Showing posts with label #jablogawards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #jablogawards. Show all posts

December 21, 2011

Vote For Geoffrey Philp’s Blog @ Jamaica Blog Awards



For the second year in a row, my blog has been nominated in the Best Overseas Blog category of the Jamaica Blog Awards. Give thanks!


Since I began using Google Analytics on Monday, October 26, 2006, this site has had over 500,000 visitors from 217 locations:




The white areas represent locations where I've recorded only one visitor. Not to worry, Pinky. Tomorrow the world!


Readers have come from as far away as Tajikstan and as near as Hialeah, yet the top ten locations have remained stable:


1. United States: 141,604
2. Jamaica: 23,034
3. United Kingdom: 17,856
4. Canada: 15,880
5. Trinidad and Tobago: 11,142
6. India: 10,552
7. Philippines: 8,206
8. France: 8,042
9. China: 7,512
10. Germany: 5,132


Many of the readers are students seeking information about writers such as Mervyn Morris, Dennis Scott, Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Vic Reid, and Olive Senior. 


Others are looking for posts about Bob Marley, Marcus Garvey, and Rastafari. And still others search for information about writing, contests, and conferences.


For 2011, the top twenty posts followed the usual pattern with a two big surprises: "Have a Marcus Christmas and New Year" with 1366 hits and "Jamaica is One Love": with 513 hits.
 
Here, then, is the roundup of my top twenty posts for 2011:



1. "Meanings of Bob Marley's Songs": 4744 hits
2. "'Epitaph' by Dennis Scott: An Appreciation": 3401 hits
3. "'Colonial Girls' School' by Olive Senior: An Appreciation": 2696 hits
4. "Little Boy Crying" by Mervyn Morris: An Appreciation": 1726 hits
5. "Have a Marcus Christmas and New Year": 1366 hits
6. "'I Shot the Sheriff': A Fable of Freedom" : 1278 hits
7. "Happy Birthday, Marcus Garvey": 1179 hits
8. "Top Ten Things Every Writer Should Know": 1170 hits
9. "What Can Bob Marley Teach Bloggers?": 938 hits
10. "About Geoffrey Philp's Blog": 921 hits
11. "In My Own Words: Andrea Elizabeth Shaw": 749 hits
12. "A Rubric for Poetry?" :730 hits
13. "Bob Marley: Making of a Legend": 722 hits
14. "Happy Birthday, VS Reid": 547 hits
15. "Jamaica is One Love": 513 hits
16. "Obama Rejects Plea for Marcus Garvey": 511 hits
17. "Polyglot Writers": 425 hits
18. "'Marrysong' by Dennis Scott": 409 hits
19. "'Mass Man' by Derek Walcott: An Appreciation": 381
20. "Broward Coronation Film Festival": 380 hits 


If you have enjoyed reading any of these posts, please follow this link to vote for my blog in the category: Best Overseas Jamaica Blog:



The voting ends on January 2, 2012, so as we say in Miami: "Vote early and Vote Often."

January 7, 2011

Kwame Dawes @ PBS NewsHour: Haiti's Earthquake



KWAME DAWES: And this is the thing about it. You know, I'm not your standard, at least as far as I know, journalist. I don't go to do sort of immediate news stories.


I really want to meet people. I want to find out how they're living. And, really, what ends up happening is that I become very friendly. I become a friend. I become somebody who is just interested in their stories and their lives.


And I can't -- I cannot avoid a good story. You know, a good narrative tells me there's a poem here or there's an image that is going to emerge out of it. And I would listen to people's stories and walk away. And, at night, I would be thinking about it, and maybe an image would come back to me, and I will find a way to turn that into poetry.


For more, please follow this link: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june11/kwamedawes_01-04.html

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January 4, 2011

Jamaica Blog Awards: Top Five: Best Overseas Blog



I’ve made it to the Top 5 in the Jamaica Blog Awards: Best Overseas Blog. I would be lying if I didn’t say I was happy. Winning is good.

I hate to admit it, but I know I haven’t achieved the equanimity that my aunt, who I mentioned in My Jamaica: Part Two, once advised when she quoted Rudyard Kipling’s “If…”: "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/And treat those two impostors just the same… Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, /And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!” I'm getting there, Aunt Evritt

I also know I couldn’t have made it this far without the support of readers like you who have voted, Twittered, and shared on Facebook. So, thank you, my friends, for your help.

But the contest isn’t over. Once again, I am calling for your assistance to make it to the finals on January 11, 2001, and the BIG REVEAL on January 16, 2011 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.

VOTE HERE:

Remember, you can vote every 24 hours.



Jamaica Blog AwardsAll Voting ends Friday January 14, 2011 (mid-day)


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December 28, 2010

Jamaica Blog Awards: We got badges!




I know what some of you are thinking: "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"

So,vote for me & "Shoot the Sheriff...not the deputy."

Or if you prefer Bob Dylan:

"Mama, take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore.
It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door."

Either way, here's the link to vote for me:

http://jamaicablogawards.com/geoffrey-philip/

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December 22, 2010

Vote for Geoffrey Philp's Blog: Jamaica Blog Awards

Jamaica Blog Awards



Geoffrey Philp's Blog has been nominated in the Best Overseas Blog for the Jamaica Blog Awards. Give thanks to Corve DaCosta for organizing the contest and for highlighting the Jamaican talent within the blogosphere.


To vote for my blog, please follow this link to the category: Best Overseas Blog:

Voting ends @ noon January 3, 2011.

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