It's Not Whether You Win Or Lose, But How Well You Blog About It
And now the end is near, and so I face my final curtain.
In other words, The King of Blogscontest is coming to a close.
By the untrained eye it might seem like AOGB is in the lead. After all, one quick glance at the poll shows this to be true. But unfortunately, this is not the only factor that goes into winning the coveted title. If you didn't vote by the way, don't feel bad. My own boyfriend didn't get around to voting for me either. My I'm laying it on thick today, aren't I?:)
As for the other factors. Well, there's trackback, which I've worked dilligently on this past week, but to no avail. There's also the two posts in which the writer was judged, It's All About The Wheaton, and a submitted post of my choosing. I chose You Wanna Be Startin' Something? because it had a lot of comments which I thought translated to, "it had a good beat and you could dance to it." The remaining factor was overall layout design.
According to at least one of the three judges I failed inspection in every area.
Clicking on the link not only brings you to the judges comments, but it also lets you view the competition if you haven't already done so. I'd love your honest comparisons. It woud be interesting to hear the thoughts of people who read me from day to day because they, for some God forsaken reason, actually want to.:)
Still, after looking over the criteria for judging more closely, I realized I was sadly amiss in three major areas.
1. Llamas-No, I'm not kidding. Apparently without llamas, you ain't nothing.
2. Kissing Up- I admit it. I linked to the judges and I visited their sites, but I didn't pay homage to them in any of my posts this week. At the risk of making, "the dog ate my homework" like excuses, I could say I was distracted, which is the truth considering I had major car issues and the NJ ASK back to back. But if the real truth has to be told, I'm just not that kind of blogger. If I'm going to best of anything I'm going to be it cause I just am, not because I kissed ass to get there. That would make me no better than well, 98% of Hollywood.
3. It's Like, A Prayer- After reviewing the sites involved I realized that many of them had one common denominator, religion. While many people have mistakenly stumbled upon this site assuming it might be about religion given the title, they quickly realized it's not. In fact, it's not really about any one thing. This makes some people mad. This, in turn, makes me laugh.
So there you have it, should I still, somehow emerge the winner after this thing is all over, I would go back into the ring to defend my title against two new, worthy opponents, just like in Star Search's semi-finals. But if I don't make it, it's ok. I don't think Justin Timberlake wowed McMahon back then either and just look at how that turned out.
Update- I didn't win. As it turns out, none of the judges liked me. Who knew? Oh well, I guess I'll just take my ball and go home.:)
Post update to the update- Wil Wheaton. Boy was that post lost on you people. And here I thought all this time you were right there with me on the sarcasm...
In other words, The King of Blogscontest is coming to a close.
By the untrained eye it might seem like AOGB is in the lead. After all, one quick glance at the poll shows this to be true. But unfortunately, this is not the only factor that goes into winning the coveted title. If you didn't vote by the way, don't feel bad. My own boyfriend didn't get around to voting for me either. My I'm laying it on thick today, aren't I?:)
As for the other factors. Well, there's trackback, which I've worked dilligently on this past week, but to no avail. There's also the two posts in which the writer was judged, It's All About The Wheaton, and a submitted post of my choosing. I chose You Wanna Be Startin' Something? because it had a lot of comments which I thought translated to, "it had a good beat and you could dance to it." The remaining factor was overall layout design.
According to at least one of the three judges I failed inspection in every area.
Clicking on the link not only brings you to the judges comments, but it also lets you view the competition if you haven't already done so. I'd love your honest comparisons. It woud be interesting to hear the thoughts of people who read me from day to day because they, for some God forsaken reason, actually want to.:)
Still, after looking over the criteria for judging more closely, I realized I was sadly amiss in three major areas.
1. Llamas-No, I'm not kidding. Apparently without llamas, you ain't nothing.
2. Kissing Up- I admit it. I linked to the judges and I visited their sites, but I didn't pay homage to them in any of my posts this week. At the risk of making, "the dog ate my homework" like excuses, I could say I was distracted, which is the truth considering I had major car issues and the NJ ASK back to back. But if the real truth has to be told, I'm just not that kind of blogger. If I'm going to best of anything I'm going to be it cause I just am, not because I kissed ass to get there. That would make me no better than well, 98% of Hollywood.
3. It's Like, A Prayer- After reviewing the sites involved I realized that many of them had one common denominator, religion. While many people have mistakenly stumbled upon this site assuming it might be about religion given the title, they quickly realized it's not. In fact, it's not really about any one thing. This makes some people mad. This, in turn, makes me laugh.
So there you have it, should I still, somehow emerge the winner after this thing is all over, I would go back into the ring to defend my title against two new, worthy opponents, just like in Star Search's semi-finals. But if I don't make it, it's ok. I don't think Justin Timberlake wowed McMahon back then either and just look at how that turned out.
Update- I didn't win. As it turns out, none of the judges liked me. Who knew? Oh well, I guess I'll just take my ball and go home.:)
Post update to the update- Wil Wheaton. Boy was that post lost on you people. And here I thought all this time you were right there with me on the sarcasm...
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