Pruning and polling

It’s spring cleaning a couple months early. Actually, we got outside to enjoy the nice weather and took down the tree and Christmas decorations.

You might notice I’ve taken down a few links. I have a (somewhat flexible) policy of linking to sites which are regularly updated, but after they go about three months without a post I delete the link. I figure it doesn’t do either of us good to link to what is essentially a dead site. But if you have a site you think I should link to, let me know and I’ll review it to see which category it will fit into. Who knows, maybe I’ll make up a few new ones while I’m at it.

The other update I wanted to add this afternoon was that I’ll begin the semifinal rounds of my Best Local Blog poll sometime this evening. I actually had a tie in one round so I decided to add two wildcards; those two were the highest second-place finishers. So the seeding for the semifinals is set:

  1. Delmar DustPan (367 votes, won round 4)
  2. Right Coast Conservative (143 votes, won round 1)
  3. Sussex County Angel (23 votes, won round 3)
  4. Delmarva Progressive (20 votes, won round 6)
  5. afterthegoldrush (15 votes, won round 2)
  6. A Chesapeake Journal (4 votes, tied for win in round 5)
  7. Random Thoughts of a Citymouse (4 votes, tied for win in round 5)
  8. The Other Salisbury News (162 votes, second in round 4)
  9. Delmarva Shorebirds Blog (66 votes, second in round 1)

So I have the matchups set to be as evenly seeded as possible; as I said they’ll commence later tonight or tomorrow. As it lays out one of these battles will feature a rematch of the opening round with a new opponent tossed in.

And this time it will be win or go home, as each of the three winners advances. So bloggers better round up their troops and make sure to enlist their support!