Update: Just 5 more days of voting are left so any extra votes you have would be great. I've updated the places below.
Just trying to have one final push for votes in this years Blogging Awards. Any votes you can throw my way would be much appreciated :) And thanks to everyone who has already voted! Note: If you have already voted, don't forget to vote for us in the other categories below.
Best Pop Culture Blog - Currently 1st - Vote Here
Best Blog About Stuff - Currently 2nd - Vote Here
Best Entertainment Blog - Currently 4th - Vote Here
Best Blog Design - Currently 6th - Vote Here
1) Register at the Site here.
2) Goto the DarkUFO page here and vote :)
3) If you don't get a confirmation email, get a free gmail account they seem to work the best.
Update: 23rd Sept Up to 167 Votes. Up to 4th Place only 50 votes away from 3rd :)
Update: 16th Sept Up to 148 Votes, still in 5th place but only 3 votes behind 4th and 50 more for 3rd. Would be nice to get into the top 3 at least :) Thank to everyone who has voted.
Update: 11th Sept We're up to 5th place now with 130 votes. Need 21 more to get to 4th :)
Update: 9th Sept We're now up to 6th place with 110 votes. Thanks for all the votes and any more would be much appreciated.
Update: 7th Sept We're now up to 90 Votes on the front page :) I'm sure we can do better than 90 though ;)
Update: We currently have 58 votes and are nearly on the first page. Please keep the votes coming here. We had 1200 people signup to the brackets so I'm hoping we can get you all to vote here as well :)
Hey All, as most of you know, I have my own site, but I post here all the time to help out or cover for my good friend Andy (DarkUFO).
Well a couple of the main reasons are, because he is a great guy and runs the Best LOST site on the net!!
Yes, I love my site and love seeing it grow, but I know how much time and effort goes into a site like this. So I am just honored to be able to help and be a part of it all and to post for all you wonderful and passionate fans out there!!
Earlier today, I received a message informing me that DarkUFO was nominated for Best Entertainment Blog for the Bloggers Choice Awards, but that the site had ONLY 2 votes!?
The site currently in the lead is a blog for The Office with over 500 votes and I am sure we can easily catch up and pass them.
I know any site can be nominated, but if you truly love this site and think this is one of the Best Entertainment sites out there, then please take a few moments to vote for DarkUFO!!
Here is the link to Main page of the site: Bloggers Choice Awards 2008
If you would like to vote for Dark use the following link:
Vote for DarkUFO as Best Entertainment Blog
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DarkUFO Nominated for Best Entertainment Blog - Final Push for Votes
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131 Comments:
Thanks for posting mate, I had no idea!
WOW AWESOME, THIS IS THE BEST WEBSITE EVER, LET ALONE BLOG!!!!!
Make sure to vote guys!!
I voted for this blog.
Thanks all. It will be hard to get anywhere near 500. If it didn't require signup we'd cruise it :)
Awesome news, i'll register or w/e i need to later on today sometime but will definitely vote for ya. Your blog deserves ya do a great job keepin us all informed and busy during the hiatus.
Thanks Hurley, that's very kind of you.
I voted!!! Dark...fantastic job with your blog!!! :))))
Thanks Sluky :)
Oh man...I hate those "must sign-in" sites... :(
(except yours, Andy!) :D
By the way, I already voted... ;)
Thanks Losteech, nice one.
Just voted! DarkUFO definitively deserves to win!! :)
Signed up and voted. Hopefully many many more will do likewise. DarkUFO rules all.
The Office?! Gimme a break.
I'd love to vote for you Dark, but that darn site doesn't let me sign up!! :(
Thanks everyone. Don't worry if you can't sign up, I won't hold it against you ;)
Stupid computers! Keeps timing out on me when I try to sign up. I'll see what I can do when I get home.
I love The Office, but it's not exactly the kind of show you'd expect a mega-popular fansite to develop around. Besides, as a part-time contributor here, I think I'm a little biased :-p
tony passey of surefit door loves the office!!!!
the signup is a pain in the arse though...
remember they do the date the other way round.
We should be able to blow this thing out of the water. There are enough of us - COME ON! Signing up didn't take that long. I'm just waiting on their confirmation e-mail. I like "The Office" too, but there is NO WAY that should beat out this site.
I'm shaking my pom poms here, and that's not a pretty sight! Vote early and vote often.
Thanks again all. It will be interesting to see just how far we can get :)
Keep those pom poms shaking :)
I've signed in but it's taking ages to get the email confirmation....
Of course everyone should vote!
This is the best blog ever!
ps. mine is at number two because Foxy wrote a comment on it.
