Chris Muir’s “Day by Day” and Cox & Forkum are in a quite friendly competition to see who gets more votes in
The 2005 Weblog Award for Best Humor/Comics Blog.
What’s great is the way they are so nice about it. Cox and Forkum did this cartoon on December 9th. Then Chris Muir gets back at them on December 10th and again on the 11th.
Monitor Duty isn’t in the competition, unfortunately. I’m not even sure what category we would fit in, though I suppose “Culture and Gossip” may apply.
Frankly, I am not sure that the awards’ voting is on the up and up. Muir, Cox and Forkum are pulling in third and fourth place in the 3000s. OK, understandable, they aren’t as “big” as Dilbert’s blog, though I wish them luck on at least pulling closer to Dilbert. Yes, that Dilbert. Dilbert is in second place with twice their numbers, in the mid-6000s as I write this. Makes sense, since it’s the blog of Scott Adams, even if he spends it mostly being not funny and talking about gift ideas for his fiancee. (Hey, is it the same gal as the one who played the minbari when he was on Babylon 5? For crying out loud, aren’t they married yet?) I’m just saying, the comic “Dilbert” is funny but the blog isn’t necessarily the one that should be winning of its own account.
Who’s in the lead? Someone called Jesus’ General (who appears a lot more hateful than funny) is way ahead of Dilbert. Hey, it’s possible, maybe this Jesus’ General is just the biggest thing since sliced bread to the people at MoveOn.org and I’ve just never heard of it because I don’t hang out there. Sure, possibly. Actually, it’s just that he’s doing the best job of encouraging readers to vote daily, which is acceptable under the rules.
So the winner won’t be the best one, of course, but as someone who competed in a similar “just hustle out the vote” contest I know that this is pretty much how Internet voting goes. At least, until someone comes up with a real purple finger system for voting online. (By the way, what’s with Iraq coming up with such a great election-guarding system? I remember discussing that at the time of their first post-dictator election. A buddy of mine on Dixonverse said it was because here in America we have better election security so we don’t need to ink fingers. Let me say this: If we had to ink fingers in America, Wisconsin would be a red state.)
Now…how can Monitor Duty get nominated for this completely bogus contest with its questionable honors? Sign us up for 2006!
One response to “Day by Day up for 2005 Weblog Awards!”
Considering how I was your second- or third- biggest /best lobbyist for that “Visions” contest with “Metro Med”… I actually enjoy the slightly unfair thing about the daily voting. I am also aware that internet voting is really the least secure forum to insure one-vote-one-voter fairness, because the only mechanisms commonly available to regulate the process are installing cookies on individual systems or monitoring IP numbers and ISP data.
I recall that in that contest oh-so-long ago that there was a crackdown mid-cycle which eliminated percieved multiple votes based on arbitrary judgements regarding similar ISPs or IPs or something of that nature.
Frankly I think voting in this nation would be a lot more secure simply if we used photo identification cards. Of course, I have heard that some say that that practice is racist. Who would say such a thing? I’d find the purple finger thing annoying but I love pulling out my card!