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Posted: May 11th, 2010 | By Neil Pendock


Following hot on the heels of the fiasco in the UK parliamentary election last week, comes a poll of “SA’s pioneer wine bloggers” on Winetimes. The criterion is amount of posts per month and using this metric, Uncorked is placed second. Yet something is clearly wrong with the voting as winetimes’ graph below illustrates. Uncorked is the Mr. Mustard curve which is zero until June 2009 which was not the case. For example, if you bother to read this site you will see 16 postings for January 2009 as opposed to the zero recorded by Winetimes. Disregard these dodgy returns and Uncorked won in every month except for August 2009 and April 2010.

Winetimes' dodgy voting

Winetimes' dodgy voting

Uncorked demands a recount and a groveling apology from Winetimes. The bottom five positions of the Winetimes poll are filled with denizens of the Grape communal blog and quite how reproducing a weekly Business Day column available online counts as a blog is a travesty when a simple link to the BDFM site would suffice. Winetimes should seriously rethink their poll as African elections have a bad enough reputation already without this one adding to continental confusion.

 
 


Comments

 

JW

May 12, 2010 at 5:26 am

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winetimes

May 12, 2010 at 10:20 am

Hi Neil
Our apology: http://wyn.cc/zpqjp

 

Neil Pendock

May 12, 2010 at 10:52 am

Keep digging, winetimes.

If you average my posts listed in your apology you get 32.4 which makes me the winner!

My earlier posts are not archived as you state, either.

 

Andreas

May 12, 2010 at 11:24 am

Pity Cathy’s blog is not included, likee becauseit has only been live for a couple of months, but judging by the number of comments, 6 on her latest one, it’s another popular wine blog:
http://blogs.food24.com/cathymarston

 

winetimes

May 12, 2010 at 11:25 am

Hi Neil, I’m sharing the google spreadsheet with you.
We’ve divided everyone’s total posts by 16 months, including yours and
seeing that we could not find a count for the first 5 months, your
score worked out to 23.4 We all know you post the living daylight out
of wine and if we do another check in a few months time you will be
way ahead.

Original I wanted to see if wine blogging in SA was on the up or down.
On grape.co.za (you will love this) its on the down, but as a whole
(and mostly due to your contribution) its pretty steady.

My personal mission is to see if we can get the winos to up the post
rates a bit. More post, more news, more wine awareness

Ciao
Jan

 

winetimes

May 12, 2010 at 11:29 am

@Andreas
We’re busy with the new wine blogger list. I think Cathy will slot in there somewhere

 

Sumien

May 12, 2010 at 12:22 pm

What about including the http://www.winenews.co.za site – it seems to have taken over from Grape as the communal blog of choice and the post from Harry on Cathy’s latest posting is a hoot.

 

winetimes

May 12, 2010 at 1:07 pm

@Sumien
We looked at winenews.co.za but thats more of a website (with loads of “column” writers) then a blog. What we looked at here was more focused on pioneering individuals and their permanent blogspot on the web.

 

Sumien

May 12, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Fair enough, but Michael Fridjohn is hardly a blogging pioneer. His “blog” is simply a reposting of his Business Day column.

I’ve heard a rumour that Harry Haddon is to try out for the Business Day gig. I do hope its true.

 

Harry Haddon

May 13, 2010 at 3:38 pm

This is a first I’ve heard of this job application.

I am flattered by the rumour, but unfortunately it is not true.

 

Harry Haddon

May 13, 2010 at 3:39 pm

Or rather “This is the first…”

 

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May 13, 2010 at 4:08 pm

whens the price giving- who won what????

 

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September 15, 2010 at 3:56 am

Disregard these dodgy returns and Uncorked won in every month except for August 2009 and April 2010.

 

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September 15, 2010 at 3:57 am

GOOD

 

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Disregard these dodgy returns and Uncorked won in every month except for August 2009 and April 2010.

 

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April 29, 2011 at 10:22 pm

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