March 29, 2007MVB Game time: Seeding, brackets and pairings announced.
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With the voting in and tallied, including two cheaters (who have been paired up against each other as punishment for trying to rock the vote and ultimately set up against Seth Godin), we are now ready to begin the big dance.
The full seedings are as follows and you can click on this thumbnail to view the complete brackets. 
More importantly, click here to vote on the 16 head-to-head match-ups. Once enough votes are in, I'll tabulate again and narrow the field down to the "Sweet 16" and so on and so forth.
fyi, David Armano, in a putrid ass-kissing way to influence his growing following put together this very smart post offering commentary and insight on the randomness of the MVB's and also the MSM angle associated with it. Don't let this MVB demonstration of thought leadership go unpunished!
- Jaffe v Seth Godin on the card if all goes according to seeding
- We're rooting for Where's the Sausage heads up against Eggs, Bacon, Chips & Beans!
Vote NOW
Seedings:
- Seth Godin - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
- Wired – http://blog.wired.com/
- Logic + Emotion - http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/
- Jaffe Juice - http://www.jaffejuice.com
- BrandAutopsy - http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/
- Russel Davies - http://russelldavies.typepad.com/
- Church of the Consumer - http://www.churchofthecustomer.com/blog/
- Beyond Madison Avenue - http://www.beyondmadisonavenue.com/
- Micro Persuasion - http://www.micropersuasion.com
- "Why Business People Speak Like Idiots" http://www.fightthebull.com/blog/
- Cool Hunting – http://www.coolhunting.com/
- Mark Cuban - http://www.blogmaverick.com/
- Branding Strategy Insider - http://www.brandingstrategyinsider.com/
- http://www.scottweisbrod.com/index.php/
- Gaping Void - http://www.gapingvoid.com/
- PSFK - http://www.psfk.com
- Creative Think - http://blog.creativethink.com/
- Radical Trust - http://www.radicaltrust.ca
- Adverlab – http://adverlab.blogspot.com/
- SpringWise - http://www.springwise.com/
- POW! Right Between The Eyes! http://powrightbetweentheeyes.typepad.com/
- Adliterate by Richard Huntington - http://www.adliterate.com/
- "Eggs Bacon Chips & Beans" - http://russelldavies.typepad.com/eggbaconchipsandbeans/
- Servant of Chaos - http://servantofchaos.typepad.com/
- Conversation Agent - http://conversationagent.typepad.com/
- Hello_World - http://missinglink.typepad.com/hello_world/
- Where's The Sausage - http://wheresthesausage.typepad.com/
- Modern Life is Rubbish - http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/
- NussbaumOnDesign - http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/index.html
- Pronet Advertising - http://www.pronetadvertising.com
- CK's Blog - http://www.ck-blog.com/
- Top Rank Blog - http://www.toprankblog.com
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Comments
LOL! Being called a putrid ass kisser may have been the best thing that's happened to me all day. Classic.
Posted by: david armano
Pairing me head-to-head with Seth? He's gonna kill me!
Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum
Bruce - why not pimp this in Business Week? ;)
Use your MSM clout already!
Posted by: jJ
Seriously Bruce, you should get out the next Edition of IN out early for this reason alone. :)
Posted by: David Armano
Joe,
Interesting project. I voted. The randomness that David Armano notes, or the ranking of blog popularity sans Technorati, is key. I was at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media this week, a technical conference for social-media research, and read an interesting paper about how blog traffic doesn't correlate with inbound links. I realize this is a little off the intended game, but I figured as a good a place as any to bring to your attention: http://www.attentionmax.com/blog/2007/03/inbound_links_dont_necessarily_correlate_with_blog_popularity.php
Cheers,
Max
Posted by: Max Kalehoff
I feel like I am in a Rocky movie.
But I am not Rocky.
;-)
Posted by: collin
I think this is a wonderfully fun idea! Nice going.
BTW: I voted for you Bruce Nussbaum just on the basis of your recent post about "Designers being the death of design."
Best wishes to all.
Posted by: Roger von Oech
you can get the winning brackets posted here!
Posted by: Nick
Sorry, here http://www.dailybracket.com/
Posted by: Nick
Well gee, thanks a million for pitching my poor old little Sausage against the might of Jackie and Ben at Church of the Customer...I'm dead meat...what happened to seeding my with Russel's part-time, second-string egg, bacon, chips blog?
Posted by: David Taylor (from Where'sTheSausage)
Joseph, this is a blast. I haven't had this much fun since I tried to import a photo that exceeded Typepad's space limits.
As I asked yesterday in my well-read-but-could-always-use-more-traffic blog, what does the winner get? Is there some sort of tangible trophy/prize/gift certificate/that could become this event's annual Holy Grail, a chalice that we could raise highly above our heads and howl about?
If you could come up with an idea and it's not too bank-breaking, I'd agree to finance it...as long as we can name it the "Andy Nulman Got Killed In The First Round Memorial"...or something else that rolls off the tongue equally as succinctly.
My best to the rest of y'all. Have mercy!
--Andy
Posted by: Andy Nulman
Being paired up with John Moore, wow! We were both guests of a RadioBlogTalk show recently -- I have great respect for his ideas and am honored to be listed in the same pair. Down I go. Yeah, Armano plays to the heartstrings, he's so good, it's unfair ;-)
Posted by: Valeria Maltoni
Lucky us. We're heading right for the Seth Godin buzz saw. Wait. We have powerful widgets and a secret weapon on April 1st.
Too many great blogs! Well done Joe!
Derrick
Posted by: Derrick Daye
Oy. Just looked at the brackets.
Maybe it's desperation, or perhaps the three beers I had at lunch, but if by some miracle I get by the first round, I promise--threaten?--to pose completely naked on my site, strategically covered ONLY by Seth Godin books. (Call it "Radical Transparency," or as Wired exclaims on this month's cover: "Get Naked and Rule The World; Why Exposing Yourself is the Future of Business.")
And now, off to search for something that demonstrates consistent strategic thought leadership.
Posted by: Andy Nulman
Andy's consistent strategic thought leadership has my vote. Is this called "leadership in the raw"?
Posted by: Gavin Heaton
Great idea to get great ideas out to where the should be - in other people's minds.
The survey site (surveymonkey.com) didn't give me a "thanks for taking our survey" page. So either it timed out the first time or I might have double voted (I did the survey again). Sheesh.
Posted by: Diana
