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Pittsburgh’s Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011

So, this thing happened…

CBS Pittsburgh’s Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011

There was blogging, there was voting.  There was certainly some goofiness.  I still haven’t been contacted by anyone at CBS.  I know other bloggers have.  Just so they know, the contact form on my blog works quite well.  There was something about prizes, but the rules detailing how one could claim a prize are gone.  I really thought I had no chance of winning, as there are so many cool blogs out there.  I’m not sure what kind of bragging rights this gives me.  Do I get a T-shirt or stickers or something?  “Hey, I’m annoying and goofy on the internet!”

It’s good to know that I’m the people’s choice, and not the editor’s choice.  I blog for the people, not for the editors.  I bet I won begrudgingly.  Ha ha.  They were probably all like “Oh crap, not that one!”.  I have to say thank you to whoever nominated me, and thank you for all my friends & family (& readers – who most likely fall into one of the aforementioned groups) who voted!

Here are the results…

Dining and Entertainment

• People’s Choice: World (and Lunar) Domination
• Editor’s Choice: Cooking in College

Local Affairs

• People’s Choice: The ‘Burgh, Exposed
• Editor’s Choice: The Pittsburgh Comet

Sports

• People’s Choice: The Pensblog
• Editor’s Choice: Bucs Dugout

Health, Fitness and Medical

• People’s Choice: Thomas Marshall Does It All
• Editor’s Choice: Thomas Marshall Does It All

Lifestyle and Family

• People’s Choice: Brown Eyed Baker
• Editor’s Choice: Brown Eyed Baker

Everything Else

• People’s Choice: YaJagoff
• Editor’s Choice: That’s Church

I call shenanigans on Only In Pittsburgh & Beyond Willpower not winning at least one “choice” in their respective categories.  It’s also odd that some of the people’s choice & editor’s choice were the same thing…  Why not spread the love?  I will go all mushy on you now, & say that everyone wins here, because we all got some exposure & hopefully traffic to our blogs that we might not have had before.  I’ve even added a few of these to my WordPress reader/feed.  Go check out all the blogs and their descriptions, and see if there’s something that piques your interest!

Some of the ones I dig:

• Only In Pittsburgh
• Beyond Willpower
• Ali’s Art Adventures
• Ya Jagoff
• That’s Church
• I ♥ PGH
• Mr. Baconpants
• Burgh Baby
• The Pens Blog
• The Pens Nation

Hopefully we all say “yinz” without noticing and with pride.  Thanks CBS & Pittsburgh!  And, of course, thanks to these guys & gals for letting me know what’s up!

Thanks Peeps!

CBSPittsburgh.com’s Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011

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