When best intentions turn into LinkedIn spam

I’m usually quite a proponent of LinkedIn, as readers of my weblog are aware, but I find it quite fascinating that the desire to have the LinkedIn site ranked highly in an influential BusinessWeek Best Of the Web poll is showing a bit of the seamy und…

LinkedIn + BusinessWeek poll = connection spam?

I’m usually quite a proponent of LinkedIn, as readers of my weblog are aware, but I find it quite fascinating that the desire to have the LinkedIn site ranked highly in an influential BusinessWeek Best Of the Web poll is…

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looking good so far…

done. Good luck Om.

done! good luck :)

Take a snapshot of the result page, you’re miles ahead at the moment :-).

You’ve got my vote. Good luck Om.

Hold on there cowboy!!!

If news.com gets half its stories from reading your site, then how can they even be in the contest?

Opps, nevermind. I forget this is: America.
tic.

I voted for you my friend…and did a write in for my site :-)

By the way, your winning so far.

Om,

There appears to be widespread confusion about the nature of this online survey, and by now I have to admit the fault is at least partly ours for not making things clear. The online survey, admittedly unscientific, is just what it is: what readers think (including readers who have been asked by site operators to vote for them–hey, we didn’t say you can’t campaign!). There won’t be “winners” per se, because we’re just going to tally up votes and lay out the results.

We’re also doing an entirely separate, more select list of editors’ picks because, well, we think that kind of judgment is one thing readers pay us to do. Reader votes won’t necessarily have any impact on that, partly because we know the survey is unscientific, partly because we also want to highlight the very best, and especially these days, those can be ones not everybody has heard about.

Anyway, good luck either way!

Done.

hey guys, thanks for the love. appreciate it.

rob,

thanks for the clarification. still, honored to be included in the list. but i appreciate you coming here and clarifying things for us.

Happy to vote for you, although frankly Slashdot and Techdirt are pretty darn good outfits. I also wrote in DSLReports.com, a dramaic example of ood reporting combined with what we now call citizen journalism. That site has more solid information on UJ.S. broadband than anyone else.

Om,
You have our vote. You seem to have a solid lead so far. We read and appereciate your blog and wish you the best.

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