Three years ago — has it been that long? — Seven Days started asking readers to vote for their favorite Vermont blogs as part of our annual Daysies readers’ choice awards.

Last year, we split up the category to let people vote for Best Vermont Blog (political) and Best Vermont Blog (non-political).

Not surprisingly, there are many local bloggers who desperately want to win a Daysie, and will do whatever they can to encourage their readers, friends and fans to vote for them. I love reading these shameless plugs. Bill Simmon has an excellent summary of all the shilling.

It’s kind of late in the game, since the polls close tomorrow, but I also want to recommend taking a look at Vermont Tiger, Vermont Scrapwood, Vermont’s Burning, The Vermont Gardener and Clamzilla’s Fabulous Adventures in the Dark.

I haven’t updated it lately, but there are also a list of Vermont blogs linked the blurt blogroll — the Vermont Blog Directory. I know, it needs some love. It’s on my to-do list.   

Click here to vote. The polls close tomorrow at 5 p.m.

This article appears in Jun 25 – Jul 1, 2008.

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8 replies on “Best Blog Daysies — Who Wants to Win?”

  1. “Blogga, please.” -BSCathy, I gotta ask- why don’t you ever publish the actual Daysie vote totals? The only possible reason I can imagine is that they’re embarrassingly low. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, except maybe as far as your advertisers are concerned… maybe I just answered my own question… Now I’m just thinking out loud… I should probably shut-up, right?

  2. Haik, I don’t know why we don’t publish them. I’ve never been in on that discussion.I do know that we get a ton of ballots back, but not everybody votes in every category. And if 1000 people give 975 different answers to one question (which is pretty unlikely in this small state but you get my point) the winner won’t have an overwhelming number of votes. But they still won, and they still deserve to be recognized like everyone else.It occurs to me that whenever we win awards — like, from the Vermont Press Association, or the Association of Alternative Weeklies — we don’t get to see the judges tallies, or how many people voted against us, or even how many people entered the competition. I think it’s pretty common for people who give awards to maintain some level of secrecy about the process.That said, does anybody have any examples of “best of” awards that reveal the actual number of ballots cast and votes received in every category? Just curious.

  3. Cathy – I don’t know if we “desperately” want to win a Daysie, but it would be a nice flower in our sunhat. Now, if you called them the GAYsies, THEN we might consider being desparate.Hugs,Amber LeMayPS – Thanks, Bill, for the shout out!

  5. Because it makes it harder to stuff the ballot box. Makes it more time-consuming, anyway.And because we want the biggest local vote sample possible. We want lots of responses in all the categories, rather than a ton of responses in just a few categories submitted by passionate fans who may or may not live in Vermont.

  6. Tangentially related: I think ‘most honest and competent mechanic’ would be a good category.

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