I voted too ! Congratulations DarkUFO for your job. ;)
Thanks Nico :)
You have my vote Andy! Congratulations!
PS: my Portuguese Lost blog, LOST in Portugal, is already in the top 10 of the foreign language category :P
I was #29. keep it going up.
Thanks all :) Good Luck Lost in Portugal :) I've voted for you as well.
I voted and signed up. It only takes a minute to sign up and we gotta get Dark into the top 5 at least.
Go Dark...viva Lost.
I was #30!
I received the confirmation email immediately.
Does anyone have a good indication for the most obnoxious blogger?
Tell me and I vote ;)
I've signed up and am just awaiting the confirmation email in order to vote. This is actually the only blog I read on a regular basis. Heck I don't even read my own as much...lol.
thats sweet i am doing a speech on Lost being addicting today in school and i mention darkufo many times as the best blog site... WISH ME LUCK!
Voted!!BTW,has everyone noticed that DarkUfo is also nomited for Best Blog About Stuff, Best Blog Design and Best Pop Culture Blog? You should vote in those categories too,there's links on the site.
Wow, thanks all :)
And good luck 815 with your speech!
OK, thanks ODI and Congratulations Andy. I just signed up and voted but my vote made only 59 votes.
It took only a couple minutes to register to vote, then of course to go back to go back to your email address and confirm your email which is the norm these days.
And no LIONSHART didn't notice this site was nominated under different categories as well, i'll go back and take a look.
Good luck DARKUFO!
Awww sorry my vote only counted as #39 not #59. Still maybe early???
voted! hope you win this dark
Voted.
LOSTNNJ Gave away a spoiler :O
Stupid! I still haven't been confirmed to vote. I tried to log in anyway and it said "oh no you have to wait for your e-mail confirmation." Well? I'm WAITING!!!!! How long do we have to vote? I'll go check.....
dang it!
JOSHUA, I gave away a spoiler? How did I do that? lol considering the only spoilers I know I get fromhere :D
I'm also waiting for the stupid conformation e-mail... I'm happy to vote when/if I finally get it. My two favorite site are up there... This one and LOLCats!
After all Andy (Dark) has done for the Lost community, how could anyone not spend 3 minutes signing up?
Not only is it the best blog, but the best site on the net! No other site do I refresh every 5 mins to see what's been updated.
So, GET ON AND VOTE DARK! :D It's the least everyone can do!
I bit the bullet and signed up. You're the only 1 I would do this for Dark. Waiting on the email so I can cast my vote. tick tock. Hope I can vote b4 I'm inundated with spam at least. LOL.
To vote Dark as "Best blog about stuff" : http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/42387
To vote Dark as "Best blog design":
http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/56407
To vote Dark as "Best pop culture blog":
http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/42385
NOW GET ON AND DO IT :D
Seriously, I was looking at the number of votes on yesterdays brackets, there were over 3,000 votes per bracket.
If there are that many people voting on these brackets (there are only 1214 people playing in the bracket contest), surely those of you who are popping over here to vote on these brackets can take 3 minutes to sign up and vote for DARKUFO; the link has been provided by The Odi.
Incidently my confirmation email was sent to me immediately.
LOSTINNJ - Oh sure. Instant e-mail. Brat! :>
Already signed and voted. YAY for DarkUFO, the best entertainment blog! :D
BTW, thanks for the links, Pangy!
Stupid! I still haven't been confirmed to vote. I tried to log in anyway and it said "oh no you have to wait for your e-mail confirmation." Well? I'm WAITING!!!!!
Same here.
I am still waiting.
YOU BUNCH OF LOSERS.
Good, at least I know I'm not the only one who hasn't gotten an email confirmation.
I didn't get one using my regular email. It never arrived. :/
So I used a gmail account I have and it arrived instantly.
same here, so I used gmail...and it worked
I tried a second account (Yahoo) and still haven't gotten a confirmation to that one either. Grrrr... lol.
I voted! I used gmail, it worked immediately.
I'm glad we can do something to show our appreciation for Dark!
Thanks everyone, really appreciate all the votes.
Those of you having troubles getting the confirmation emails, make sure you check your spam boxes.
:)
I voted as well.
Everybody that uses this site should vote imo, because the time it takes to sign up and vote is nothing compared to the time DarkUFO and others spend on running this great site for all of us...
I'm guessing that this site has a similar issue to what the Dawgsled bracket site was having--they probably don't have their SMTP configurations set up correctly. As a result, your ISP is probably blocking emails from them.
