Special to The Tribune
PORT ISABEL, Texas - A jury of noted media professionals journeyed here from across Texas to begin a weeklong study of Rio Grande Valley blogs. Meeting at the Port Isabel Yacht Club, the group of twenty-two judges expects to render its Top Blog verdict by week's end, said Paul Harasim, a well-known journalist from Houston who is chairing the group.
In the running for the title are this blog - The Tribune - and two rowdy Blogs from Harlingen, MyHarlingenNews.com and MyLeaderNews.com, along with the fourth finalist, ElRocinante.com of Brownsville. In the Second Banana category are the blogs, ElRrunRun and BrownsvilleVoice.
"We've got a long week ahead of us," said Harasim as he sat at the hotel's bar with fellow judges Steve Solo-Olafson, a former Houston Chronicle reporter, and Diane Freeman, formerly of The Houston Post. "We're poring over archives of all the involved Blogs and keeping an eye on what they're doing this week. So far, it's a toss-up as to who will win the big award."
The Tribune is the youngest of the group. Harasim characterized it as "a valuable resource for any community. Its seriousness of purpose is obvious." About MyHarlingenNews.com, Harasim said, "It is a feisty Blog interested in hitting after the bell has sounded to end a round." About MyLeaderNews.com, he said, "I see a lot of baseball on there, so that may hurt it in the end." As for El Rocinante, Harasim went on at-length before saying, "It sucks the air out of you with all that porno, but the blogs's central message, its raison d'etre, is the stuff of free speech, a winner in most media relevance contests."
El Rrun Rrun, a neighborhood news-driven blog, is seen as slightly ahead of BrownsvilleVoice.com, mainly, said Judge Solo-Olafson, "because I detect a clear whiney tone to BV's content, while El Rrun Rrun, perhaps the absolutely worst name I have ever seen for a blog, banks on detail many would say is boring when looked-at by the entire community. The fact that it is too Pro-Brown, Hispanic, keeps it from competing for the main award."
An awards banquet sponsored by The Tribune is planned for mid-August at the Havana Club in McAllen...
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4 comments:
They are all Wonderful blogs, giving us the editors, journalists , readers and the rest... a chance to use our civil rigth of Freedom of speech and expression.
Good Luck, to all the blogs, my favorites are: The Tribune, Myharlingennews and El Roci, if they just did away with some of the Porn, it would be better, but oh well, el roci, is just el roci.
May the best one win!!!
Is there a third rotten banana category for the following wannabe bloggers:
1. Aim low and you'll never be disappointed
2. blogginallthingsbrownsville
3. Cafe Brownsville
4. Merovingian
5. Nunnayerbizness
El Chris
EL CHRIS (What's with the "El?" Are you Egyptian?): Those Blogs are too insignificant and, if we had such a category, would like fall under the 'Best Washerwoman Blog' category.... - Editor
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