Tagline Contest: Time to Vote!
Category: Navel Gazing...
Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 02:27 PM [GMT-6]

Okey-dokey, the moment you've been waiting for has arrived. The poll is now open for voting for the Gazette's new tagline. [The details of the contest are here.]

The six entries in the poll were the top vote-getters from the esteemed Celebrity Panel of Judges, each of whom was selected for his or her unique qualifications, including superior intelligence, creativity, scholarliness, vocabulary, hygiene, and also the fact that they didn't bother to submit a proposed tagline so they're sure to be apathetic objective. Seriously, though, I'd like to thank the following folks for serving on the judging panel:

  • Writer Deb Thompson, blogging from California via Write Lightning
  • David Gerstman, aka Soccer Dad, weighing in from Maryland
  • Midland Media Mogul Jeff McDonald who holds forth at ArchaeoTexture
  • Patti Niehoff from the great state of Ohio, proprietress of White Pebble
  • The mysterious FooRider who crafts Random Synaptic Misfires from his secret hideaway in north Texas
  • The lovely and talented Phyllis, who represents the Gazette's vast and esteemed non-blogging readership

Knowing how much you guys dig stats, I thought I share these with you:

  • 38 entries
  • 20 contributors
    • 14 of whom are bloggers
    • 9 of whom live in Midland
    • 18 of whom live in the USA
  • 4 entries were in Latin. Or something resembling Latin. Thankfully, none of them made the cut, as I have no idea how they'd really have translated.
  • My lone tagline suggestion didn't make the cut.

Voting Guidelines and Other Semi-Official Stuff

  • The poll will be up for a couple of weeks or so. You can click on the preceding link if you're ready now; if you want to take some time to consult a ouija board or your local guru, there'll be a link over at the top of the sidebar on the Gazette's home page. [I never could figure out how to embed the poll itself into this page. It can probably be done via framesets, but I abhor them.]
  • Vote as often as the cookie allows.
  • Everyone is eligible to vote, whether you submittted an entry or not.
  • I cannot tell who votes for what. Really.

Thanks again to everyone who submitted an entry, and to those who thought up entries but decided they were lame and didn't submit them. And stay tuned for the results and -- someday -- the new layout!

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Comments

I'd just like to mention that all those voting for my tagline will receive... huh? What's that?

Oh, no electioneering within 2 posts of the voting announcement. Sorry, no harm intended.

Posted by: Bret at September 20, 2006 09:38 PM

Don't make me sic the FEC on you, 'cause you know I will.

Posted by: Eric at September 20, 2006 10:28 PM

What I want to know is, if we choose the wisdom one, are you going to start providing it? Cause some mean doctor took out my wisdom producers a while back and it's been downhill ever since. :)

Posted by: beth at September 21, 2006 06:33 AM

Beth, that's a very real concern I have about that particular tagline. It comes across as a bit hubristic, besides being inaccurate. I suppose that the fact that I'd open things up for such a possibility via a public solicitation of phrases is proof of its inaccuracy.

But, to answer your question, no...I shall not be swayed to rise to the level of my tagline. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at September 21, 2006 09:02 AM

I still think it should be "Fiery Little Bytes..." in Latin. To whom should I address my complaints?

Posted by: gwynne at September 21, 2006 07:36 PM

Umm...the Celebrity Judging Panel?

Posted by: Eric at September 21, 2006 08:28 PM

Dear Celebrity Judging Panel,

First, I commend you on a job well done. Given the difficult job that you had of selecting six worthy candidates from such an outstanding pool, you did a fine, fine job.

Second, I would like to thank The CJP for nominating one of my suggestions. I am trying not to let this go to my head, but I am forever in your debt.

And finally, I would like to make a request (not a "complaint" really, scratch that). In the event that the winner is Fiery Little Bytes of West Texas Wisdom (which was not my suggestion by the way, just to clear up any misgivings about potential conflicts of interest, but I do think it is the best of the best), I request that the tagline be translated into Latin as a show of just how wise and well educated The Ant is. Also, this would protect The Ant from actually having to come up with wise material all the time because most of his readers will not know what his tagline says; they will only know that it looks really cool. And wise. And educated. And that is the very essence of The Gazette.

Thank you.

:-)

Posted by: gwynne at September 22, 2006 12:28 AM

And that is the very essence of The Gazette.

And that would be something along the lines of "We look better than we really are." ;-)

I found a similar tagline in a book I'm reading: "One person's signal is another person's noise."

Posted by: Eric at September 22, 2006 08:00 AM

Well, that depends on what your definition of "is" is. I first said...

...how wise and well educated The Ant is.

With the emphasis on "is."

But it never hurts to also look cool, wise and well-educated. ;-)

Posted by: gwynne at September 22, 2006 03:29 PM

But it never hurts to also look cool, wise and well-educated.

Having never been able to accomplish that, I'll have to take your word for it. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at September 22, 2006 03:41 PM

I speak as if I'm an expert on such things...but pay no attention. ;-)

Posted by: gwynne at September 22, 2006 04:28 PM
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