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right, Jenny would kick grammargirls ass :-)

Let's have her and Jenny fight it out to the finish, then we really see who is smooth... :P

It's no surprise Grammar Girl won. She was a lock for that category. Great format, tight podcasts, smooth scripting, catchy score, great voice... She researches all her answers, gives great information seemlessly on a boring subject and makes it interesting. She deserves the ever-growing audience she gets.

In less than a year she completely redefined the art of quality podcasting, and after her first year it continues to grow. A model for success in the 2.0 world.

;-)

Excuter, I want you to write a one page essay on why you should get the laptop DESK... oh, nevermind... ;-)

we have to get our neighbors and everyone we know to vote for cpod next time, and the laptop table shure will be ours ...er... cpods muhuahahahahahahahahahahahah...

;-)

Aww, darn! That's such a disappointment...I voted every day that I could while away. Will have to double my efforts next year!

Sorry but the podcast award systems have lost my trust.

I should have Dug out my dial up modem.

And voted for chinesepod 300+ votes a day!

I see iMandarinpod won a section

Double Shucks. They must have had a blog post with the subject "Vote for Grammar Girl" and had more than 100 replies (this is the 100th post here...woo!)

Or they had an automated script on zillions of computers to vote.

Whichever way they won(cheated!:), I gotta now eat my words somewhere around post #50... 不好吃！*sulk*

-R

Yea! Big dissapointment when I realized that Grammar girl had won but then I checked some of her podcasts and understand why. Nice and interesting (as Cpod).

ken,

only two of the prices are announced on Sept 28th, the rest are already given.

We'll try again next year :-)

Shucks.

Actually, I really like "Grammer Girl" because it is also excellent. I can see how it would receive lots of votes. You should try listening to it.

How could the "Grammar girl" win in Education???

"Grammar girl"??

I spoke to NBC the other day and they say it's on the way!

They don't know what to do with those ge-zillion votes for CPod!

How about the NBC　Ｎｉｇｈｔｌｙ　ｎｅｗｓ　ｂｒｏａｄｃａｓｔ？

It seems now that they won't announce the results until Sept 28th??? This is messy - they'd said previously they would announce it on the 15th August, now suddenly we gotta wait. What's going on over there?

grrr, my english is clumsy lately

desktop=laptop

It seems that the desktop table is difficult to pack.

+long

How does it take them to review votes?

They said some votes will be asked to be confirmed, but I received one email for each vote. Seems I am not very trustable for their system, hehe. Anyway, I religiously confirmed all of them.

Best of lucks today Cpod!

为成!

Winner is announced on Wednesday.

No more votes allowed, now wait until the results.

now all we can do is wait until the award comes to cpod :-)

will there be a special award lession ?

Fairly new to the site, but very impressed so far. +1 vote here.

+1 & verified 3.

Good luck?

How is everyone?

Last day of voting today (the 11th). I've got my vote in.

+1 vote.

12:05 pm

It's one vote per person per IP.

So on my home network

192.168.1.65 & 192.168.1.64

They don't count, because there addresses my router assigns locally .

Web sites see 86.135.140.172 as my IP, ON ALL COMPUTERS!!

Therefore if my siblings want to vote they have to use a Icafe, Otherwise Both votes could be removed, at the discretion of podcast connect .

everytime one votes it can be a different person so it´s better to check. (my and probably their thought´s) :-)

I get the confirmation e-mail every time, too. doesn't it make more sense that you should only have to verify once?

I get the confirmation e-mail every time. I wonder if it's related to being in China, or maybe because other people in the same IP range also voted...?

I tested their system for spam a few days ago..

with a disposable email address...

no spam from anyone, just one verification email.

I get lots of spam because my main email address is

bell818@isp.com. And mass email clients find it easy to Guess

For a while I was using a bogus email address because I don't like using my email address around the web (I do have an address for that, but it's all junk mail now), but then I realized it said some votes are verified through email, and sure enough, when I used my gmail account it sent me an email to verify EVERY time.. so I guess we lost a few votes from that. Hmph.

