Blog Of The Day!

We won the blog of the day award! Keep watching for more awards like this in the future. Yea, Metazoica!!! Yea to those who made this possible too!

Here's a visual of our award:

And the bouquet:

For me and Metalraptor, a bit of celebratory bubbly:

Comments

  1. MetalraptorMarch 7, 2009 at 12:58 PM

    I think we might actually be the only Speculative Evolution blog to ever win an award, believe it or not (sites like Darren Naish's excellent Tetrapod Zoology don't count, as he only does Spec work once in a blue moon). But still, yay!

    And I've also been noticing that ever since the site got "blog of the day" our hit counter has spiked up, up, up! Thanks to all of you that have visited Metazoica, and I hope you will stay tuned in the future.

    Back to big bad birds for me though...and dinosaurian pimps.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 7, 2009 at 3:48 PM

    Hey man, save me some of that bubbly!

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  3. MetalraptorMarch 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM

    You can have mine, I'm not old enough to drink, and after I found out what alcohol is made of, I don't think I ever will.

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  4. Dee TimmyHutchFanMarch 7, 2009 at 6:47 PM

    OK, then let's make it grape juice. LOL! I'm no drinker either, but you know how it is when you win an award.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM

    But remember, my young padawan - this prize is referred only to the present moment, but not to the next one.
    In other words I wish your blog to maintain the reputation by posting of new interesting articles, not only about tetrapods, but also about fishes and invertebrates. Sometimes the mode of life or the evolutional path may give an interesting idea of futuro-, xeno-, or parallel animal.

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  6. Dee TimmyHutchFanMarch 9, 2009 at 5:32 PM

    Just keep watching here Paul. There will be plenty more. In fact I have decided to keep this blog clean by not even responding to those who are trying hard to elicit a negative response from me. I don't want to turn this blog into what they turned that forum into. :)

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  7. MetalraptorMarch 9, 2009 at 7:49 PM

    Wow, of all the people in the world Paul, I would have never pegged you as a Star Wars fan.

    Anyway, I am not letting the success get to my head. After all, I'm not exactly sure how many people visit this blog daily, though I have noticed the numbers are going up ever since we recieved the award. But I really don't think we have any daily visitors other than you, Katrina, and Canis.

    I am surprised that no one has commented on my cats essay. I really wish to know how well I did on my first "actual" post. But anyway, hopefully the birds one will be better.

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  8. Dee TimmyHutchFanMarch 9, 2009 at 11:11 PM

    I'll tell you you did well Metalraptor. My stats show though the most popular post is the Future of Cryptid Beasts post I made on here some time ago. Most of today's viewers were referred by the Blog of the Day awards.

    Don't get discouraged because no one comments on your posts. Most people are just in to browse, some think that they cannot comment even though I also allow anonymous comments, some just have nothing to say. I just take it that way. But at least you know people are looking in.

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