Monday, March 16, 2009

Scenic Boys need your vote - Monday, 3rd week of voting

To learn about the recent dramatic developments in the course of voting action, read yesterday's post.

Having slept through the night, which means another 8 hours have passed, I woke up to 60 more votes recorded for amtr. Sunday ended then with amtr outdoing st3 by as much as 81 votes on the highest daily number of votes, growing to 25% share and moving up to the second place, only 40 votes behind the leading blog (st3). At this rate, it will take them only slightly over 4 more hours to become the new number one blog.

As a consequence of amtr's growth, all other blogs except the last one (gHtv, who only have 5%) lost some of their shares. The boys are down by the further 1%, i.e. to 19%, and remain at number four.

I wonder what the judges will think of bloggers who decided to take voting results in their own hands. Will they be perceived as possessing entrepreneurial spirit or cheating? Will what they are doing even affect the judges' decisions? Will we - the spectators - ever learn? I kind of hope Matthew, the Lonely Planet author, will drop a comment or two after voting is closed.





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