I woke up today to fanfare - it seems I have made the Communicate magazine top ten bloggers once more. Which is very nice (even if, being featured without any specific order, having been placed at number 10 is a bit iffy!).. .Still - I don't think the run down was complete. One blog was missing. Beirut Drive By Shooting has not been mentioned - hmmm, could it be it has been shot in a drive by shooting?
Before you say anything, YES, I am aware the blog has not been updated for some time (interestingly, some of the blogs in the top 10 are not very active as of late too), but - since Drive By was a contributor to Communicate having a full page to display materials and comments, wouldn't it have been common courtesy to include the blog with a wink to its author after the departure from the magazine and from frequent blogging due to personal reasons (I am in touch with the author of the blog, so I know what I am saying).
So today in order not to break the "rule of ten", Beirut/NTSC (and in no specific order) is ready to concede its place in the Communicate Book of Tens to someone more worthy - Beirut Drive By Shooting.
8 comments:
Beirut Drive-by is honored and humbled by your gesture. Thank you for this post :)
She does deserve it
Do you know who is the journalist behind these stats? I would like to show him/her how his/her stats are wrong.
Contact Vanessa at Communicate Levant. I am sure her contact details are on the masthead of the magazine.
It is not a "Top Ten", it's 10 blogs that Communicate Magazine like so there are no stats or scientific order. The blogs aren't also ranked, so figuring in number 10 as you said Tarek doesn't have any significance.
Congrats :)
Mabrouk ilna w elkon Samah! Congratulations for Toom Extra. I'd have kissed you but you smell of garlic! :)
Tarek, maybe you should make it past page 31 in the book of tens for next time. just as Beirut Drive by had a regular section in Communicate Levant, so is the case in the Book of Tens. (please check 10 really bad billboard ads) after page 31 :) just saying.
hi tarek,
this is vanessa from communicate levant magazine :). promise, the number ten slot was anything but intentional. As for Beirut Drive-By Shooting, we clearly recommend the blog as it had a regular section in the magazine. That being said, the very same book features a ten really bad billboards list by none other than Beirut Drive-by Shooting. she more than deserves it :).
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