Link Competition winners…
August 21, 2007 | General
I decided to go through the competition entries carefully, and read a number of posts from each site before announcing the winners, hence the delay - but finally I have reached a decision.
Finalists
Originally there were to be 3 finalists, but so many good sites were submitted that I’ve picked the ones that interest me most and listed them below. All these sites will be placed in the blog roll on my site when it finally gets completed, and have also added them all to my feed reader.
- Blog-Op - I’ve actually been reading Blog-Op for a while. I won one of Chris’s competitions and decided to add him onto my blog roll anyway. So Chris is through by default
- thepinkc - I really like the design of the pink c (is that meant to be the pc, made girly?), and the content is pretty good too. The most recent post, Geek Girl: Google to School, is all about Google applications and how they are slowly replacing desktop applications, and I have to agree. I have been moving to Google over the last couple of years too. I use many of the apps, and will most likely do a write up on what and why later on.
- Net Writing - a site about writing for the web. I like that Tejvan (aka Richard?) recently wrote a critical post examining what works and what doesn’t work on his site. Looking at your own work objectively is a hard thing to do, and I agree with his 10 points - will be good to see if he implements them all.
- JazJaz features lots of snippets of craziness, and fun things that I enjoy. Many are geeky, but all are good, the most recent is particularly interesting to me… it’s the preview for the new series of Heroes - I can’t wait!
- Pro Blog Design covers the design of blogs. Michael, the author, seems to have set the site up as a platform for conversation, giving his opinion and then asking for the thoughts of others. I don’t always agree with what he writes but I do like to read the conversations that ensue.
- Connor Wilson is a talented young web designer, who is currently running a series of posts about how to better your blog in a week.
- Gnorb.net is an eclectic mix of Gnorbs musings and observations on life.
- Josh Buckley is another young entrepreneur (why do I feel so old?) from the UK and this is his blog. Funnily enough he actually posted a rather amusing video that I first saw today - and the rest of the site is pretty interesting too.
- Blogtrepreneur is a site I have been reading for a little while now, Adnan even interviewed me recently, but please don’t think that either of these things influenced anything…
The Winner…
This was hard to choose but in the end I went for the site that entertained me the most. This is possibly an unexpected choice, since most of the sites submitted were blogging related, but I like to have fun and the winner had the largest percentage of posts that entertained me. So well done JazJaz - thanks for entering - and look forward to your review some time in the future
It was very interesting reading ALL the sites submitted and I am really pleased that so many people had the desire to write about my little site. Thank you.
Gun Wing
Seths Puzzle Boxes
ExGen
Rocket Boards
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August 21, 2007
Thanks a lot for choosing my site as one of the winners! I’m glad you liked it.
As for “I don’t always agree with what he writes…” - Hehe - Glad to hear it! It would be no fun if everyone agreed.
Congrats to all the other winners as well, especially JazJaz.
August 21, 2007
Thanks Ben for including my site and taking the time to read through all the different blogs featured here.
Now, I have an added motivation to work on those 10 things I said I should do….
August 22, 2007
Wow, I can’t believe that JazJaz won. I sorta knew that our interests matched a bit, but I never expected to be the top prize winner.
I guess keeping your fingers crossed does help.
Thanks Michael, and congratulations for being a winner too.
Thank you Ben for choosing JazJaz to be the winner. It’s only fair that I do a review of your blog, soon.
August 22, 2007
Awesome dude! Thats for choosing me as a winner! I honestly didn’t think i had a chance
Glad you liked that video.
Congratulations to JazJaz, and it should be interesting to see the review.
August 22, 2007
Cheers Ben
What do you mean default - talk about damned with faint praise….
Some more new blogs for me to peruse then, excellent.
August 22, 2007
Danny - All of the posts on your site were things that were enjoyed by the geek in me - I couldn’t resist.
Chris - I would have added you if you hadn’t entered, it was nice that you did enter as well though
… and yeah - there’s some good sites in there. Worth a read I think.
Tejvan - I thought it only fair tat I spend a bit of time reading the sites properly before making my decision. I didn’t want anyone to be short changed.
Everyone else - thanks for entering, and keep writing the good content. I’m a reader now so you may see some linkage coming your way in the future.
August 22, 2007
Wooo! Finalist! Seriously an honor. Honestly, I didn’t think I’d even make it that far.
Now… I guess I’m supposed to say thanks? Cheers? Hurray? Not sure, but Hurray sounds best, so HURRAY! (And Thanks and Cheers, too.)
August 23, 2007
Haha, awesome, took a couple days to actually realize I made it this far :\
Thanks! (And Hurray :P)
August 23, 2007
Nice stuff, I’m glad to see so many people entered and also I discovered a few cool blogs in the meantime.
August 23, 2007
Man, I’m not gonna be able to read all of these from work…
August 24, 2007
This is awesome ! Thanks for the list i think it will be a long time reading them:)
August 26, 2007
Well done Danny, JazJaz is a great site… I know i just got caught up there for quite a while and will be back again when i have more time.
Carly,
November 14, 2007
Congratulations and thank you very much for this list, hope to see some more in the future from you.
Mark
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