Incidentally, this was a trivial fix for me (on the dawgsled site), so it seems to me that a "real" website like the blog voting site would have this figured out. :-)
You've totally got my vote... I've never even heard of the other sites that are currently above you !
Officetally who? DarkUFO is the best!
voted off course
No offense but do I have to trawl through 300-odd pages of nominees to find darkufo?... I havent really got that kind of time... but please accept 2-thumbs up from me.
Just click on the vote link at the bottom to go directly to our site.
Delete my last comment... I'm officially an idiot... Voting now...
You're up to 60 votes now Dark! I think you would have a lot more votes if the registration process was a tad easier.
here I am, vote n. 64
I'd be happy to vote but I'm not getting the confirmation e-mail either. Not even in my spam folder.
Where's my email???? Do you think they know I didn't use my real name??????? But I did use my real email address so I should have it by now don't you think?!
I will be voting when I get home from work... if we don't get you into the top five I'll be gutted.
And yeah, 'sign up to vote' sites suck...
you got my vote. i'm still not sure what the definition of a "blog" is, but you rock regardless.
PS: does perez hilton qualify as a blogger. cuz if so, i think he deserves the most obnoxious vote. i'll go back and check.
The spoiler was the amount of votes. lol...should have clarified. =/
went back to vote philton as most obnoxious blogger and suddenly remembered that jorge garcia (aka hurley) has a blog as well. he is nominated for best celebrity blogger, but only had 2 votes :(
i made it 3 :)
so you go to vote for dark, please cast a vote for hurley too. his blog is called dispatchesfromtheisland.
I voted for Hugo's blog too :D Now he has 7 votes.
Vote here, people: http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/45089
Just voted - I'm pleased I can do something to support this fantastic site.
I was #17...Signing up was easy.
Come on everybody, we can do better than this.
I'm going to go over and vote for Dark on the other categories...thanx lion's_heart for pointing it out
Thanx to Penguinjosh for posting the links.
Let's win this one....:]
Thanks for the link to Jorge's blog Ana - the nicest celebrity on the planet deserves some love.
Well, I took the suggestions of a few folks and signed up for gmail. Still nothing. HATE THAT SITE NOW! I might slip back into my '60s mode and declare this a conspiracy. Stupidheads!
i'm just waiting for my 'registration confirmation email' and then i will be voting. I cannot BELIEVE officetally might win again. I mean don't get me wrong, its a good site with loads of info (and i do visit it regularly as i love the office) but it doesn't have anything like the interactive experience you get here.
Oh, by the way I used by gmail account to register. If there's a problem getting the registration emails and it's similar to the bracket contests, there could be an issue with Comcast and possibly Yahoo (as Dawgfather jr said there were issues with at least those 2 ISP's with the bracket contests).
And, I see someone mentioned checking spam mail folders too...
Still waiting on a confirmation e-mail... guess I'll go try hotmail now. I suppose it's worth giving out my real e-mail address for something like this :D
Thanks all. Looks like they have some issues with their email service :(
One site I use for throwaway email addresses is.
http://email.bugmenot.com/
Link Here
DarkUFO - BRILLIANT! I went to "bugmenot" and found one login that worked. I was able to vote for all pertinent categories.
Huzzah! Take that, stupid blog website people.
I feel naughty....and I like it.
LOL :) Glad it worked. I've emailed the site owners about the problems everyone has been having.
I'm voting for YOU for president. It'll be fun. Not a tough act to follow, either.
Thanks. Have a lovely weekend.
Gmail accounts work best for registering. I tried using my Yahoo account and never received the confirmation email. When I used Gmail, the confimation arrived immediately and I happily gave you my vote!
come on, we have to be able to do better than this. the site is up to the first page, but we should be able to do much better than 90...
I mean, I love this site and all... but I refuse to register with a site just to vote.
Sorry.
But good luck anyway!
i just voted too!!you are one of the few blogs i visit every day dark !!good luck !!
Thanks everyone for all the votes and the kind comments, it really is much appreciated. Not sure we can catch the leaders but no harm in trying :)
Dark for leader of the New World Order! ;)
DON'T FORGET!
You can also vote DarkUFO as the BEST POP CULTURE BLOG on the same site!
There are more than 3000 people voting for the matches everyday. Come on, people!
I finally gave up on getting a confirmation at yahoo and just signed up for a gmail account. It's too bad their sign-up won't confirm at yahoo, I bet that's why more people aren't voting.
my vote was number 127! So now it's the 5th place! Go DarkUFO!
