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02/15/08 07:48 - ID#43350

Artvoice Best Of Buffalo 2008

Well, its that time of year when we normally lose Artvoice's Best of Buffalo contest but this year the category for Best Website is just gone so at least we cannot really lose, or do we pre-lose?

There is a category for best blogger and I selfishly voted for myself. You can feel free to vote for yourselves.

--paul

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Like the sound of (e:Terry)'s new hack and kill game with the girl with the red hair in the background? Sounds like I am reporting at some battle ground.

metalpeter writes at 12:52:03 02/16/08 - Comment #31739: I voted before I came here, there are all kinds of things I didn't answer because they don't apply to me. I think that there should be a new section devoted just to sports or maybe even a sub catorgory. Say Favortie local sport (like roller derby or college basketball) amature then a sub catgory of favortie team in that sport and then of that team favorite player. Maybe the team part could be elimanted but I would like to see a stronger sports presance maybe there could be more internet stuff also but not sure how you would do that really. Maybe best local site other then artvoice. Maybe even best social networking site (that could include national ones also) or maybe make it networking is there some local job networking sites?

paul writes at 11:01:20 02/16/08 - Comment #31732: Wow, that was fast :::link:::

zobar writes at 10:57:17 02/15/08 - Comment #31723: They actually ditched a number of categories this year â€¦ 'Best Blog' as you've noticed has turned into 'Best Blogger,' with 'Best Website' gone [I guess they were fed up with getting trounced in our own people's choice award]. They also got rid of a lot of the snarkier 'Most Rotten Person'-type awards. (e:dragonlady7) was saddened to see the 'Favorite Local Amateur Sports Team' and 'Athlete' awards gone, but in retrospect it beats the alternative [ie, 80 women totally infuriated at each other over a popularity contest].

One idea is to blow the curve in a category nobody participates in. Let me put it this way: when we say 'Blogger,' everyone says 'Buffalo Pundit,' whether they read it or not. But only about six people in the city are going to have an opinion on Buffalo's Best Writer [and if AV's book reviews are any indication, they're probably all terrible writers of terrible poetry]. Or maybe (e:terry) is Buffalo's Best Genre-Defying Artist. How much of AV's aging white readership is really going to have an opinion on Best Soul Food? Can it really compare to (e:matthew)'s hypothetical chicken and gluten-free waffles? Just sayin'.

Another fun idea is to vote as a bloc in a category that does not generally invite consensus. Everyone has an opinion on Loudest Complainer, and they're all different. [Unfortunately I don't think the Loudest Complainer gets a plaque, too bad.] The 24 could certainly be my Favorite House or Building, but there's always the terrible possibility of losing that category to the Terminal.

You can totally win this, and create small amounts of public chaos at the same time - a win-win - if you use a little imagination.

- Z

drew writes at 09:15:45 02/15/08 - Comment #31722: I feel like we should vote as a bloc, so that we have more influence. Shall we have an estrip primary, and then all go and vote for the winner at the artvoice site?

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06/06/07 07:22 - ID#39552

Server Move

Moved the server from the upstairs to the downstairs of artvoice. TOok only a couple minutes and everything went smoothy. Thank you Jaimie Moses for letting us serve from you data center and thanks Jake for setting everything up.

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04/30/07 09:12 - ID#39110

We lost the artvoice best of buffalo

Same as always, we lost again. Maybe next year (e:lilho) will vote. The food was tasty again. I particularly liked the ribs.

I still can't upload anything on my time warner connection or even access my gmail.

news writes at 01:35:47 05/03/07 - Comment #18095: It's really all about the voting and any of our peeps don't vote.

mike writes at 01:17:20 05/03/07 - Comment #18094: i actually love that Wilson Farms and believe it could be the best convenience store in Buffalo. After Rudy's of course that is, but that won't win, its in the 'burbs.

metalpeter writes at 06:21:52 05/02/07 - Comment #18086: First of all it is all about the amounts of votes. If someone has heard of a blog then they will pick that one the same thing with best buffalo website. It isn't like you have all these places and you rate them it is really a popularity contest. It is kinda like when WWE has bikini contests and the fans never yell at who is the hotest the yell at the fan favorite it is kinda the same thing here. Oh Josh When I used to Work there that Wilson Farms was the best store in the city. It was basicly a small supermarket. It also was the highest grossing one in sales. Part of that is the selection of items they had and some of it was all the hot cashiers and Stock Boys like my self who did a really good job and a few of the managers. But in terms of voting you had so many people who shoped there that it gets a lot of votes. The awards are really about numbers. In terms of hearing about (e:strip) there isn't a lot of press out there. In a way that is kinda good. What I mean is that if (e:strip) got to big then the community aspect would be different. You might have 30 groups and each group of friends was like 20 people and none of the groups interacted with each other. But that being said I think it would be good for (e:strip) to expand.