Well, okay, so maybe some other podcasts are doing well. I do make mistakes. 加油！

I have to confirm nearly every vote (the asking for the latest isn´t in ´till now :-) )

I have received many, I verify several at once, and the system processes them normally.

Because of high system loads on email servers

Never got one of those. I regularly checked.

I seems I always do and I'm not sure if I verified them all within 24 hours.

Do you guys get the confirmation emails as well? I guess the vote doesnt' count without those.

+1 @ 10:46 GMT.

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ｔｈｅｍ　＆　ｓｏｍｅ　ｏｆ　ｔｈｅｉｒ　ｆａｎ　ｂａｓｅ　ｖｏｔｉｎｇ　ｔｏｏ．

Ｂｕｔ　Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor won　２００５ & ２００６.

Gotta win keep voting .

You know, after voting 5 or 6 times (sorry, didn't get around to it every day), I finally bothered to even look at the sites ChinesePod is up against:

Astronomy Cast

Beer School

ChinesePod

Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor

Freedomain Radio

Grammar Girl

Hard Core History

Martin Bailey Photography Podcast

PediaCast

Rookie Designer

Ummm....do any of these come close to the need we Chinese learns need to have podcasts for? I mean, all due respect to photography and beer (I think they stole Ken's model to get as far nominated this list, that has to be it)... I mean, i would think a lot of photographers prefer to use books.... maybe listen to a podcast once in a while, but as something regularly? I can't think of a better "Education" reason to use podcasting other than for language learning, and other than Grammar Girl (checked it out but couldn't figure out who it was geared to... just English speakers interested in learning weird grammar rules/reasonings), I don't see such a site. Hopefully CP has nothing to worry about even without us voting more than once. (plus I don't think any of those could have the fan-base as we do here to get them to vote often)

CPod, 加油！

-Rich

We're entering the home stretch. Please keep voting, people...

2-3 more days of voting left! Don't stop...

+1*day

+1 vote.

+1 @ 10:35 格林尼治时间 :-)

Still going...

It's all appreciated, guys.

+1 @ 10.22 GMT

Eventually I could vote again. For two days or so this stupid site claimed I already voted "within the last 24 hours".

Going strong!

漏水意思什么

I voted! ChinesePod is great!

My wife taught me the word for this healthy strategy is

loushui - 漏水 (?)

--> "reply on a thread to move it to the top again.

As soon as somebody verifies this particular piece of vocab I will add it to the CPod Dictionary.

voted... now it's at the top again

+1 vote.

i wish i didn't have to verify my vote every time! What do you guys win besides a trophy, and it is a lovely trophy, a microphone or something?

Aye aye!

Great. Let's keep it going. Gotta win! Gotta win!

+1. :-)

thanks for reminding!

just voted

hehe have set a reminder for 5:05 am

voted.

我爱cpod to pieces!

got my vote...

i wanted to suggest new features but

you already have all the ideas i had thought of!

+1 给你

Mahjong game 'can cause epilepsy'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6931119.stm

Shame we can't see the number of votes so far, but I guess it would be as fair then.

just voted again (I don´t count how many times, I just vote ;-) ) :-)

Third vote from me, good luck CPod!

Well, since Ken doesn't seem interested in, nor seems to know what it is even after giving a link, the "laptop desk", it's just going to have to be a Movie Madness prize then, ...and Amber has to pay shipping...

It's a fine day for democracy.

A fine day for voting.

I voted!

I spend an hour a day listening to you and Jenny, so... of course you have my vote. I will vote once a day until the awards. xiexie

Just voted, fifth time.

I have no idea if people are voting or not... Are you???

Dang it. I got "hug a tree" marked off my todo list, but forgot to vote.

Who's voted today?

done!!!

