Mark Latham at VoterMedia.org has informed this page that I have been entered in the Vancouver Voters' Guide Blogging Contest. Mr. Latham says that the purpose of the contest is to stimulate 2008 Vancouver election coverage among bloggers by offering financial incentives. Believe it or not, but this page was granted a late entry, apparently as the result of popular demand, and currently sits 12th among 12 blogs listed.
You know those murder mysteries where Agatha Christie puts together different types of people, one of them is the murderer, but they all have a good alibi? That's what being in this kind of contest is like for this page, and to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if I go down in the first couple of chapters. There are people who deserve to be read and discussed, like David Eby, there are major professional players like Bill Tielmann, Sean Holman, and there are bloggers who do a lot better job of putting themselves out there, like Samantha Orwell and her Vancouver Manifesto. This page has never considered himself as part of a blogging 'community', but there's a nice feeling just being mentioned in the same breath as this group.
Of course, there are also self-deluded sack-of-shit B.C. Lieberal Apologists like Walter Schultz who obviously need to take a little break. If you do check out the contest, I would appreciate your support, but bear in mind that doing this for free and under a pseudonym gives this page certain freedoms not readily enjoyed elsewhere, like the freedom to call Walter Schultz a sack-of-shit B.C. Lieberal Apologist. It's more important to me that Latham's money stays out of the hands of a right-wing propagandist shill than it is that it goes into my hands.
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