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Top Blogger January 2011 - And The Winner Is.....
Welcome once again to the white-knuckle ride that is......'Top Blogger' on AmeriCymru. This month we threw in a dash of subjectivity to supplement our Leaderboard stats and these are the rankings we came up with:-
First Place: Lorin Morgan-Richards ( Gold Sheep of Excellence )
Second Place: Noelle Hughes ( Silver Sheep of Excellence )
Third Place: SwanseaJack ( Bronze Sheep of Excellence )
For those who are interested in the tortuous deliberations and metaphysical meanderings of our adjudication process, an explanation follows. In terms of the algorithm the scores in the current top twenty are as follows:-
SwanseaJack 25
Lorin Morgan-Richards 13
Noelle Hughes 11
However 11 of Swansea's points are for a blog posted last month and so we arrive at the following position after subtracting these points:-
SwanseaJack 14
Lorin Morgan-Richards 13
Noelle Hughes 11
Ten points were awarded to Noelle Hughes for being our most prolific ranking blogger this month and twenty points were awarded to Lorin for bringing the most traffic to the site and for the quality of his contributions. The 'quality' category is the most difficult to adjudicate since it involves a highly subjective judgement but we thought that in this case they were deserved in recognition of Lorin' efforts to publicize an extremely talented Welsh artist:- Interview with Welsh artist Anthony Richards, realism extraordinaire!
Congratulations/Llongyfarchion to all our winners. Sheep of Excellence are on their way!
This Months Prize
Iraq-bound young squaddie Ronnie takes something dodgy and falls asleep for three nights in a filthy hovel where he has the strangest of dreams. He watches the tattoed tribes of modern Britain assemble to speak with a grinning man playing war games. Arthurian legend merges with its twenty-first century counterpart in a biting commentary on leadership, individualism and the divisions in British society. Meanwhile Cardiff gangsta Max is fed up with life in his favourite nightclub, Rome, and chases a vision of the perfect woman in far flung parts of his country.
http://www.serenbooks.com/book/the-dreams-of-max-and-ronnie/9781854115027?cid=176We will be announcing next month's Top Blogger prize tomorrow. Meanwhile for anyone interested in our new Top Blogger rules they can be found here:- New Rules For Top Blogger Competition