Late again. Sorry. I’ve had my Mac back since around Noon. Logic board this time, again no charge. In terms of replacement cost, I’ve got about 60% of a new computer for free. The back side is that I’ve never had to live with component failure — nor with the fear of data loss. Until Sunday, I had never backed up a Macintosh in my life. Today I made plans to buy a TimeCapsule.

Anyway, there are 12 entries on the short list this week, out of a long list of 78 posts.

Vote for the People’s Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.

Ahem: Please don’t spam all your friends to come and vote for you. First, what we’re interested in is what is popular among people who would have been voting anyway. And second, I’ll eliminate you for cheating. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Voting runs through to 9 pm MST Wednesday this week. I’ll announce the winners of this week’s awards soon thereafter.

Here is this week’s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees:

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“Bonnie Erickson — MGIC Runs the Gauntlet
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“Carson Coots — How Local Should You Go? How Local Should You Go?“,
“Doug Quance — Proposed Solutions Worse The Proposed Solutions Are Going To Be Worse Than The Mortgage Crisis“,
“Jay Thompson — NAR and Social Media Why the NAR Needs a \”Social Media Director\”“,
“Jim Cronin — Blogging Etiquette Blogging Etiquette – The Blog Comment Policy – Do You Need One?“,
“Jim Cronin — Worrying About SEO Why Worrying About SEO Is Detrimental to Your Real Estate Blog“,
“Kris Berg — I’m too sexy for my blog. I’m too sexy for my blog.“,
“Michael Creel — The Perils of Being a Realtor The Perils of Being a Realtor“,
“Mike Farmer — Fundamental Solutions Folk Music, Blame and Fundamental Solutions“,
“Morgan Brown — Barack Obama’s Mortgage Reform Policy Barack Obama’s Mortgage Reform Policy“,
“Paul Chaney — Becoming a social media leper Becoming a social media leper… many marketers are missing the whole point!“,
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    Deadline for next week’s competition is Sunday at 12 Noon MST. You can nominate your own weblog entry or any post you admire here.

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