As we said yesterday, if you pimp your nomination out in a major way and let us know about it, we’ll throw you a bone and let people know you’ve put forth the effort. Even though it in no way means we’re personally endorsing anyone in particular.
Now that we’ve made that clear, here’s the latest [...]

Okay, we admit it. While we could handle 1,000 votes an hour, 24,000 at once proved too much – but only briefly, and only because we were switching servers at the time. HARO readers, we fear you not!
LinuxJournal’s Shawn Powers and Wil Wheaton have joined the Michelle Malkin/Sara Benincasa hot blogger matchups with a standoff. [...]

Hee, I said “stuffing the ballot box.” Ahem. Sorry.
It’s hard to point you to Hot Blogger press, because if it’s by a nominee, then it does feel like saying hey, we endorse this person, vote for them. And we don’t mean that. Voting is totally unbiased. And that’s why we’ve got our “Press” section up [...]

Over 800 nominations. Over 150,000 hits. Love from Comedy Central. All of this in five days.
Clearly, there was a need for hot blogging to be recognized. We respect you for answering that need, and we are honored to be the vessel by which you do that.
Actually, that’s a lie. We’re terrified by the rabid ferocity [...]

When Sarah and I got the idea to put this contest together, I don’t think either of us had any clue just how massive of an undertaking it would turn out to be, or how fast the word would spread (although I should have known better).
I can only speak for myself here, of course, but [...]

Dawn, who designed this site and is keeping track of stats, has something to say to y’all:
Wow – as Jane said, the response to the Hot Blogger Calendar has been AMAZING!  We’ve had nearly 100,000 hits since Monday! We’ve had visitors from all over the globe, from the huge influx of us [...]

Well, the nomination phase has gotten off to an amazing start. Seriously, have you seen all of the Guys and Gals nominated?
We’ve promised not to tell who… but we’ve had lots of bloggers nominating themselves. And that’s cool because if you don’t love yourself, who’s gonna love ya baby?
And of course there are nominations coming [...]