The competition opens

Hi, everybody! Welcome to Think It About Some More, a blog devoted to reviewing and constructively critiquing the Eurovision of blogging.

The competition has got off to a QUICK start...and all we can say is, This is going to get crazy, fast. Eighty bloggers all blogging at once -- who can keep up?

Well, we can -- that is, we THINK we can -- and we intend to provide comprehensive coverage of who's leading the hunt. Is it the guy who wrote an essay on European identity? The ones who wrote about EP elections? The ones who wrote about...Think About It itself?

No! It's Stephen Spillane who drew first blood with what's being referred to as the "cheesecake post" -- but we think it's an excellent strategy...playing the sex card. His score is 4.25 out of 5. And he drew 9 comments.

A lot of people have taken the tack of meta-blogging, writing a first-person impression of the fact that they are participating in Think About It. (We plan to write a reflective piece about what it feels like to write Think About It Some More -- wait for it!)

We like this approach. It's clever, for one -- for a second it has us wondering: is the blogger in the inside circle with the organizers? The tactic also confers an automatic authoritativeness. Take Muusa Kostilainen who asks, This is it, I’m going to Brussels, to the capital of Europe. It sounds as if I’m somebody important, doesn’t it? And I am.

We're wondering about voting and quantifying a competition such as this -- do the competitors vote against each other's blogs? It seems like they do. For example, who down-voted Andrei Tuch's highly readable if detailed and acronym-strewn post? He's pulled an average 3.0 out of 5, yet whoever was stingy didn't see fit to leave a comment.

Could (gasp) other bloggers be participating in the voting?