Blarch Badness: VOTE in West Seattle, Round One
Capitol Hill (through Tuesday)
Ballard (through Wednesday)
U District (through Thursday)
An exciting opening to the Badness so far, no?
No?
Well, I’m happy. Only minor hiccups so far. I was afraid that I was going to misconfigure a poll and the Montlake Bridge would have been stuck up all day long. Because I tend to break things.
But hey, let’s move into what you came for — the opening round of the West Seattle Regional. Remember, these are just names. We didn’t call the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce and ask them to build us a $300M arena with free WiMax. That’s the Sonics’ job.
Remember, look at their blogs, and vote with your gut. Or your random number generator. Same thing.
Voting closes Monday night. Yes, that means this is a one week poll, not a one day poll. Plenty of time for everyone to round up their posses.
WEST SEATTLE REGIONAL
Opening Round
February 6
#1 Chris Pirillo vs #8 Glenn Fleishman
Here we have a battle between techies — Chris Pirillo, onetime star of TechTV and creator of the mighty ubertechie convention Gnomedex, and Glenn Fleishman, tech writer for the Times, KUOW, and Wi-Fi Network News. And this is the only matchup so far between people with their own Wikipedia entries. Can you feel the geek tonight?
#2 Seattlest vs #7 Anita Rowland
Seattlest is just like us; it’s just that they’re paid and have Dan Savage fawning over them, while we do this for free and get labelled Enemies of the Slog. (Are we bitter?) Against them is one of the longest-running, most respected bloggers in Seattle (I call her the Den Mother Of Seattle Webloggers, personally) that just happens to be battling cancer. We all love Anita and hope she gets better soon.
#4 Postman on Politics vs #5 KEXP Blog
And here we have the only Seattle Times blog in the competition. That’s P-I 3 blogs, Times 1. And while Dave Postman has put himself at the fore of political bloggers in this state (in my opinion, ahead of the two political blogs seeded ahead of him), he’s up against the KEXP Blog, loaded with all your favorite KEXP DJs. KEXP’s main demographic is 18-35. Our demographic is 18-35. Hmm.
#3 Seattle Daily Photo vs #6 Michael Hanscom
And finally, a battle of photographers — Kim’s daily shots of Seattle vs. the most famous camera store employee to ever be fired by Microsoft.
Tomorrow, Gays! Moms! Politics! Foodies! Sports! Buzz! Let’s head for Capitol Hill!
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fun fact: today’s matchups feature two metroblogging alumni — chris pirillo and michael hanscom.
So many things to vote on. Please pardon yet another.
Our Viaduct survey closes today. Dropping a note on a few blogs today to make sure as many people as possible get a chance to weigh in.
btw, thanks for mentioning the survey last week.
Wow, “they’re paid” makes it sound like we collect a salary, have a fact-checking department, get interns to molest, and charge by the syllable instead of sneaking off to write up posts during our full-time jobs wherein we guzzle the corporate man-butter!
/tom
I voted for Glenn just because I can’t stand that annoying little twerp… I mean, me. :)