest number of points in each category wins: Simple, well somewhat simple, but effective. :)
As always, stay tuned...
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We Begin Again
In late 2008, as a way to further help promote the blogs in our community here, we started a Blog of the Week initiative. While this little adventure was a huge success in itself, it was decided that to build the community further, something else was needed and voila; the NL Bloggers Choice was born... and with resounding success!
Before tomorrow and the start of a new round of Blog of the Weeks, I just wanted to recap the first ever Bloggers Choice awards which clued up just last week:
As I stop here and look at this now, I come to the realization that I perhaps put entirely too much thought into all this. Then again, you should see what I do as the commish for fantasy hockey league. Now that is obsessive compulsive. This is nothing!
So stay tuned for tomorrows blog because it all begins again. With these first round behind us and with what I believe to be improvements put in place, it's sure to be a fun ride! Let's see what happens shall we...
Before tomorrow and the start of a new round of Blog of the Weeks, I just wanted to recap the first ever Bloggers Choice awards which clued up just last week:
- Due to heavy promotion by the blog owners in the first round, an explosion of traffic came to this site resulting in thousands of votes. It was complete madness, in fact. With over 550 comments posted in the vote thread and 4800 votes cast via the Poll, I was completely blown away by the response.
- 'The Maintream Media' caught wind of the initiative and thought it interesting enough to talk about. I was on the Morning Show with Jeff Gilhooly, had a wonderful article by Kerri Breen published in The Telegram and was interviewed by Angela Antle of CBC's Weekend Arts Magazine who provided me with a link to a podcast of our talk.
- And of course two blogs won and those are again John Gushue... Dot, Dot, Dot and Bitstop. Congrats! Bravo.
- Instead of 10 blogs per round, I will up the total to 16. I did not want to saturate everything by going every 2 and a half months, PLUS I wanted to give more exposure to those that are voted the winners each round.
- With that thought, I'll also be inviting the winners to add exclusive content monthly to the hub here, with links back to their blogs of course. This is in effort to add a little more value to the NL Bloggers Choice Award.
- Voting will change as well. Instead of just a 2 fold system of poll votes and comment votes, I'm going to add further complexity to it all. The poll votes will remain the same, but the change comes with regards to how comments are valued. It'll now be a 3 fold system within itself:
- Anonymous posting will be worth 1 vote.
- Non (those with profiles or links to them) will be worth 2 votes.
- AND, in effort to further develop our community here, fellow NL Bloggers will be worth 5 votes. One vote only and distinguished with a link back to their blog in their comment.
As I stop here and look at this now, I come to the realization that I perhaps put entirely too much thought into all this. Then again, you should see what I do as the commish for fantasy hockey league. Now that is obsessive compulsive. This is nothing!
So stay tuned for tomorrows blog because it all begins again. With these first round behind us and with what I believe to be improvements put in place, it's sure to be a fun ride! Let's see what happens shall we...
And the Winner is...
After a whirlwind of a couple of weeks for myself and this blog which followed a response that completely blindsided me, this day came pretty quick. It seems like the contest just started, but now the votes have been cast and counted for our first ever NL Bloggers Choice award. It's now the moment we've all been waiting for; Announcing the winners! Let's get right to it shall we?
As you may have read, there are 2 winners for this award with those being the top 2 blogs out of the 24 listed with the most votes (by way of a Poll worth 1 point and Comments worth 2). The two winners this time around did a brilliant job at getting out the vote and truly commanded the lead in votes by doing so. In the end though, there is only one top winner and for this round, nobody got out a vote like John Gushue did. With that, his blog is declared the first place choice NL Blogger.
This was all very exciting folks. I have a recap of everything this week and also a couple of annoucements on some changes that'll come to the contest for the next round. For now, please take the time to not only the 2 wonderful winners and the 5 runners up but also all the blogs on the NL BlogRoll. It's a wonderful ride. Trust me.
Until next time, congratulations to all once again!
As you may have read, there are 2 winners for this award with those being the top 2 blogs out of the 24 listed with the most votes (by way of a Poll worth 1 point and Comments worth 2). The two winners this time around did a brilliant job at getting out the vote and truly commanded the lead in votes by doing so. In the end though, there is only one top winner and for this round, nobody got out a vote like John Gushue did. With that, his blog is declared the first place choice NL Blogger.
NL Bloggers Choice Award - Top Winner
2722 Points
NL Bloggers Choice Award - 2nd Place Winner
1774 Points
Congratulations to both of you. It is well deserved!
Besides the 2 winners, I'd like to share some love to the 5 blogs who were runners up in the contest. They are as listed below. Please take the time to visit and say hello.
