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Actually it looks like Lifehacker has a commanding lead. :p
I'm sorry, but I believe in vote-trading to defeat bad candidates in election: that is, if you really can't stand one candidate, vote for the the most popular of the non-objectionable candidates, that is, the one with the best chance to defeat the candidate you don't like.
In this case, the best candidate to defeat Perez is Lifehacker, so they get my vote.
Sorry guys, but I just can't let Perez win.
But PH is ahead of BB :(.
and who really cares about patting each other's backs? this ain't the school yard any more, and god forbid bb is starting to call itself an "award winning blog" like some underexposed marketing executive with a degree in media studies would have you do it. tsssss...
it's pretty much gawker media, and deservedly so.
tho tbh I'd go with techcrunch, but it's a bit niche, but mike arrington is the man of the match for actually and thinking about tech. otoh, it's almost as daft as podcast awards.
If PH wins then truly the 00's will go down as the decade that will live in infamy.
Vote cast, vote-rigging robots being constructed...
No /. ?
Adweek? But I use AdBlock to avoid ads. Am I bad?
meh, gave up on them after taco declared to ipod doa, and the katz/junis fiasco. no reddit is surprising. otoh, this is adweek, so they're biased in favour of (social) web1.0 blogging sites where a limited set of gatekeepers are the go-to's for getting client content up on the front page.
Why is Google an option for site of the decade? Maybe the '00s, but not this decade.
boondocker- which year are you in? because round here it's still '09 (one of the '00s)
>But I use AdBlock to avoid ads. Am I bad?
no, the web isn't television. some tv shows, I'd be happier just watching the adverts, but run anti-adblock and just show the ads on pages , and that's not so great an experience.
it's way better to get content placed in the blog, either by paying for it, which is perhaps questionable , or just plain old social engineering, either way, the roi is going to be way better than having your gif on the side of site, and, adblock isn't going to help with that.
Done, FBd and Twittered.
Oh, and voted.
@Baldhead
[Simpsons security guard] Well, I'm an idiot. [/ssg]
Yeah, I have no real excuse for messing that up. I meant the '90s, but even that doesn't work, since it wasn't until after '98 or so that Google really started to effectively monopolize the search biz.
When I voted PH had 666 votes. Coincidence?
I don't get it... How can you rate "site of the decade" when 90%+ of those sites are from last decade?
This is like a book-of-the-year contest that lists Moby Dick and Tale of Two Cities as contestants.
No, a website is, hopefully a living thing, not a done deal like a book by a dead writer. If it did something good in some year, decade or eon then it is of that time slot.
Taken seriously, BB trying to gather votes not on its own merits but as a nuisance to some 'bad guy' is the epitome of what politics news and opinions have become in the '00s. But it was meant as a joke wasn't it? Wasn't it???
Furthermore, Time's Person of the Year for 2008 was Barack Obama, and he is from 1961!
Wow, this was a great tactic because it actually made me want to vote and I never do for these blog things. Good job, Boing Boing.