Help Dave Cameron of USS Mariner and FanGraphs.
by Matthew on Nov 18, 2008 9:40 PM PST
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PrintFirstly, apologies if this has been previously mentioned here, you guys go through so much stuff it's hard for a non-regular to keep track of.
If not, or if you haven't yet seen any of the various posts around the blogosphere (example), Dave Cameron is a finalist for a $10,000 scholarship based on his online writing. For some reason, the winner is decided by an online poll and right now Dave is in a close second place, with voting ending on Thursday.
If you've seen or read any of Dave's work at USS Mariner, FanGraphs, BP, Hardball Times, etc and appreciate all the time he puts in for basically nothing, please take about five seconds of your time and click here and vote for David Cameron. It's a chance to make a real difference for someone and it comes with the great benefit of costing you nothing but two or three mouse clicks.
Thanks.
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And I just know saw that it was posted under a fanShot.
Sorry, we at LL tend to ignore them so I get in the habit of only looking at diaries and front page content.
If any of the editors feel this is a duplicate entry, feel free to delete. (But vote first! [if you want to] )
Who the hell is this David Mauro dude
and what the hell did he do with Dave’s lead?
I know that's a pisser, baby.
In addition toe the blog he's nominated for, he's a contributor at DailyKos.
There’s been a huge push to get him votes there.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 19, 2008 1:00 AM PST up reply actions
David Mauro has been spamming diaries on Kos getting
people to vote for him.
He’s also been extremely critical of David Cameron. “Baseball,” apparently, in the words of him and his surrogates, is a useless “bourgeois” pastime. The funny thing is that a few A’s fan Kossacks posted, declaring their hatred of sabermatics and its “taint” on “true” baseball.
I’m guessing they don’t read AN.
Wait, are you serious?
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Anyone who says that should be placed in a vise with their eyelids pried open
and compelled to watch CNN election coverage for 200 hours straight.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Thing is
They already do that.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson
let's stop wasting time here...
three words:
Bamboo slivers, fingernails…
Get to work, boys!
"I have more questions after these."-WaddellCanseco
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 19, 2008 5:01 PM PST up reply actions
I can't tell if basing the final decision for an online-writing-based scholarship on an online poll is utterly brilliant or utterly moronic
I also have a pretty high shame threshold. @('.')@
In terms of fairness, it's ridiculous.
In terms of pulling in traffic from highly trafficked websites, it’s genius.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 19, 2008 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
no, actually, there's a good fairness argument for it
“OK, so you think you’re a good Intertubes writer? Well, what’s the most true measure of the effectiveness of an Intertubes writer? No, not simple clicks or eyeballs, but click-throughs—i.e., the ability to direct your readership to engage in defined, discrete, quantifiable actions. If you are truly Teh Gratest Intertubes Writer, you will be able to motivate your readers to elevate your poll numbers by the sheer force of your writing skilz.”
I also have a pretty high shame threshold. @('.')@
that said, I doubt the scholarship people are that smart or cynical
I also have a pretty high shame threshold. @('.')@
The problem is that the vast majority of people voting for him AREN'T his readers.
They’re people who read Kos and are voting for him based on the two diaries per day that get bumped to the front page.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 19, 2008 1:17 PM PST up reply actions
I guess... that argument doesn't carry a lot of weight with me because it's obvious that most of Cameron's voters aren't USS Mariner people either
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
It's far more likely that they're familiar with his work, though.
Dave writes at Fangraphs, he wrote for BP and he’s generally quite well known. Mauro writes for a local political blog. No one at Kos would have known who he was if it wasn’t for the constant diary posting.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 19, 2008 8:02 PM PST up reply actions
You mean, it seemed like an excellent idea 3 years ago but has steadily gotten worse since?
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
he should move to his next career as the Human Anagram
Damn, there’s a lot of great phrases you can make with his name.
Cairn Bridge
Dire Carbing
Bring a dicer
I also have a pretty high shame threshold. @('.')@
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