This was all very exciting folks. I have a recap of everything this week and also a couple of annoucements on some changes that'll come to the contest for the next round. For now, please take the time to not only the 2 wonderful winners and the 5 runners up but also all the blogs on the NL BlogRoll. It's a wonderful ride. Trust me.
Until next time, congratulations to all once again!
Final Push
Before you do anything else,
GO HERE to VOTE for your choice NL Blogger!
The final push for votes is on with just over 12 hours to go until everything ceases and the counting begins. As it currently stands, we have 4513 votes in the poll and 513 comments in the vote post which is a massively unexpected amount.
And you know what, it's just now dawning on me that... I have to count all those...
GO HERE to VOTE for your choice NL Blogger!
The final push for votes is on with just over 12 hours to go until everything ceases and the counting begins. As it currently stands, we have 4513 votes in the poll and 513 comments in the vote post which is a massively unexpected amount.
And you know what, it's just now dawning on me that... I have to count all those...
Two Days Remain
As per normal as of late, if you have yet to do so, before you do anything else,
GO HERE to VOTE for your choice NL Blogger!
With only 2 days remaining for the vote process, we now have 3916 votes in the poll and 471 comments in the vote thread. The turnout continues to impress the heck out of me and what's best is that it's not over yet. Lots of votes can come in just over 48 hours, so keep the votes comin'!
In other news...
For those waiting to be added to the list (or have something updated), please be patient. I'll be getting to that next week, among a few other things I'd like to knock off my To-Do list.
Related to that, if anyone knows anyone who owns a blog that is not on this list, that SHOULD be on this list, please have them contact me so that they're included. Our family here can never be too big, so be sure to pass the link on.
Not much else to share beyond that right now, but please remember to GO VOTE for your favorite NL Blogger!
GO HERE to VOTE for your choice NL Blogger!
With only 2 days remaining for the vote process, we now have 3916 votes in the poll and 471 comments in the vote thread. The turnout continues to impress the heck out of me and what's best is that it's not over yet. Lots of votes can come in just over 48 hours, so keep the votes comin'!
In other news...
For those waiting to be added to the list (or have something updated), please be patient. I'll be getting to that next week, among a few other things I'd like to knock off my To-Do list.
Related to that, if anyone knows anyone who owns a blog that is not on this list, that SHOULD be on this list, please have them contact me so that they're included. Our family here can never be too big, so be sure to pass the link on.
Not much else to share beyond that right now, but please remember to GO VOTE for your favorite NL Blogger!
5 Days and Counting
If you have yet to do so, before you do anything else,
GO HERE to VOTE for your choice NL Blogger!
As of right now there are 2338 votes in the poll and 278 comments posted in the vote thread. Wowzers!
In other news, the wonderful Angela Antle provided me with a link to the podcast of our chit chat we had the other day regarding the Blogroll, which was aired on Sunday morning during CBC's Weekend Arts Magazine. You should all go check it out. Don't laugh at me though!
AND I'm sure if anyone caught it, but a wonderful article by Kerri Breen was published in The Telegram today. It was very lovely meeting Kerri and just wanna take this time to say thanks a billion!
Oh and I almost forgot (because I'm not used to such early mornings) I was on the Morning Show with Jeff Gilhooly today as well. Thanks Jeff and everyone over at CBC Radio.
All in all, this is fantastic promotion for all the blogs here and blogging in Newfoundland, generally speaking. Thanks to everyone for participating so fully that this much attention was made aware of us. It's all very overwhelming at this point...
But there are still 5 days and counting, so as I end this, please remember to GO VOTE!
GO HERE to VOTE for your choice NL Blogger!
As of right now there are 2338 votes in the poll and 278 comments posted in the vote thread. Wowzers!
In other news, the wonderful Angela Antle provided me with a link to the podcast of our chit chat we had the other day regarding the Blogroll, which was aired on Sunday morning during CBC's Weekend Arts Magazine. You should all go check it out. Don't laugh at me though!
AND I'm sure if anyone caught it, but a wonderful article by Kerri Breen was published in The Telegram today. It was very lovely meeting Kerri and just wanna take this time to say thanks a billion!
Oh and I almost forgot (because I'm not used to such early mornings) I was on the Morning Show with Jeff Gilhooly today as well. Thanks Jeff and everyone over at CBC Radio.
All in all, this is fantastic promotion for all the blogs here and blogging in Newfoundland, generally speaking. Thanks to everyone for participating so fully that this much attention was made aware of us. It's all very overwhelming at this point...
But there are still 5 days and counting, so as I end this, please remember to GO VOTE!
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