Vote for my blog, folks!

For more than a week, the Newfoundland and Labrador Blogroll has been running a competition called the Bloggers' Choice. It's a runoff between 24 different sites that blogroll owner Stephen Eli Harris has chosen each week to highlight, and I'm one of them.

The competition has been fun, and has largely come down to a contest between my blog and Bitstop, Karen Chappell's majestic collection of photography. Barry Parsons's Rock Recipes was in the lead in the early days, and although he's well back now in 3rd place, I still feel he could have won it, thanks to a Facebook page membership of more than 3,800.

I'm currently in the lead - thanks to a lot of support I've garnered through social media. I hope to write more on that sometime soon. 

A purpose of this contest is to draw attention to the blogs of Newfoundland and Labrador. You can always find the blogroll on the right-hand side of my page; the little asterisk means a particular blog has something fresh to read. (The ones at the top are the most recently updated.)

As well, take some time to check out the blogs that are among the 24. I'm sure you'll be astounded by the variety.

Finally, thanks to Stephen Eli Harris for coming up with the idea - ideas, really, for the blogroll itself, the blog of the week, and now this competition. You can hear an interview he did with Angela Antle of WAM, aka the Weekend Arts Magazine, right here. Check out his blog, Understanding Eli, too.

Comments

[Barry C. Parsons]

Congrats on your win John, it is well deserved. I'm looking forward to reading about your campaign strategy to glean tips for next time. ;) I wish I'd had more time to commit to the campaign myself this time but I'm snowed under with schoolwork until Spring. I'll need a caffeine drip to get through Labour Law and Microeconomics!

Congrats to Karen too, for such a great showing and to all the bloggers who were nominated as well as Eli for promoting the idea so well.

All the best, Barry.

[John Gushue]

Thanks for the kind words, Barry - the official count is just out on the Blogroll page (http://nlblogroll.blogspot.com/2010/01/and-winner-is.html)

I hope to write something this week on the campaign. Will keep you posted!