Blog Awards Challenge

First, here's the link to Blog Awards Challenge 2.

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Thank you to all those who submitted their entries for the "1st Blog Awards Challenge: I Blog Therefore I Am".

The judges have finally chosen the 10 best entries. They rated each entry according to quality/content, writing style, point of view/insight/logic, and grammar skills.

The 10 finalists will now compete for blogger votes, which will count for 20% of the final score. Final tally of scores and results will be posted on May 11th. Three major winners and 2 merit winners will be selected from the 10 finalists. [read more]

If you want to vote, kindly read the rules below:

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* To promote peer-to-peer recognition and respect only bona fide bloggers can vote for the competition. Anonymous voters without a valid blog will not be added to the tally of votes.

* Voters must be blogging for at least three (3) months with a minimum of thirty entries in his blog prior to his voting in the competition. This will eliminate phantom voters and reduce incidence of cheating.

* One vote is tallied as 100 points. A voter is allowed to pick three best entries among the finalists.

* The votes are added up and the winner is declared with a Reader’s Choice Award citation.

* The total number of votes (converted into weights) are added to the other weight points as set in the Winner Selection Criteria.
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Are you qualified to vote? Then LEAVE A COMMENT here with your three (3) best entry picks. We will manually check your blog for qualification requirements before counting your votes.

Here are the 10 Best Entries and their links (in no particular order):

I Am Therefore I Blog by Not So Victor
Likewise, I urge Ms. Fernandez to step down from her high horse, turn off her bigotry, and try to find some real live bloggers to talk to. Instead of judging away in her column. continue reading >>>

The answer to life, the universe, and everything... is blogging by Electronic Pulp
This morning, I finished half of a new feature story that I was planning on posting tonight. It was supposed to be about the characteristics of Jumpers (who are special human beings capable of doing special (what else?) things like jumping through space and landing anywhere in the world) compared to those of Bloggers. continue reading >>>

Reasons Why I Love Drowning into Blogging by Hulag
Off the net proved bootless ideas to my personal campaign against procrastination, thus I started to check life solutions in the Cyber Ocean and luckily discovered the blogosphere. I got intrigued by its collection of elastic self expressions and come-see-this-way opinions fighting for attention over a public space. continue reading >>>

i blog by mikelcleus
when state-sponsored repression--political, personal or otherwise--reaches unprecedented levels, the world wide web has become an avenue, a sort of last resort, to voice out, problematize, and process pesonal narratives, which, in turn, is part of a bigger meta-narrative of cultures. free blog hosting, like that of google's blogger, contributes to the mainstreaming of the politization of a greater mass of people. continue reading >>>

Blog: a nonsense business? by 2fourteen
My summer sunburn is agonizing! It’s stinging me as I write this blog entry. After spending two seconds of your lifetime reading the two sentences above, you ask yourself: WHO CARES? If you worship me as your idol or if you have a head-over-heels crush on me, I would understand if reading it excites you. continue reading >>>

I Blog Therefore I Am by Caustic Thoughts
Despite certain circumstances showing otherwise, the constitution says this is a free country where freedom of expression is allowed. I have a right to discuss, to debate and to have a say about the things that matter to me and that affect me. Blogging is as legitimate as gathering in the streets to bang on the palace gates and clamor for change. continue reading >>>

I Blog, You Blog. We All Blog. Why? by My Frakkin Blog
Why do we blog? Why do I blog? Why do YOU blog? It has been alluded that we only blog because we are lonely and out of touch with the real world and that we are slackers. Those are some pretty demeaning words...don’t you think? continue reading >>>

Blogging and Loving It by Pinoy Lotto Winner
Look around first and read the mess that's in here. Much like the mess in my room, right? This is my squatting place in cyberspace. The domain that replaced my moleskine journal. The reason why I'm sometimes not in the mood to go out. continue reading >>>

aNg LuWasA't hULo.. by cherrymae06
Aaminin ko. Nabuo ang kauna-unahan kong blog [noong 2006] dahil sa tinataglay kong kalungkutan nung mga panahong yun. Bagaman may pamilya at mga kaibigan naman akong malalapitan, hindi ko maipahayag ang tunay kong saloobin sa mga tao sa paligid ko dahil sa pangambang walang makikinig sa akin, sa takot na walang makakaunawa sa aking mga daing. continue reading >>>

I, Blogger: I Blog Therefore I Am by cheapsentibox
I keep a very similar list. That makes me a normal out-in-the-real-world BLOGGER. Planet earth or blogosphere – I am my own person. I choose to exist in two realms just because I can. I choose not to dwell on any one side of the world just because I can. And yes, it so happened that I also choose to explore and make the most of what my list of life has to offer – blogging included – just because I friggin’ can. continue reading >>>

To read all the entries, visit the first challenge page and check out the links provided in the comment section.

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Cast your votes now by leaving a comment here (please don't use the chatbox)! Voting ends May 10th 2008.

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Don't miss the Blog Awards Challenge 2: Blogging for Global Warming. Join the challenge and be recognized! Proceed here.