{"id":2235,"date":"2007-11-18T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T19:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2007-11-18T11:33:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T18:33:54","slug":"the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2235\/the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eighteen nominees this week. I had a bunch of posts from Active Rain, and, while I didn’t pick any this week for the short list, I’d like to encourage y’all to continue to enter. There is some good stuff over there that I would not see otherwise.<\/p>\n

Vote for the People’s Choice Award here<\/a>. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.<\/p>\n

Voting runs through to 12 Noon MST Monday. I’ll announce the winners of this week’s awards soon thereafter.<\/p>\n

Here is this week’s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees:<\/p>\n

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