PhillySpeak.com: Canada Geese, Homeless, Fairmount Park Phila. Sub-urban:

...We as Philadelphians have to step up and do better. I know we were doing pretty well, and the mayor has been praised for his efforts toward helping Matthew, Mary, John, Catherine, and our other outdoor living neighbors.

But like our overly generous sub-urban do gooders, we, too, can have a double win. We can feed our own homeless and reduce the pesky Canadian Geese population destroying Fairmount Park river banks. It just makes sense."

Philly Future is pleased to introduce Support Your Local Gunfighter, written by a Philadelphia police detective, under the alias "Wyatt Earp", as your latest Featured Blog.

We hope you visit the other nominees A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago and Lehigh Valley Ramblings.

We also encourage you to join the Philly Featured Blog Storm by highlighting Support Your Local Gunfighter on your own blog, as several Philly Futurists have done for past Featured Blogs.

Thanks as always to our most recent Featured Blog alum, Fact-esque -- we encourage you to add Support Your Local Gunfighter and Fact-esque to your blogroll.

Note: If you do post about Support Your Local Gunfighter on your site in the next two weeks, make sure to tag your post with the phillyfeaturedblog tag by adding the following HTML:
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/phillyfeaturedblog" rel="tag">phillyfeaturedblog</a>

Not enough Featured Blogging for ya? Click here for the latest headlines from Featured Blogs past and present.

Expect the winner to be announced tomorrow morning. Of course, if you click around here, you will have a good idea who is our new Featured Blog :)

Vote now for the latest blog to be featured on Philly Future. Voting will be closed 10 PM tonight. Note the short voting window.

Your nominees:

A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Lehigh Valley Ramblings

You can place your vote here.

Update - voting is now closed.

It's your chance to shape the next Featured Blog poll. Comment with your nominations through 3 p.m. Friday. (Basic rules below the break)

It's your chance to shape the next Featured Blog poll. Comment with your nominations through 3 p.m. Friday. (Basic rules below the break)

Philly Future is pleased to introduce Fact-esque as our latest Featured Blog.

We hope you visit the other nominees Antonella Pavese and Trouble With Spikol.

We also encourage you to join the Philly Featured Blog Storm by highlighting Fact-eque on your own blog, as several Philly Futurists have done for past Featured Blogs.

Thanks as always to our most recent Featured Blog alum, Civil Defense -- we encourage you to add Fact-esque and Civil Defense to your blogroll.

Note: If you do post about Fact-esque on your site in the next two weeks, make sure to tag your post with the phillyfeaturedblog tag by adding the following HTML:
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Not enough Featured Blogging for ya? Click here for the latest headlines from Featured Blogs past and present.

Comment with your nominations through 3 p.m. Friday. Left wing, right wing or no wings at all - it doesn't much matter, as long as you observe the rules below.

We're pleased to announce the latest Featured Blog poll winner, Civil Defense.

Civil Defense is the work of Joshua Breitbart, a Brooklyn native who resides in Philadelphia and is something of a community media guru. Whether he's reporting on subjects like net neutrality or the proposed pricing for Wireless Philadelphia service, his thoughts on media and modern communications are useful to anyone wanting to understand what's going on beneath the surfaces only people like Josh are willing to scratch.

We also encourage you to join the Philly Featured Blog Storm by highlighting Civil Defense on your own blog, as several Philly Futurists have done for past Featured Blogs. Thanks as always to our most recent Featured Blog alum, I've Made a Huge Tiny Mistake -- we encourage you to add Huge Tiny Mistake and Civil Defense to your blogroll.

Note: If you do post about Civil Defense on your site in the next two weeks, make sure to tag your post with the phillyfeaturedblog tag by adding the following HTML:

<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/phillyfeaturedblog" rel="tag">phillyfeaturedblog</a>

Not enough Featured Blogging for ya? Click here for the latest headlines from Featured Blogs past and present.

UPDATE: The nominations are closed. Click here for the poll.

This is the part where you get to shape the upcoming Featured Blog poll. Comment with your nominations through 3 p.m. Friday. (Read on for more detailed intructions.)

With the worthy distraction of Missing Monday, our regular bi-weekly introduction to a new Featured Blog may have gotten pushed back a couple days, but we certainly didn't forget about our latest winner, I've Made a Huge Tiny Mistake.

The musings of a lifelong Philadelphian, Huge Tiny Mistake regularly focuses on half of the major sports franchises (Sixers and Phillies, in their respective seasons), as well as other entertainment-related items. Please be sure to visit, and don't be shy about taking part in the discourse of the day.

We also encourage you to join the Philly Featured Blog Storm by highlighting I've Made a Huge Tiny Mistake on your own blog, as several Philly Futurists did for our latest Featured Blog alum, Welcome to Phillyville. And while you're add it, why not add both sites to your blogroll?

Note: If you help highlight the current Featured Blog on your site, make sure to tag your post with the phillyfeaturedblog tag by adding the following HTML:

<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/phillyfeaturedblog" rel="tag">phillyfeaturedblog</a>

Want more Featured Blogging? Click here for the latest headlines from Featured Blogs past and present.

Huge Tiny Mistake

Likely on purpose, ESPN.com’s front page highlighted the race for MVP, and delcared it a two man race:

• Howard blasts Nos. 50, 51, 52 | Pujols hits 3, too

The juxtaposition does not go unnoticed here. I also see it as a two man race at first glance, with Pujols having the lead in the rate stats(AVG/OBP/SLG/OPS) and Howard having the edge in the counting stats(hits, HR, RBI). Though RBI is fairly team-dependent, it still makes baseball writers’ heart go a-fluttering.

Now, who’s better? Who’s more valuable? Here’s their standards lines:

UPDATE: The poll can be found here.

Now's your chance to shape the next Featured Blog poll. Comment with your nominations through 3 p.m. Friday. (Read on for more intructions.)

Add the following HTML to your posts related to joining the latest Philly Featured Blog Storm and we should be able to pull in your participation here at Philly Future automatically:

<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/phillyfeaturedblog" rel="tag">phillyfeaturedblog</a>

Long term, we're going to build a widget you can add to your site that displays the latest blogs joining in.

This widget will be a prototype of one I've been meaning to build for a long time now - the Missing Monday widget.

Integrating Technorati services with the participation of this community, to provide unique views into the discussion taking place here, should really open things up, and provide some interesting ways of sharing the conversation.

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