By: AV Flox
The Internet Will Not Make Up For What Happened To You In High School, says the popular shirt and you’d think by now we would have given up the nonsense. But after a summer filled with malwebolence and hazing from the New York Times Magazine to BoingBoing, the denizens of the blogosphere are ready for more teen drama, this time in the form of a popularity contest called the Hot Blogger Calendar.
“It’s all Playboy’s fault,” says Jane Porricelli of MomGenerations.com and founder of the phenomenon, referencing the magazine’s list of the web’s hottest chicks.
A believer in equal opportunity, Porricelli wanted to cast the spotlight on hot male bloggers. The contest, which she ran on her personal blog, was picked up and promptly torn to shreds by Gawker, who didn’t have a single nominee on the shortlist. The resulting surge of interest got the attention of Sarah Morgan, media dilettante and PR maven, who quickly suggested they redo the contest, this time on a massive scale and for both genders.
Come August 31, twenty-four winners will be invited to New York for a photo shoot party. Their pictures will appear in Hot Blogger Guys and Hot Blogger Gals 2009 calendars.
As of Friday afternoon, there were 523 nominations and of these, Porricelli tells me some 50 were self-nominated! As of Monday morning, nominations are capped at 800. It’s voting time and bloggers are getting desperate—they’re bribing readers with everything they can think of to get on this calendar.
Comedienne, blogger and Sirius Cosmo Radio host Sara Benincasa appeared on Comedy Central’s Indecision ‘08 after launching what could be the best campaign strategy to date: promising and girl-on-girl calendar action with fellow Hot Blogger nominee, the conservative pundit and blogger Michelle Malkin.
Not that I care or anything because this stuff is so beneath all of us, etc., but vote for me and I’ll make that a threesome.
