Wriging

I'm voting for you guys everyday! :)

I'm up for Best Science Blog (Bootstrap Analysis). Have no expectation or burning desire to win, but would like to not be too embarrassed, so long as ya'll are tossing votes around.

Don't forget that it is a great achievement to just be finalists. Everything isn't always about winning even though it's a nice bonus.

I feel like a little ant fighting against elephants the few times I've been up to something like this, but it sure is FUN to holding stands :-P

Last year I had Dooce in my category.... *giggles*

Yeah we stand no chance against the power of Fark.

Another bonus with this is that it may lead new visitors to the site, even though we don't win :-)

It's a very low cost marketing....

I've made a post today where I link to all of you buttkicking finalists guys in the end.

Let me know if you don't want to have your link there: Kick My Butt

Oh, I'm having FUN!!!!! *giggles*

Now it's too close for comfort. I might actually win this.

If you've got the time, now's the time to vote guys. Today's the last day.

Kami's only 10 votes behind!

(Here's the link again to save you clicks).

So, the Weblog Awards is over for this year. Ah, it was fun as long as it were going!

I really thought that Kami would win there, but no... However, that was very well done in that majestic fight Kami :-)

And all of you: congratulations for doing so good and be proud over the fact that you were finalists, it's an honor in itself.

Though there is something that made me very surprised.

How come that 9rules Network only got 178 votes? We're many members here, surely one could have expected the members to vote for our community?

Consider these facts:

I got 112 votes myself, without doing any campaign other than putting up the voting button in the end of my posts during the week. Not much more than that.

9rules got 178 votes. That's wayyyyyy to few votes for a community like this.

Where were everybody?

Even if boycotting the competition for some reason, one still should be loyal to 9rules and vote to lift forward the community in some highlight - and therefor also ourselves.

See the results here:

The 2007 Weblog Awards Winners

I voted for 9rules everyday. Even if we couldn't contend against the rest of the other communities, I think at the end of it, it's voter apathy. We know for a fact that this is a popularity contest and I think that (rather, I would like to think that) most of us know that 9rules doesn't need that kind of validation to prove us being good so most of us didn't bother voting in the first place.

We don't need quantity to realize the quality we have.

As for me, they did take off 80 votes from me because they claim it was from 1 IP address. Don't know how that happened, but I sure didn't do that. Otherwise I really would have gone head to head. Still...280+ votes on my part. That's pretty spiffy in itself. Thanks everyone for chipping in their votes. I really appreciate that a lot. :)

9rules got 178 votes. That's wayyyyyy too few votes for a community like this.

In one way, I totally agree with that.

Even if boycotting the competition for some reason, one still should be loyal to 9rules and vote to lift forward the community...

In another, I'm not so sure about this one.

We're a community of strong-willed, self-conscious, confident bloggers. Was it Richard Dawkins who said: "Organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority"?

I suppose something similar went on in 9r. We don't need a blog award or recognition from strangers who never visit in the first place.

Or, as Kami said:

We don't need quantity to realize the quality we have.

Who knows?