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Saturday, May 12, 2007

thanks for inviting me

First of all, thank you Mr. Bagel, I'm proud to join.

I have a lot to say about how JIB Awards is progressing, but most is/was going on in private email discussions.

I hadn't expected to get into the finals, so I feel good about it.

I've gotten my votes without sending letters to all the email lists and everyone in my addressbook. I just wanted to see how ordinary people see my blogs. Even though Arutz 7 sometimes posts my articles on their opinion page, I don't get paid in any way, and I'm not one of the blogs they're promoting in the awards.

Yes, it seems like some blogs are getting mega publicity. Not only aren't all the voters bloggers, but not all the voters even read blogs on a regular basis.

You don't have to be a CPA's daughter (which I am) to see that it distorts the numbers. But since we can't change the rules mid-ride, let's just hope that some of those "doing a friend a favor" will get hooked and start reading blogs and even blogging.

Shavua Tov!

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