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CapeCodToday's Peter Kenney nominated for a Best of the Blogs award

10/24/07 · 7:12 am :: posted by editor     

Bring on the BOBs
The Great Gadfly garners a nod

bobs_100It was announced Tuesday, that CapeCodToday's own Peter Kenney was nominated for a Best of the Blogs (BOB) award for his Great Gadfly blog.  The BOBs is an annual blog competition sponsored by Deutsche Welle, an international broadcaster of German news and radio.  In its third year, the BOBs is the biggest blog competition in the world.

peter140_178BOBs are awarded for the best blog as well as other categories including best podcast and best videoblog among others.  Top honors will be awarded to the best blog in each of  ten language categories including English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.  Mr. Kenney has been nominated in the English category.

Blogs were submitted by users and if approved by BOBs editors were added to the BOBs site in the appropriate language category.  Bloggers who focus on current affairs and trends are given special attention.  Over 7,000 blogs and podcasts were submitted.

According to the website, the BOBs have "entered the final stretch" with November 15th being the last day to vote.  The jury, made up of fifteen international, independent journalists, media experts and blog experts has chosen a "short list" of 150 nominees in 15 categories.  When creating the short list, the jury took into account prose, creativity, design and user friendliness.

Peter in the Top Ten for voting 

Cast your votes here for Peter before the November 15th deadline.The Great Gadfly made the Top Ten English cut along with other blogs such as Metaversed, TPM Muckracker and Valour-IT.  See the list of all nominees here.  The winners will be announced on November 15th at an awards ceremony in Berlin.  In addition to their BOBs, winners will be awarded a laptop, an iRadio and a multimedia player.

As the Great Gadfly, Kenney investigates and comments on the workings of Cape Cod town and county government.  See his blog on CapeCodToday here as well as his other blog, Wampagate here, where he reports on the Wampanoag of Mashpee and their efforts to build the Commonwealth's first casino.

The editors and publishers of CapeCodToday wish to extend our congratulations to Peter on his nomination and we encourage CapeCodToday and Peter's readers to cast their votes before the November 15th deadline.

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10/24/07 @ 8:20 am
aurora [Member] writes:
I dunno...think I'm gonna vote for the 'Hillbilly White Trash' blog. JK, course I'll vote for you, Peter. Good luck!
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10/24/07 @ 8:31 am
washiki [Member] writes:
The Great Gadfly is the public persona of Peter Kenney, an American who is harnessing all of his energy and wit to among other things stop a local Indian Tribe from opening a casino near his home.....then why is his blog presented as news and taken as Gospel?
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10/24/07 @ 8:34 am
weary [Member] writes:
monponsett, please belt out a gospel tune for washiki...something, something, rez, welfare, section 8 housing, cape verdean, something, something, wamp-card in wallet, federal scam...something like that...
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10/24/07 @ 8:55 am
Monponsett [Member] writes:
You want an agnostic choir member?

Good luck, Peter.
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10/24/07 @ 9:02 am
Monponsett [Member] writes:
Little known but true fact... in 2004, I won the first world-wide public blog contest. I got a trip to Houston, $500, a tshirt, and a hat. During that same contest...by accident... I also did the first mass-promoted Liveblogging.

Then Walter gives my SE title to some guy hanging around a high school with a camera...but I'm not bitter.
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10/24/07 @ 9:07 am
sophia [Member] writes:
lmao....crusader-needs-to-get-diddled is trying to get filletofsole and weary booted....where's maverick when you need an old sea captain in a hot tub....haha
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10/24/07 @ 9:20 am
Monponsett [Member] writes:
Just voted for Peter...he's in the middle of the Best English Weblog pack.
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10/24/07 @ 9:28 am
crusader [Member] writes:
we'll see who has the last laugh after Bob George gets through with your freaks and losers......
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10/24/07 @ 9:35 am
Monponsett [Member] writes:
who?
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10/24/07 @ 9:58 am
susan [Member] writes:
Best wishes Peter !
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10/24/07 @ 10:37 am
editor [Member] writes:
Commenters are reminded to refrain from personal attacks and/or comments against the blogger or other commenters. Should such attacks/comments continue, commenting for this post will be closed.

Also, kindly remain on the topic at hand.

- the Editors
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10/24/07 @ 10:43 am
bostonian [Member] writes:
Vote for Peter!
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10/25/07 @ 5:11 pm
capecrusader [Member] writes:
someone needs to research Mr Kennys history... like his lack of financial support of his children.
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10/25/07 @ 8:55 pm
Jeff [Member] writes:
Goodness gracious, must be a full moon. As for his family dyanmic and how that relates to the news, the only thing I can imagine is there is nothing left to attack but the messenger, which, if I were a South African billionaire who had invested $15 million in a Bermuda Triangle running between the Kennedy Compound, Mashpee and the Motor City, I probably would, too...
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10/26/07 @ 8:49 am
crusader [Member] writes:
just an FYI....person who calls themselves "capecrusader"....is not me....

The Cape Cod Crusader....there is only one of course....

why can't people be original?
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10/26/07 @ 12:21 pm
capecrusader [Member] writes:
excuse me?? I didnt copy your name I use this name on other sites..(unmentionable here) get over yourself you clown.

Instead of you all saying what a wonderful person Kenney is look at his personal record and you will be surprised.
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10/30/07 @ 4:49 pm
Peter Kenney [Member] writes:
Capecrusader

Swing away, Just be sure you have all the facts. It is obvious you have never seen the court record or spoken with me or my attorney. Let me guess the source of your information. If this is really important for you to know, ask Walter how to reach me; I would be glad to share the whole story with you, but I will not do it here. There are innocents involved...four children who did not ask to be thrown into the mess of their extended family. Obviously you have no problem embarrassing them globally.

Keep up the good work and as soon as you cross the line into defamation I will back-check to your IP location and then we will both get a chance to talk about this in court. I hope you have assets and a good income; do you have a conscience? I cannot speak of this publicly because of a court order from 1997...the same one that commands everyone else not to speak. Clearly someone has not seen fit to follow this order. If you are a member of a certain family you are subject to the order and any violation of it could land you in a contempt-of-court situation.
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10/30/07 @ 7:46 pm
bittersweet [Member] writes:
Whoa Whoa Whoa...mentioning sex between children and a grown man must then be grounds for defamation too. How about all those who suggested crusader and I had sex with CM and each other? Is that defamation too?
Wow...there were a lot of people who said that. Damn. Good thing I'm not a vindictve type, but you know, things can always change.
I'll be watching Peter. If you charge, I will too.
Because all of what they said was a lie. And that's provable beyond a doubt.
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10/30/07 @ 8:02 pm
Buzz [Member] writes:
bittersweet,

You're kidding....right?
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10/30/07 @ 8:09 pm
legaleagle1 [Member] writes:
Peter, you are in great company.
Remember."If they stop attacking the messenger, they might have to discuss the issues" (cctoday 7/26/07)
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10/30/07 @ 10:08 pm
rapunzal2007 [Member] writes:
Peter you are #1 in my book. You kick @ss "o)
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11/02/07 @ 3:41 pm
coloredguy [Member] writes:
Hey rapunzal2007, you so right! Petey needs his @ss kicked and you need ta let ya hair down so that Petey can climb up and save ya from dat Euphoria you are experiencing! Maybe ya both need ya @sses kicked! Bittersweet was sleeping with GM, dats why they had a fewd...she wanted more and he said no! C'mon Paula!
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