2005 Australian Blog Awards – Vote

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1. why wasn’t http://www.motherdigital.info included?

   it is south australian and recieves over 100,000 hits a month

2. Hey, why wasn’t Slushpile – http://nerdling.net/slushpile – included in the ‘overseas Australian blog’ category? I did nominate it…

3. Not that we have any hope of winning, but… we were nominated for best ACT blog and we’re not on the list? Also we’re having a technical problem with the email link to register to vote. Basically my mail program can’t send the email. Could keks please send me the voting links manually?

4. just to be a pedant. Back Pages was nominated for Best Aussie Political Blog (Phil I think?)

5. More Blog Awards
   Blog awards. Wonderful acknowledgement of your fellow bloggers writing talent. Yeh, bullshit! Blogging by definition does not require, nor as…

6. Just noticed I am on this thing, FYI mate DREADNOUGHT is capitalised. Thanks.

7. Clearly I’ve missed a few things while collating the nominations… Thankfully, nobody has sent in any votes, so I can make the required changes a all will be JUST FINE… sorry 🙁

8. thanks for doing all this!
   Next year maybe you can fit in ‘best title for a weblog’
   Maybe I’ll even have a blog by then..
   cheer
   seepi

9. Further to loadedog’s comment, I’m also having trouble registering, as my email was returned unsent. Yes, I took out the REMOVE bit. I’m not as blonde as I look!

10. Um, I was on the list as well under personal blogs nominated by Darp, but the wrong address was posted, the correct one is: http://www.fulmination.com/home.html

    I don’t stack up against the others in this category and have no hope of winning, but it was nice to be nominated.

    I guess I’m just whoring for hits really. 🙂

11. adamo – nobody nominated it… you’d think with 100,000 hits SOMEONE might have nominated you. 🙁
    dreadnought – no shouting please… 🙂

    Anyone having trouble emailing me a request… there shouldn’t be any issues… I’ve got over 100 requests already, HOWEVER, I’d be happy to email you on the address you’ve included with your comment(s).

    Everyone else… I’ve corrected my mistakes. Now it’s just a matter of fixing some minor issues with the voting software… THEN, we can start voting. Soon… I promise.

12. I d-d-don’t care who’s got the n-n-numbers brother, as long as I g-g-get to c-c-count the v-v-v-votes. – Stammering Senator Patrick Kennelly, when told before an ALP Caucus meeting that [*****.com] had the numbers
    (smile)

13. Umm, my blog was nominated twice for best political blog, but doesn’t seemto be on the list.

14. Can you remove one of my listings (give me spirit fingers dammit!!) under the Best Overseas Blog as I’m in there twice. Thanks.

15. I sent an email 2 days ago but haven’t recieved a reply yet. Did you get it or did something go wrong?

16. Thanks for the corrections

17. The URL on mine (The Supermercado Project) under the Victorian category is dodgy. It’s got both – the new main address is Supermercado.tv

    Plug

18. The url for my blog is wrong. It is http://www.falimakoblog.blogspot.com and the name of it is The falimako Blog. I am in the South Australian blog area.

19. Man… I’ve REALLY stuffed this up…

20. While there might be a few boo boos, don’t kick yourself too hard 🙂 You’re only human! Or ARE you?! Doo dooo doo dooo doo dooo doo dooo!

    Thank you for organising this, by the way. The fact that people are bothering to offer constructive criticism is a sign that this thing is appreciated by the blogging community so don’t take it as an insult xxx

21. 2005 Asutralian Blog Awards
    2005 AUSTRALIAN BLOG AWARDS – For an indication of how strong the Australian blogosphere is check out the range of nominations here. Oh, and VOTE!

22. Nah, you haven’t stuff up Vlado, quite the opposite. I discovered some great blogs through the awards last year, and this year is a feast – thanks for being such a generous host.

23. Mr vlado, it would be astonishing if no errors were made. In the circumstances, they’re unavoidable.

    Congratulations on the job you’re doing. I think it’s marvellous.

24. Okay… it’s 2:39AM and debugging this voting software is giving me the sh!ts… I’m calling it a night… I’ll have to continue this tomorrow. Sorry about the delays. 🙁

    And thanks for the kind words…

25. Ah, STREWTH! is ‘shouting’ Vlado or is that fine because you agree with his politics?

    The title of my blog is DREADNOUGHT, please list it correctly.

26. dreadnought… it will be changed when I fix the other stuff i’ve buggered up.

    in regards to his and your politics. i’ve hardly had time to sleep let alone read all the blogs nominated. from memory, i had not seen either of the blogs before they were nominated, and all i did when i visited the sites was to see if they existed, and even that process was bypassed in some cases (note falimako’s comments above).

