November 02, 2007
You Love Us! You Really Love Us!
Well, well, well, this is a nice Friday surprise. It turns out that we Llamas have made the final cut for the 2007 Weblogs Awards after all, skootching in as representatives of the TTLB Ecosystem, 501-1000 Category. (SOOPER SEKRET MESSAGE TO STEVE-O: How do you get the sidebar finalist banner thingy put up without trashing the entire site? I'm hopeless at the technical side of things here.)
Here's the list of the other finalists in our category, none of whom I know (you can link to them from the voting page):
The Poor Man Institute
Woman Honor Thyself
Smirking Chimp
Agonist
The Sideshow
Betsy's Page
The American Mind
All for Women
Coyote Blog
Early results have Betsy's Page out in front, but we Llamas are in the running for second. (If you'd care to drop by the voting page on our behalf - as often as possible - we'd appreciate it very much.)
On behalf of Steve-O, Gary, the LMC, Chai-Rista and everybody else we've given a set of keys and forgotten to take them back, thankee very kindly to all who conspired to get us into the running. I know that at this point I'm supposed to say something about how I really only blog for the pleasure of expressing myself and engaging in interesting conversation, but the truth of the matter is that I'm proud as Lucifer to get one of these things. Again, thankee very, very kindly. Yip! Yip! Yip!
Shameless Pandering Yips! from Gary:
As the campaign officially begins, I will be scouring through my collection of gratuitous 80's babe photos, perhaps even throwing an occasional bone to the ladies. Also, look out for the frequent obligatory "Where's Melissa Theuriau" posts!
Hey Gary, any truth to the rumor at the LA TImes that Hillary! has dumped her long time companionable scheduler for Melissa Theuriau? I think the world wants to know....
Posted by: Steve the LLamabutcher at November 2, 2007 10:23 AMAre you kidding? If she ever visited Washington, Billy Jeff would all over the poor thing.
Posted by: Gary at November 2, 2007 11:04 AMI have never even heard of any of the finalists in the Music Blog category, and - of course - the page with links to them had no links, just the list.
This is typical of the BS that the TTLB Ecosystem has become for all but political bloggers. NZ Bear kept changing the rules "to keep people from gaming the system" per Hugh Hewitt, who I bitched to about this issue a few months ago. All I know is this: 1] I never gamed the system, and 2] Back when I had 30-50 visitors per day I alternated between being an amphibian and a fish. Now with most days being over a hundred visitors, I'm stuck at a microorganism.
I've come inshes from deleting that damnable TTLB Ecosystem link from my blog's template, but I keep hoping - in vain I'm sure - that NZ Bear will go back to a system that is fair, instead of the current punitave system that counts only incoming links, and has nothing whatsoever to do with daily traffic.
NZ Bear sucks. There... I said it.
Posted by: Hucbald at November 2, 2007 12:11 PMHucbald---I think we stand guilty on that front (or at least I stand guilty). The LLamas were notorious TLLB gamers back in the wild west days of 2004, having gotten ourselves quite regularly into the low 80s.
Posted by: Steve the LLamabutcher at November 2, 2007 01:02 PMI'm happy that you are happy. I'm not sure it means anything anymore... I think we all know who will win without even looking at the results.
My advice, keep on keeping on. I read you every day. In that sense, you are a winner (as my intellectual prowess and discernment means a whole lot in my own private blogospere).
I hope I didn't mispell anything...
Should I have used a semi-colon?
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