Please Vote Daily To Help Cultofmac Win Golden Retrevo Award

Traci Dauphin ()

Please Vote Daily To Help Cultofmac Win Golden Retrevo AwardI know we keep harping on about this, but there’s only 10 days left to vote for Cultofmac.com in the Golden Retrevo Awards.

Help Cultofmac win the “All Things Apple” division by voting here. Please vote often (one vote per reader, per day). Voting ends on Monday, January 25, 2010.

You may think we’re a**holes for promoting ourselves again but this is our first nomination ever. We are super jazzed and want to win this — but we need your help.

The award honors the best and brightest independent bloggers of the gadget blogosphere. Nominations and voting comes from gadget enthusiasts.

Retrevo is a leading consumer electronics shopping and review site. Read more about the award here.

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Traci Dauphin

Traci Dauphin is the Managing Editor at Cult of Mac. She keeps the trains running on time. Traci also writes product reviews and shoots great galleries of events like Macworld.

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  • Gazoobee

    This is stupid.

    If you *do* win it will be a lie, because you are gaming the system. The way it works is that if people think you are good, they vote for you. If you are promoting yourself and asking people to vote for you, you’re skewing the results.

    Making us aware that you are up for the award is one thing, but this is just shameless shilling.

    What do you get if you win anyway? Money, and self promotion. Jeez what noble goals *they* are. Why not just be a decent human and let the world judge you they way they would anyway (without the prodding)?

  • Jenny

    I love your site and it’s really informative, I check it every other day. Congrats on the nomination, that’s pretty cool.

    Keep up the good work!!!

  • Hatuey

    Congrats, Cult of Mac is my home page on Safari. I love all the information I can find here. Every morning, coffee and CultOMac.

    I don’t mind self-promotion. Everyone should toot their horn every now and then. Keep up the good work.

  • Milo Jones

    This award seems to be based solely on popularity. Why else would it ask people to vote daily instead of just one time? I see nothing wrong in asking readers to shamelessly vote for your site especially if they are reading it. It seems like a total waste of time to read something that you don’t even like! How else are you expected to win? These negative comments about self promotion annoy me. What the f**k, facebook and twitter are all about self promotion and we all do it! Good luck. Now I really hope you win!

  • http://cultofmac.com Leander Kahney

    Leander here. Sorry for being pushy, but:

    1. Awards are important for prestige and advertising. Nothing attracts advertisers that a cupboard full of awards. It’s trite but true.
    2. Retrevo has designed the voting mechanism to promote Retrevo, not the sites that have been nominated. By making nominees shake the trees for votes, Retrevo gets inbound links and name recognition. It’s shameless but clever — and clearly, we’re playing along.

  • Alex

    “You may think we’re a**holes for promoting ourselves again”

    Congratulations you just read my mind!

  • Miguel A

    You can count with my daily vote.
    OK, you’re not perfect, but you still one of my favs (daily check).

    Cheers!

  • chano

    In your words: The award honors the best and brightest independent bloggers of the gadget blogosphere.
    You want to win this recognition for CoM as best and brightest of breed.
    You want my vote to help you win.
    You want me to lie for CoM, therefore.
    There are vastly better sites than CoM in its field. I mean VASTLY better.
    CoM exists to promote all that is trivial in tech news. Mostly itself.
    The prime example of promoting the trivial is the blatant ‘in your face’ advertising of the Kahney CoM book – the highest ranking book in the buyer’s remorse league table.
    Next year we will likely have the movie of the book (gawd help us), followed soon after by the T shirt, the socks and the bedcover.
    I come to CoM only for the sake of completeness and for some of its writers.
    I come to CoM also to be reminded of the low-point of the benchmark, the missed opportunity as it were.
    You have some promising talent on CoM but the site has no DNA other than the shameless, vapid self-promotion of mediocrity.
    I will follow the talent when it leaves CoM.
    It would not take a great deal of effort to find some merit to draw people here. I mean, notwithstanding the crap book of the same name, this could have been a fine site, funny, engaging, INFORMATIVE, challenging and more.
    Sadly, your lea(n)der seems to lack the will to embrace excellence.
    Big FAIL.
    My vote goes elsewhere, to a place where the DNA is vibrant but understated.
    My sincere apologies to the talented ones here.
    All I can suggest is to take your talents where they can really shine.
    Chandra C
    It’s a shame about CoM.

  • Traci Dauphin

    Chandra (my former facebook friend)

    While we completely disagree with your assessment of the site, you are obviously a good writer. We are always looking for ways (and writers) to make the site better. Instead of spreading hate and negativity, why not help us to make the site better?

    If you have any interest in working with us send us an email.

    btw-which sites do you think are better?

  • David

    Wow, quite a range of love and hate in this thread. Makes my day job look completely blissful by comparison to writing a tech blog. I think CoM is dong a fine job and encourage you all to keep up the great work, especially the software and app reviews.

  • Alex

    Well put Chandra … Thanks for putting so much of what I think about this site think into words and, in a much more eloquent fashion then I ever would be capable of.

    Do you have blog ?