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by Anand M.
Original Post: BlogStars - Part Deux
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After my original post on the BlogStars contest, I got quite a bit of response from bloggers as well as Monish from Microsoft who runs the contest. In a comment on that post Monish responds to some of the points I had raised.
It is good that Microsoft is responding to this and is attempting to make this better.. Hats Off Monish.
I also got a response from Praveen Srivatsava, one of the judges, saying that he agrees on the points raised, but that this was the way to start off and that once the initial blogstars are identified, then they would go ahead and be on the panel in the next round and so on.
I am happy that things are getting better and also wanted to put in a few clarifications, just so that there is no confusion on this issues:
1. I believe that a good blog is one that has run for a minimum of 6 months or more with consistent good quality posts. This is because, the most difficult part of blogging is to keep a blog going in the long run. (I should know, this particular blog on Typepad, is more than 3 years old and I moved to this from my blogger one, which at a rough guess means I have been running Dotnet from india for near enough 5 years now)
>>A stray example ��� judges for the Miss World contest are not all ex-Miss Worlds, or associated with beauty. They are judges for their ability to identify the right talent. The personal and professional respect that Pravin, Venkat and Sanjay hold in the community and in the industry ��� I can confidently say ��� there couldn���t have been a better panel to judge this.
It is not a must to be ex-Miss World to judge a Miss World contest, but they do not allow someone like me to be a judge too.;). So to judge blogs, it is always helpful of the judges too are bloggers..
Anyway Monish, good thing that the blogroll is up and I surely would offer you all the help you need to make it a good contest...
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