:)

Done. By the way, John, I had enough of those types of "experiments" in college thank you very much.

喂喂喂喂lol +1, Chinesepod ROCKS

Don't forget to repeat the voting also!

Dave, Don't forget the key part: REPEAT. The experiment ends when you pass out.

"Take a native speaker and a foreigner (e.g. John or Dave), give them a short dialogue. Best served with a tongue twister. Let them drink half a liter beer each."

I'd like to volunteer for this one, Ken.....

Actually, it's not about the laptop desk (whatever that is). It's about the sheer glory, feeling the love of the community, and stuff like that! But, hey, a laptop desk (whatever that is) woudl be pretty ok, too!

I can keep my new Packard Bell laptop on my knees (while I´m sitting on my bed) for over an hour without problems, so I don´t need a desk for it. ;-)

Bazza,

not anymore.

Sometimes I see people folding up "laptops" in the train that easily span two seats and some. A notebook computer with a 19'' or 21'' monitor definately needs its own desk.

A laptop desk? Isn't that an oxymoron? ;)

Rich,

A laptop desk? I'll have a look.

Thx to all for the votes and please keep them coming.

Wait wait wait, before we vote any more, I think ChinesePod needs to write a 200 or less (or more) word essay on what they will do with a laptop desk, which is the prize for best Education podcast. :) Ken?

Hi guys, thanks for the vote! Hehe... got my vote in today as well (but I am honest to PodcastAwards.com and mention that I'm part of the team). :-)

got one from me!

+1 a day from me,

Feast0ff00ls (GLBT) (People Choice)

They are asking their listners to vote everyday, AND..

they say You can vote more by using a different computer, with a different IP address.

How messed up is that?

Chinesepod will always be the best podcast

i hope Chinesepod wins!!!

Add another vote to the list.

Voted again today.

Bazza! Quit making fun of how Floridia couldn't handle punching the right hole in the ballot during our last Presidential election.... oh wait, maybe you weren't. Sorry. I'm just sensative. ha ha.

+1 from me for the PodCastAwards.

Are there any lessons with tongue twisters in? I found a website a while ago with some on, there was one about ten stone lions being dead or something.

I'd had real problems trying to enunciate a new phrase to my chinese language partner. (I've duly forgotten what it was now but it had one of the xi, si, shi, or qi, sounds in it and I clearly couldn't get my teeth into it). As a punishment for laughing at me I thought I'd get him back by making him read tongue twisters...

It never happend in the end, but it made my think of my sisters elocution lessons, perhaps reciting tongue twisters along with Cpod dialogues might exercise those muscles we non-native speakers don't have. At least you might have fun imagining all the poddies spluttering impossible phrases while listening.

麦克

again? I thought once a day...

Ken,

that idea is pure gold. I love experimental shows.

To make it more concrete:

Take a native speaker and a foreigner (e.g. John or Dave), give them a short dialogue. Best served with a tongue twister.

Let them drink half a liter beer each.

Repeat.

Afterwards analyze the effects on:

- grammar

- tones

- overall sillyness

By the way: Voted again.

Voted! as requested :-)

Mike,

How did the beer get in there?

I wonder what lesson with Jenny and I would be like after a few beers... Just wondering!

The non-sober voters will probably click on the wrong radio button anyway and vote for ChinesePod as accident. ;)

Ken

Up against beer in the educational division. How much of the non-sober voting block do you estimate you get ?

Mike in Singapore

Done!

This is the new anchor of my life. Voting, voting and voting. Thanks all!

Voted. Now I've gotta set up one of those recurring things in Google Calendars to tell me to vote again tomorrow.

Done and done. I'll be back tomorrow.

Thx, Mark. I appreciate that.

It struck me that if you made a quick note here whenever you'd voted it would keep the thread on the top of the Conversations pile, thereby encouraging others to do so. I believe the thing will conclude in 15 days.

You got my vote.