December 14, 2010
3QD Politics Prize 2010 Semifinalists
Hello,
The voting round of our politics prize (details here) is over. A total of 493 votes were cast for the 44 nominees (click here for full list of nominees). Thanks to the nominators and the voters for participating.
Carla Goller has designed a "trophy" logo that our top twenty vote-getters may choose to display on their own blogs. So here they are, in descending order from the most voted-for:
Muhammad Cohen, Twenty reasons Barack Obama stinks
- Huffington Post, Haiti's Political and Economic Earthquake "Made in the USA"
- 3 Quarks Daily, The Trappers and the Trapped
- Sexy Beast, Spitzer, Stop Hiding From Your Call Girl Past
- Accidental Blogger, What was malt liquor?
- Farming Pathogens, The Alan Greenspan Strain
- 3 Quarks Daily, Who Will Be A Champion Of The Left We Can Believe In? As Bush-lite, Obama Ain't It
- 3 Quarks Daily, The Revolution Will Not Be PowerPointed
- True/Slant, Some Iran Questions Without Answers
- Ideas in Motion, Covering Mirrors *
- The South Asian Idea Weblog, 9/11: Socrates, Machiavelli, Christ and Gandhi
- Wisdom of the West, Politics
- 3 Quarks Daily, War and the American Republic
- NPR Check, Asymmetric Accomplices to Murder
- PH2.1, Getting to Agreement
- Zunguzungu, Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government”
- The Philosopher's Beard, Politics: Can't Someone Else Do It?
- The Heart of the Matter, It's Just a Leak
- Naked Capitalism, End This Fed
- Stephen Walt, Why America is going to regret the Cordoba House controversy
- Black Agenda Report, The Unraveling of the Empire of Finance Capital
* This post was inadvertently left out of the list of semifinalists, so I am adding it now. My apologies. It was considered for the finalists but did not make the cut. See comments below.
The editors of 3 Quarks Daily will now pick the top six entries from these, and after possibly adding up to three "wildcard" entries, will send that list of finalists very soon, possibly even later today, to Lewis Lapham. We will also post the list of finalists here then.
Good luck!
Abbas
Posted by S. Abbas Raza at 12:05 AM | Permalink
Comments
I wonder what contest you ran here, for I don't see the blogpost "Covering Mirrors."
Oh well, it's a celebrity contest, no-household-names need not apply; lesson learned!
BTW, I wonder in case you publish this, for how long it stays up.
Posted by: via fCh | Dec 15, 2010 12:46:04 PM
To the above post--from my memory the decision was made by how many votes were cast. So it is possible that a well-known writer would gather more votes based on higher readership.
Posted by: Michelle | Dec 15, 2010 5:36:39 PM
Michelle, the pre-selection was meant to get the first 20 blogposts by the number of the cast votes. "Covering Mirrors" had been among those.
But I got the message. For example, I look at the pre-selection list and read 3 Quarks Daily with 3 entries. Out of these 3 entries, one goes for final. Betting against the house is a suckers' game, isn't it?
Posted by: via fCh | Dec 15, 2010 10:07:02 PM
via fCh is correct and the mistake was mine. While I did include the Ideas In Motion post in the list that the editors read before deciding who the finalists would be, when I was writing this post, I was transferring names directly from the polling software and inadvertently skipped over that one. It should have been tied for 10th place in the list above with 19 votes. I am very sorry about my error and I should have been more careful. I will add the post to the list now.
It was considered and rejected for the list of finalists, so this is as far as it goes.
The other speculations by via fCh are nonsense. People make mistakes sometimes.
Posted by: Abbas Raza | Dec 16, 2010 3:31:44 AM
"The other speculations by via fCh are nonsense."
What gives you the right to call me speculation "nonsense," Mr. Raza? It's singular at most, for the only speculation in my statement could be: "Betting against the house is a suckers' game, isn't it?" In any case, when the qualifier comes from you, it doesn't stand. Am I the one who wronged the process?
Posted by: via fCh | Dec 16, 2010 9:00:06 AM
via fCh,
Try to be a good sport.
If that doesn't work, read this:
Alfie Kohn
I like the 3QD competitions, not because of the entries selected as finalists for prizes, but because we get to read some of the best blog posts from philosophy and literature to politics and science. I discover new blogs through the contests and new ideas that I otherwise would have overlooked.
Cheer up!
Posted by: Louise Gordon | Dec 16, 2010 2:18:36 PM
Louise, telling a fellow blogger how to be, while quoting Alfie Kohn, is not a good sport either.
If you were a blogger yourself, you might have understood that in the online economy of attention, being even briefly overlooked makes plenty of difference, regardless of winning or not. This site, being updated so frequently, penalized a rightful contestant in the eyes of so many.
Next time, try to come up with something of your own, or make sure Alfie Kohn applies to the situation at hand.
Posted by: Dini | Jan 3, 2011 5:51:31 PM
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