buffalopundit writes at 07:53:36 05/01/07 - Comment #18053: <blockquote>Every year the winner is usually a local blog that virtually nobody reads yet certain people that give away these awards are aware of.</blockquote>

Are you serious?

mastermindkg writes at 04:52:08 05/01/07 - Comment #18051: How is this site promoted? Other than ArtVoice? I found it on uhm...buffalo.com or something.

jason writes at 03:54:18 05/01/07 - Comment #18050: Exactly Josh. If best means riddled with panhandlers and degenerates on a daily basis, yeah it must be up there with any shithole in the city.

joshua writes at 10:13:45 05/01/07 - Comment #18033: Its a complete sham that they cannot appreciate the idea of a community blog site. Every year the winner is usually a local blog that virtually nobody reads yet certain people that give away these awards are aware of.

At least you got a free meal out of it, but the "best of Buffalo" awards are ludicrous anyway. Who actually believes that the Wilson Farms next to my house has been Buffalo's "best" convenience store?

imk2 writes at 08:29:35 05/01/07 - Comment #18028: we also don't have any connection. its been out sice saturday.

lilho writes at 10:02:16 04/30/07 - Comment #18024: i know, i know. you don't have to make it seem like it was my fault though. and anyway, who says you have to win an award to be the best???? competition is a dangerous thing.

james writes at 09:58:41 04/30/07 - Comment #18023: so they are to blaim! They shall pay dearly.

leetee writes at 09:18:31 04/30/07 - Comment #18021: No way!? (e:strip) lost? *pout* I voted!

We can't access our gmail, either... apparently, anything with a "secure login" won't be available until the Time Warner geniuses... uh, i think they told me "code every site by hand".

We also have cable tv issues. Lovely.

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04/29/07 08:51 - ID#39094

Artvoice Best of Buffalo 2007

Be sure not to miss the Best of Buffalo party, Monday April 30 at the Town Ballroom (681 Main St) from 6-9pm, with complimentary food from Buffalo's best restaurants, and live music with the Skiffle Minstrals and the Steam Donkeys. quoted from artvoice

Ya, so we are nominated for best web site in Buffalo. Let's see if we win this year, of if it will have to wait till next year. Food is great though.

--paul

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02/20/07 12:22 - ID#38215

Artvoice Best Of Buffalo Contest

It;'s that time of year again when we lose the annual Artvoice Best of Buffalo Award ;(

Maybe this year we could win if everyone voted estrip.org for BEST LOCAL WEBSITE instead of half of the people voting for best local web site and the other half voting for best local blog. Estrip.org is not a blog, it is a blogging website. As I said last year, if you vote, vote best local website for the site and vote a specific user's blog for best local blog.

Both are in the "People you Know Category" In order for your vote to count you need to vote for 30 Best of Buffalo Topics. Voting is much easier this year. I like the new look of the voting interface ;)

To sign up go to

and sign up to vote. Get all your friends to vote too.

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05/08/06 07:14 - ID#30271

Artvoice Best of Buffalo

First of congratulations to buffalopundit for winning best blog. I appologize that (e:lilho) stared booing. Turns out she didn't even vote,lol.

I requested that no one vote for us as best blog being that we are a blogging community and not a blog. That put us in much steeper competition for best web site, which we also lost.

No matter what the party was excellent and the food was delicious. Escpecially the ribs from BW and the sushi from Tsunami.

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05/06/06 04:03 - ID#30263

Maybe we will win?

I was looking at the other competition for best local blog and I think there is a possibilty of winning. It all depends of how people perceived the meaning of blog. We are more of a blogging community.

I think we have a lot going over

but I think we have some still competition from

and

However, I personally voted us for best local website and I have a feeling lots of the readers did to, so that probably reduced our overall votes in the best local website category.

I honestly cannot believe buffalo.com, buffalohaybars.com and buffalobarfly are on the best website list.

Well, best of luck. See you at the event.

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03/05/06 12:11 - ID#30211

Best of Artvoice

Well, it's been another year since we didn't win the Artvoice Best of 2005 contest. I hope maybe this year we will have a better chance. I think last year a lot of people voted online and then it seems like those votes went away at some point. Maybe someone else knows more details about how that worked.

Another problem is that a lot of you voted for best blog but we aren't really a blog, we are a blogging/community website, and they do have a best website award so it would be best to vote for that. If you want to vote for someone's individual blog that would seem more appropriate for the best blog contest.

Anyhow, I guess we should try again although the motivation of getting ntoiced so that we can get a new server has been resolved since Artvoice is hosting us as a result of meeting Jamie at the event last year.

The best way is probably to vote by filliing out a ballot in artvoice but you can also click on the image above to vote online