Twitter, Plurk, Awards and Chismisan Blues

Dear mouse,

One thing with the twitter and the plurk is you just do not know who are the followers and the following. I have my plurk account but I don’t use it. I have my twitter where I only have a few followers. That’s my choice.

I wrote a commentary about the blog awards list of nomineessometime last week. My observation was based on the criteria set and how they were not followed by the screening or organizing committee.

So how do plurk and twitter come into the picture.?

Some birdbrained plurker commented :

Lol, nakakaloka naman ito. Bakit hindi na lang sila gumawa ng sariling award body?

I am sorry about the ad hominem attack. Kawawa naman yong bird. *heh*

Kita mo naman ang mga Pinoy, imbes na namnamin ang mga criticism kung may katotohanan, bigla kang ipagtsisimisan sa Plurk. hahaha. Honey, ang alak na nakakabawas ng utak. Stop drinking as you what you claim in your blog.

This Ca t never entertains debate in her blog. She is fantasizing to be an ambassadress of world peace so comments are moderated and deleted if they would contribute to another world war.

So your friends’ opinion that my post was just a bait something something… forget it…I don’t bait the fish…I catch them with dynamites. My blog is getting decent traffic long before you even conceive your free-hosted blog. Even without those awards, gimmicks, advices on how to make money on-line, this blog thrives on readers who have enough intelligence to read my irreverent posts and laugh at my dark humor. Besides, as I have been saying before, I am paying for my webhosting so that I can freely write whatever comes to my mind as long as it is not bloody brutal that would cause someone to lose her sound mind.

If some people’s feathers are ruffled, they are free to flap their wings and crow. Promise, I would not ask the cats to catch the birds. I also won’t use my strange incantations to make some eyes bulge or hair to fall. Erase, erase. But if people discuss about me in twitter and plurk, I might change my mind. My black book has been lying in the corner of my room…waiting to be opened… HEEELLO.

Going to the blog award results…

I won’t comment about the quality of the blogs selected. That is the prerogative of the judges. I do not care if they chose a blog that focuses only to what men wear for lifestyle and fashion and merely post a picture of a product.

What I am worried about is the non-conformity to the standards/ criteria and eligibilities set by the
award body.

1. One blog won the best blog in business. Look for it yourself as to who or whose?

Profile:
It was jumpstarted in January 2008 by a media firm.

Let us take a look at the eligibility by the blog award body.

1.1. The blog must have been established at least four months before April 2008. January is only three months before April. Count with your fingers. Better still use a calculator.

1.2. It should not be a blog that belongs to a publishing or media groups.

Question: were these items ignored? waived? taken for granted?

2. One nominee also complained about competing with a blog that has three blog entries only. argh

But there are blogs that also deserved to win. To them congratulations.

The Ca t