For those of you who have not had the opportunity to read Mr. Fabulous yet today, he has issued a final call to arms for getting votes at The Blogger’s Choice Awards.  He is one of the blogs up against the behemoth mongrel child known as Douche Dooce.  I beg of you to consider voting for him.  This corporate whore sellout cannot win in a category she has absolutely no place being in.

As for my own bid to become The Best Videoblogger at the same awards, well let’s just say I’m throwing in the active towel.  I’ll leave my promo video and the graphic up, but I will no longer be actively whoreing myself out for votes.  As of this morning I am 145 votes behind the leader.  The good news about it is that the leader right now is not YouTube… it is in fact Brotherhood 2.0. 

Brotherhood 2.0, as I may have mentioned before, is really a pretty great concept.  Their videos are posted daily and generally intertwine with each other.  It is in fact a conversation you can follow.  These guys are actual video bloggers truest to the concept that I have seen in that category.  Whereas I do videos generally once a week… they do it every day which to me is more of what vlogging should really be.  My problem with YouTube being nominated, is that they were not nominated for any videos they created.  They were nominated for highlighting other people’s content.  That to me does not a video blogger make.  Additionally, it appears that YouTube will start experimenting with advertising come this summer.  I can’t say that I’m all that surprised considering the price they bought for… but I am a bit saddened.

I would like to thank everyone who did vote for me.  I really do appreciate the support.  This basically comes on the heels of not only being left behind by over 100 votes, but also because while I currently hold third place, the fourth place Vlogger (Maryccc) has earned 69 VERY suspicious votes.  Most of them are names similar to her own, plus the months of the year, and the days of the week.  The vast majority of them only have one vote cast.  All of this is indicative of the proverbial “stuffing the ballot box”.  This vlogger has obviously corrupted the category and is obviously a phony.  I left a comment both on the site and her blog to tell her so.  She also endangers Brotherhood 2.0‘s chances of winning.

So to assure that Brotherhood 2.0 wins over the corporate mongers at YouTube and the ballot stuffing practices of Maryccc… I am officially throwing my support behind them.  You can vote for them here.  I already did.

Thanks again!  See you tomorrow for the Smorgashboard.