    IF i had an opinion of your, or any other blog, i wouldn’t be expressing it here during the nomination or voting phases of the awards… i’d hate to bias anyones vote… as if anyone would care what i had to say anyway… but it’s hardly the role of an election official/commision to make comments about candidates… is it.

    so… dreadnought… and everyone else waiting for me to fix one of my MANY mistakes, or simply waiting for the promised email with the links so they may vote… thank you for your patience so far… just a little longer.

27. Go Vlado!!!

    Your efforts are mightily appreciated.

28. It’s alright. We know you’re working as hard as you can. Keep up the good work.

29. I’m told the the US Navy has a dictum for pilots who get lost

    Climb, Conserve (fuel), Confess

    A hell of a lot of the people who want to vote don’t read this site. If it’s at all possible you might want to just let them know there’s a hold up and you’ll be back to them as soon as possible.

    Just a suggestion.

    Good Luck.

30. Seeing as I’ve an Oz tech blog, you might want to consult it when it comes to vote-counting using optional preferential systems.

    OK, here it is, an article that gives a link to the source code used in the ACT’s election.

    Open source, of course. It’s the only way to go. Note that eVACS is for the Hare-Clarke variant, rather more complex than most. See the Wired article on it.

    The Open Votimg Consortium might be able to help, but a quick squizz I had at it didn’t show up anything immediately useful.

    This data might help – but may instead show that hand-counting is the way to go for you, coding the solution is a bit more complex and difficult than it may appear at first. Your call.

    Oh yes, my blog was nominated twice in the Tech Blog category, and isn’t on the list.

31. Post Scriptum: AEBrain the Blog’s description is Intermittent postings from Canberra, Australia on Software Development, Space, Politics, and Interesting URLs.
    And of course, Brains….
    So although it’s a tech blog, if you want pure-tech, you’ll be disappointed. There’s too much politics, whimsy and entertainment. Philosophy. AI. A Cthulhu Christmas. You get the idea.
    Though I led the software development team for the spaceflight avionics of FedSat, so it’s pretty strong on the Software and Space tech.

32. It’s a good job you’re doing there….hopefully everything ok soon…then I can get down to votes…

    One day, maybe even i might get nominated….or someone might read my blog. Link whoring? Maybe. Wishful thinking? More likely

33. I tried to send keks and email to register and it failed. It was rejected. Please email me with what to do somebody.

    See below for details
    Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
    I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following
    addresses.
    This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.

    <2005Bernies@kekocREMOVE.com>:
    Sorry, I couldn’t find any host named kekocREMOVE.com. (#5.1.2)

34. krankiboy remove the word REMOVE from the email address ….

35. Who’s Bernie anyway? Berners-Lee?

36. Yes… Tim Berners-Lee… inventor of the World Wide Web. Someone suggested we call the awards “The Bernies” last year… as Tim Berners-Lee is to the web, and thus blogging, what John Logie Baird is to TV… and we all know and love “The Logies” 🙂

    Personally, I’m of the opinion that officially it’s the “Australian Blog Awards” but it can be affectionately refered to as “The Bernies”… much like “The Academy Awards” are often refered to as “The Oscars”, but it’s “officially” known as “The Academy Awards”.

37. Here in sunny Newport, the “Australian Blog Awards” are known as “The Vlados”.

    Vlado: the man who doesn’t sleep.

38. I’ve sent two requests for voting registration and I’ve not received the form (I did take the REMOVE out of the addy).

39. Hey wow, thanks for the nomination!

40. Okay… ALMOST there… just some final testing and checking of links before the emails go out… expect it tomorrow night.

41. I challenge the other Victorian entrants to a live debate on Channel 9. Hosted by Ray Martin with the worm turning.

42. Could you send me the registration thingie because the link above doesn’t seem to be working (at least not on my PC).

    Flattered to have been nominated!

43. Still haven’t received my registration details. Is everything OK?

44. can you please email me the registration thingamajigy too please?

    i also cannot get the link to work.

45. My links not received yet, 14 January

46. Yep me too.

    Pleaseee emaileee.

47. … and I haven’t got mine yet.

48. Thanks, Vlado. All good now.

49. I was reading in PC Authority the other day that the largest personal site in Australia at the moment is livingroom.org.au which hosts some great blogs. It gets 16% of the traffic of all personal sites in Australia (Tim Blair gets something like 9%).

    Wondering why none of the livingroom blogs got nominated? Maybe their readers are all overseas or something.

50. fantastic job dude. i for one appreciate the effort you’ve gone to. did my vote, and got a few new blogs to check out.
    you should have a category for hoster of the best awards site 😉

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