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Sunday, February 06, 2005

Tournament Results

Well, the competition is over and Randomness will resume its regularly scheduled programming. For full details on the contest results, click here.

Overall, all the judges were notably impressed by my writing, especially in Treading Water, but had differences of opinion on Randomness's design (from "I'm intrigued by this--Dawn has set up a blog here that integrates well with her overall website. Everywhere I look here, Dawn's personality and interests shine through" to "I'm sorry, this is really just TOO unbloglike"). Oh well, you can't please them all. One judge held back points due to my lack of sidebars, which aren't going to appear anytime soon--they tend to make pages rather cluttered. Most blogs have to cram all sorts of information onto what is essentially one page, whereas I have plenty of space to work with and the focal point of this site is not my blog. Though I do have the distinction of updating this thing since February 2002--that's right, Randomness's third birthday is coming up!--which is far longer than most bloggers have been posting. But I will say that by request, trackback functionality will likely appear here soon. [Edit: We now have trackbacks, but we've lost all of our previous comments switching from YACCS to Haloscan.] It's also interesting to note that the other contenders for the kingship focus more on political commentary and informational material while I (obviously) write more personal stories with the occasional dose of commentary.

Choice design quote: "The comments feature amused me--it appears to have been a French-language plug-in aimed at musicians with websites to allow folks to submit comments on a song. Nice adaptation." Actually, the commenting feature is intended for blogs. I changed the language to French around two years ago (geez, has it really been that long?), about the time I came back from Paris.

Choice submitted post quotes: "Powerful, gripping, emotional essay...." and "Deeply personal and moving.... She expresses herself very well--the writing is fluid and effortless to read.... Dawn lets us in to her heart and spirit instead of her mind, and I'm giving it a 5 because it was done so well."

Choice Challenge Question quotes: "Her crusade to rid the blogosphere of grammatical errors makes the Grammar Cop and the English Teacher lurking within me stand up and cheer... and the thought of beheading webmasters who continue to use multiple animated GIFs and horrific color combinations and poor layout and... *ahem* anyway, I like what this Queen has to offer." "Threatens to purge the blogosphere based on aesthetics instead of politics. Also manages to sidestep Murphy's Law by NOT having a grammar error in a post criticizing grammar errors. This girl is hardcore, and if I'm ever whacked by a disgruntled KOTB contestant, Dawn would make a good replacement judge."

And my favorite quote: "On a personal note, Dawn has the prettiest lips in the world to which I am not married."

Thanks to everyone who voted for me in the poll! I lost by the tiny margin of one point.

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