The 2007 weblog awards were announced this weekend and, WOW!, serotoninrain didn’t win a thing!
I know you’re surprised, shocked, and dejected. Me too. I was really hoping for Most Likely to Underachieve. In fact, none of the blogs on my roll even got a mention!!! In further fact, I don’t read a single one of the award winners. Not one.
What I’m wondering is, and I hate to even raise a question like this but keep in mind that I’m only half serious: Isn’t the fact that weblog awards exist at all in indication that blogging has jumped the shark?
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November 12, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Julie
I already said that.
Oh yes, in a much longer way, but yes.
Shark jumping has commenced.
When blogs “go black” in support of the writers’ guild strike…we’ve jumped more than one shark.
November 13, 2007 at 12:05 am
Jeff
Just for fun, I searched to see if mine had been mentioned. Oh, the shock and horror of appearing absolutely nowhere!
November 13, 2007 at 11:05 am
beth
I read one regularly that was nominated (but didn’t win). But otherwise, yeah…no one I knew.
The thing that gets me is that many of these blogs seem to have…well…changed as their popularity grew. Kind of like the kid you knew in jr. high that lost a lot of weight over the summer between 8th and 9th grade and went from being really cool and nice to know in 8th grade to a total popularity hound and someone you just don’t even want to say hi to in 9th grade. I stopped reading several blogs when popularity went to their heads.
But that kind of sounds like the battle cry of the introverted geek…and well, hey, the shoe fits so nicely I have several pairs.
November 13, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Stephen
One of my other friends, Jerry, had a good article about the awards here. Of course he didn’t win either, and I imagine they would have told me if I’d won. I’m so heartbroken. (bwahahahahaha!)
November 13, 2007 at 7:50 pm
jvjannotti
None of the blogs I read have ever been nominated or won anything… at least none that I’m aware of. So I don’t have a frame of reference for judging the popularity effect. It wouldn’t surprise me at all, though.
November 13, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Jerry
Hi. I’m the Jerry that Stephen referred to.
Let’s face it: if you’re a Christian and your blog wins a popularity contest, your reaction ought to be hitting your knees so hard the floor yells ouch as you ask God where you’ve gone wrong in your writing. If you are actively talking about Jesus — not the hellfire and brimstone judgmental garbage, but the real deal about the living God — you are not going to be popular.
As an aside, a story Stephen knows is that my sports blogs are part of SportsBlogs Nation which is co-owned by Markos Zuniga, a/k/a Kos of Daily Kos. I’ve gotten more active respect from him and the other people at SBN for my faith than I have from other high-profile Christian bloggers who either won’t give me the time of day or throw temper tantrums in my direction for not worshiping at their feet because their hit total is ten to the fifth power higher than mine. Go figure.
November 13, 2007 at 8:30 pm
jvjannotti
Hi Jerry, welcome to the blog. Thanks for your comment.
The Daily Kos happens to be one of those blogs I don’t read, not for any other reason than… well, because I don’t read it.
I’m a blogging Christian but I don’t write a Christian Blog. Even so, I think your point about speaking out about your faith not necessarily getting you popularity points is a good one.
I myself am all about being popular. It’s the primary goal of my life. Or not.
November 14, 2007 at 9:39 am
Jeff
Guy Fawkes made it onto one of the list of finalists ….. I was glad for that.