The Sandmonkey is Ranting!
December 14th, 2005
Depending on where you are in the world, tomorrow (15th December) is the last possible day for voting in the in the 2005 Weblog Awards. We’re a finalist, and we’d love it if you would go there now, and again tomorrow, to vote for for ‘This is Zimbabwe’.
Please click on the flashing icon in the column on the right, or visit this link to vote now. Remember, you can vote once a day until the voting closes!
We had a great response to our call for votes yesterday. When we sent out our email yesterday, our votes stood at 514. The current totals show that we have increased our votes by a whopping 275 votes!
Yesterday we asked if you could help us to become the top African blog in a category that we share with the Middle East (Best Middle East or Africa blog). Our closest African competitor comes from Egypt – Rantings of a Sandmonkey.
Well, we’ve now moved past the Sandmonkey – and the sandmonkey is really ranting! Here’s what he posted on his blog a shortwhile ago!
Please vote for the angels’ sake!
There is only 2 days left and Zimbabwe is gaining on me. I don’t know how they manage to pull 150 votes a day, but I am guessing they must be using some zimbabwean internet Voodo rituals or something. In case you didn’t know, using internet vodoo rituals gives angels cancer. Show them that you oppose Vodoo and giving angelscancer and vote for me. I figure a good 300 vote margin should send them Vodoo-using-angel-cancer-giving-zimbabweans a message that says loud and clear that “Giving Angels Cancer is not cool!” by you. Otherwise, what would the children say? That you allowed angels to get cancer when you could’ve stopped it because you were too lazy to vote for the sandmonkey? What a great role model you are being. SHAME!
Stop Vodoo Voting now and vote for me. Do it for the angels. Ohh and the Children. Don’t forget the children!
“Vodoo-using-angel-cancer-giving-zimbabweans” … That’s a neat twist on the usual names pro-democracy Zimbabweans are called. Makes a change from ‘enemy of the state’, or ‘British stooge’, or ‘Blair’s puppet’.
Come on everyone, you know what to do if you want to react!
Sokwanele – Zvakwana – Enough is Enough
December 14th, 2005 23:10
Come on dude, as smear campaigning propaganda goes, calling you “Vodoo-using-angel-cancer-giving-zimbabweans” is pretty damn inventive. Gotta give me props for that at least, you know?
All joking aside, and outside this competition, you know I support your efforts and got nothing but love for pro democracy zimbabweans. It’s just hard to concede the blogsphere to you guys: the football fields are enough as it is!
December 14th, 2005 23:37
We know you care – deep down, really. And this blog has linked to your for a long time now – check it out on the right.
I think the post you put up on the 8th December puts all voting into the kind of perspective that we both understand completely : Words fail me
But hey, when you called us “Vodoo-using-angel-cancer-giving-zimbabweansâ€, we weren’t sure whether you were campaigning for votes for you…. or votes for us…. hmmm
So we’re testing it. Time will tell!
December 15th, 2005 02:55
com’on you guys. How can you pull 150 votes a day. Don’t tell me you are that popular because I won’t buy it
Give Sandmonkey a break and let him win people lol!
December 15th, 2005 16:24
Your little blogwar made it all the way to The Netherlands
http://www.sargasso.nl/?p=1753
Goodluck!
December 15th, 2005 18:21
Wow, some big response! Unfortunately we don’t understand a word of all that..? I hope people didn’t take the monkey too seriously – we knew he was joking. But we also knew it would fire up our voters who can recognise a challenge when they see one….. Thanks for letting us know.
Actually, thinking about it – maybe the Sandmonkey and we both benefit if that means more people have found out about our respective causes…Great!
December 20th, 2005 15:22
Really sorry you all missed out here as you are doing a great job. However one thing that really annoys me is why is Africa always attached to the Mid East? and Why is North Africa always detached from the rest of Africa? What is the connection between Iran Iraq and Zimbabwe that they have to be placed in the same group. I think we need to write to the award organsiers and insist that Africa and the Middle East each have their own category. And Africa is one continent we do not need to be divided into sections north and south of the Sahara!
December 21st, 2005 12:38
Owukori: We share your frustration. We knew, realistically, that we didn’t stand a chance of winning against blogs on Iraq and Iran given the fact that they are covering two areas of significant interest to the USA at the moment. Including Africa in the Middle East category therefore felt like a ‘token gesture’ of inclusion.
However, the response from the organisers is also fair. And that is that the management and organisation of these type of awards is huge and they are inundated with requests for different categories from a wide range of voices. They can’t cover absolutely ‘everything’.
They feel that if there is a demand for a weblog awards for a particular category, then someone else should take it on and try and set it up. We like the idea of an African Blog Awards! So if anyone has the know-how and energy….. maybe it will happen one day..?
December 21st, 2005 14:49
Fair enough!
July 13th, 2006 14:47
“but I am guessing they must be using some zimbabwean internet Voodo rituals or something”
Wellcome in the 21 century!
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