I love your blog DarkUFO and I would definitely vote for you if it didn't require signing up and giving all my personal details. So you have another vote even it doesn't count :(
After THREE days and THREE different accounts I finally managed to vote.
Without a gmail account you can't vote.
I have added a thread on my blog inviting people to vote for you! Go DARK go!
Thank you everyone, I really really appreciate all your votes and the time it takes to register.
Big group hug!
Yesterday I forgot to add in my comment on that website where you vote, that this is the most democratic and intelligent place to discuss about Lost and it is thanks to its moderator.
In some other famous and renowned places you cannot post links to other sites about Lost, you cannot write the link to your own site, you must watch out for everything you write, and if you make a mistake there are some supernaziMods who enjoy telling you that you are an idiot, as if making a mistake or forgetting about a stupid rule on an Internet forum about Lost would mean something in someone's life....seriously...this is supposed to be fun, my fav way to enjoy my coffee-breaks at work, where do these people live?
There's no place like DarkUFO!
Thanks Elisabetta, that was very nice of you. That's exactly the sort of site I wanted to create. I hate all the forums etc that ban you for linking to others sites etc Seriously WTF is that about? It's supposed to be fun and about the fans and if they find something interesting on another site, great. I'm certainly not the only Lost site out there and there are 100's of great sites out. That's why we try to affiliate with as many as possible and why we created the huge list of links in the links section
I couldn't get a confirmation with a hotmail account. Bugmenot didn't work, either (but what a cool site - I'll definitely use it in the future.) Finally I made a gmail account and it worked.
Every time I got frustrated and it didn't work, I'd think of all the effort you put into your site for us fans. And if I couldn't spend another three minutes to try again and vote for you, then I really didn't deserve all the enjoyment I get from your site. So I stuck with it - as should everyone else - in appreciation for our favorite Lost site! :)
Thanks Jodie, that's very sweet.
Whoo hoo! Vote #149. Just sticking to my motto:
Vote early
Vote often
Let's make this happen!
I really want to vote but the damn site hasn't sent me my confirmation email for the signup :S
well i've applied for an account and i've been waiting 2 days for a confirmation email now. dunno if this has been bought up already, sorry, i didnt bother reading the other comments. its 1:15am here and im about to go to bed. so there.
oh and by the way i have checked me spam box. turns out im off out again in a bit so just found the time to read some of the comments. so is it just the hotmail accounts that arent getting conformation? if so that wouldn't really make sense and i aint up for signing up for a new email account. but i do love this site and it deserves the award for sure...
it's soooo cool that it has no description there. It's like "come on, it's darkufo's blog, it doesnt need to be introduced"
I'm trying to cast more votes by creating differet accounts with my other email accounts and having trouble getting the email confirmation links. If this works I get the 3 needed votes to put Dark into the 4th place category. Seems gmail works the best for getting the confirmation emails quickly. I'll work on it a bit longer tonight before I got to bed.
I voted in every category! And I voted for SpoilerTv too!
The least I can do.
Thanks everyone, it's very kind of you to spend some time to vote. Much appreciated.
I voted some weeks ago in the "Best Entertainment" category, but now I've voted in the other too.
And look, now you're on 9th place on "Blog about stuff"
Thanks Choekass :) Be nice to make the top 3 for each :)
Ha! I made my father vote XD LOL
When does the vote close? I know we can at least reach the third place.
People, open a gmail account, is not a waste, you'll love it, and you won't have problems about confirmations or missing emails in the future ;)
BTW, my dad loves LOST too! ;D
When I try to sign up it has an error saying:
1 error prohibited this user from being saved
There were problems with the following fields:
* Captcha failed.
...and it's highlighting the name field. How come?
Oh wait, forget it, I realise what I did wrong.
Jamie, it happened to my dad. Remember to write exactly the Captcha thing, sometimes is not clear, but you can always refresh it for a new one until it's readable.
Jamielost said...
"Oh wait, forget it, I realise what I did wrong."
Cool :)
Done now and voted :D
Thanks for the tip about having a gmail account. I was finally able to vote today. Good Luck Dark, you definately deserve the win :)
ok, got my vote even for the other three nominations. Best of luck to you!
I voted for this blog...
Voted for you in all categories :)
Voted!
Keep up the great job!!!
Show your appreciation and vote!
Finally took the time to sign up and voted for you!
Thanks everyone, moving up the lists nicely now :)
Really appreciate it :)
Duly voted!!But by the time i voted you were in third on the pop culture blog!!So we have to turn it around:)
Hey dark, just voted for you in the categories i missed last time :D good luck mate!
Done. :)
Gotcha Dark ;)
nice, first :)