Archive for January, 2006

When in doubt, smack your head on the keyboard!

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

*****UPDATE*****  Well as you may have realized, it's not being able to vote at all, to being able to vote as much and as fast as the poll tool will cycle.  I have a support ticket into the technical people with the voting tool.  As soon as I hear something, ...

Testing….123 Testing 123

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Yes, I admit, after going out and having to purchase the application to conduct the voting polls, an expense we really did not want to factor into the awards, we are experiencing some growing pains. We are working on the settings to allow some IP's to vote every 24 ...

Voting to last until…

Monday, January 16th, 2006

We will accept voting until January 30, 2006, and until that time we will continue to fix any voting problems brought to out attention. We will announce the winners of the categories on January 31. Any questions? Powered By Qumana

Come on keep voting!

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Don't worry, you can vote more than once!  Just only once a day.  So ... let's get those votes going! And please don't forget to vist the nominated blogs and our gracious sponsors. Powered by Qumana

Ready … Set … Vote!

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

The time has come ... the day is here ... it's time to start the popular vote portion of this extravaganza.  The management apologizes, again, for the delay.  You know, you'd think it would be easy to find a good piece of polling software.  It isn't. So ... here you go ...

Code Talkers

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Well we have figured out the script issue.  When in doubt get out your wallet and buy something.  Now we have to enter each of the blogs, yes all 200 blogs, into a poll system by hand coding each entry as a link into the poll boxes and then we ...

Best Overall Blog Finalists

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Whew! The last category! After a late start and a bit of confusion, we finally have the finalists for the Best Overall Blog category. Sorry about the delay! The Muttering Muse http://www.themutteringmuse.com/ Michele Agnew: http://micheleagnew.com/ The Sarcastic Journalist http://shenuts.com/ Urban Semiotic http://www.urbansemiotic.com/ ZazzaFooky http://www.zazzafooky.com/index.php?nonewskin=1 The Sound of Muzik http://www.muzikdude.com/ Fighting Inertia http://fightinginertia.blogspot.com/ Paper Napkin http://papernapkin.typepad.com/ The Art of Getting By http://www.theartofgettingby.com/ Abstract Utopia http://www.blogsofrealplay.com/Members/Utopia/

Just when you thought it was safe…

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water, out comes the sharks! Well in this case, we are having some minor difficulties with the voting script, but I assure you, we will make sure every vote counts even those dead people in Chicago! I see our ...

Rules Are Rules!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

The BoB Awards last year turned into a popularity contest more than a blog winning on its merits.  We wanted to eliminate that this year and make the popularity of a blog be important but no the deciding factor.  We have devised a formula after many hours of time at ...

Because I Said So!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

We are about to the finish line!  We have some great mommy blogs and with over 300 nominees, it was the toughest category.  We had to eliminate blogs based on their popularity!  I think we have Overall blogs left and then we can start the voting.  That is if the ...