2005 Business Blogging Awards Update
By Michael on Feb 7, 2005 in Blogging
Thanks to all of you who voted for my site in the “Best Financial Industry/Investment Blog” category. I really appreciate the votes. For those who have yet to vote, you can still do so. It’s a very tight race — right now I’m in third place, but just 5 percentage points away from first place. So if you’d like to see me win please vote. Just click here to vote for your favorite in the finance category.
As a slight aside, I find it interesting how our category is the only one of the twenty categories that has turned into a spam-fest in the comments. It’s full of spam comments from other bloggers (who should know better) saying “look at my site too” or “my site is better”, etc. (Uh, as you saw here, nominations were last month.) I wonder what that says about this corner or the blogosphere…
P.S. I even got called “way too wordy” by one of the commenters. My old English teachers would die laughing at that remark. 
P.P.S. Wow, people are really serious about these awards — somebody even put out a press release about their nomination.
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5 Comment(s)
By Mousefinger on Feb 7, 2005 | Reply
I even got called “way too wordy” by one of the commenters.
Hah! Prolixity is the last thing I think of when reading your posts. I think you get to your point in a rather timely, cogent fashion. Your site and the way your analyze charts for people is well thought out and never drags on.
Who ever posted that comment probably suffers from ADD.
By Michael on Feb 7, 2005 | Reply
“Prolixity” — Your vocabulary is most impressive!
By Roger Nusbaum on Feb 7, 2005 | Reply
I have gotten (so much for my prolixity) a real hoot out of the whole thing from the me too comments to Gary having 75,000 votes to my 9! Congrats on what looks like your site getting the nod!
By Michael on Feb 7, 2005 | Reply
Yeah Roger, the whole thing is rather amusing. I think the contest would be more fair if they just let a panel of judges decide the winners. As it stands now it’s basically a popularity contest.
By John Mudd, Inside Real Estate Journal on Feb 9, 2005 | Reply
We started out as the frontrunner for The Peacock Award, but when we noticed Weblogs, Inc.’s nominee had begun to edge ahead of us, there was only one thing we could do to remain true to our “most self important” reputation, and that’s issue a press release distributed through two press release services (rather than just one) in four different forms (rather than just one), all about us and how great we are! Anything less would simply have not fit a nominee for The Peacock Award (Most Self Important).
Stay tuned to Inside Real Estate Journal for the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s story about us and some other nominees.