Diet, Cooking, and Exercise: Aussiejourno's Weekly Blog Awards

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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Results of the Judging-Aussiejourno’s Weekly Blog Awards

As the first guest judge, and the first judge from the Northern Hemisphere, I completed my judging duties yesterday and am posting the results here. When David McMahon invited me to judge, he said that his criteria were readability, photographs and/or image content, and the x-factor which could be a great headline, witty remark or something else that caught his eye and tickled his brain. I added consistency of theme, relevance, title catchiness, accuracy, and the use of keywords.

It wasn’t easy to visit and rate 53 blogs, especially with so many good ones. In typical teacher fashion, I created a spreadsheet with my criteria across the top and the blog links down the left-hand column and entered my subjective rating from one to ten under each of the criteria for each of the blogs, totaled the numbers, and sorted from highest to lowest. Thus, I gave the appearance of objectivity to a purely subjective endeavor. I had a few ties and had to revisit those blogs in order to break the tie.

I gave higher scores to blogs with current content (posts in the last week) and, after making allowances for blogspeak, I did consider grammar and spelling. When I am visiting blogs, I frequently browse the tags, or labels that the authors have given their own posts in order to quickly see what they are about. So, I gave more credit to blogs with effective tags.

This was an impossible yet rewarding experience for me. It’s impossible to rank the personal thoughts and experiences of others, but taking a stab at it exposed me to the various ways other bloggers choose to present themselves to world and what they value and find interesting in their own lives. I had the feeling when I was doing it and that I was being slightly voyeuristic, and was sitting squarely in the eye of this postmodern phenomenon, the blogosphere.

Here are my rankings.

Honorable Mention

http://www.no-fing-way.blogspot.com/
http://rodentia.blogspot.com/
http://www.ubertramp.com/blogger.htm

Here is my dietary recap from yesterday.

Daily Dietary Recap-4/27/2007
Calories	Protein	Carbohydrates	Sodium	Fat	% Calories from Fat
1333	48.85 g	220.58 g	968 mg	20.27 g	13.69%

Results of the Judging-Aussiejourno’s Weekly Blog Awards

Here are my rankings.

Honorable Mention

http://www.no-fing-way.blogspot.com/
http://rodentia.blogspot.com/
http://www.ubertramp.com/blogger.htm

Here is my dietary recap from yesterday.

Daily Dietary Recap-4/27/2007
Calories	Protein	Carbohydrates	Sodium	Fat	% Calories from Fat
1333	48.85 g	220.58 g	968 mg	20.27 g	13.69%

Thursday, April 26, 2007

I’ll be the Judge of That

Melbourne-based journalist and internationally-published photographer David McMahon, has named yours truly, ProfBush, the first guest judge for his weekly Aussiejourno's Weekly Blog Awards. The stated purpose of these awards is to, “encourage bloggers from all ‘round the world and…give new bloggers the chance to get their work noticed in an increasingly popular forum, alongside the world's most-visited blogs”. Diet, Cooking, and Exercise has been moving up the ranks of this award and when McMahon asked me to become the first guest judge, I said, “You know what they say, David, about fools rushing in where angels fear to tread. I also feel that I am not qualified, but I have a rule in my life that has served me well. If I am asked to do something that involves, or would require growth and stretching, and I feel fear, I give up the right to say no. So, yes I will do it”.

McMahon, the bestselling author of “Vegemite Vindaloo”, his first novel, said that this is also the first time the award has been judged from the Northern Hemisphere. Submissions close for this week at 12 noon UCT. If you have sites you would like to submit for consideration, please leave the link in a comment to this post.

Here is my recap for yesterday.