Comments on: Matters bloggy

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:57:41 +0000

I’ll have to speak up for Pam’s House Blend in that category. There are a few real dogs in that competition though, I have to say.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:20:41 +0000

Agreed, Rob.

A friend of mine referred earlier over drinks to the nominations in the “best midsized lesbian blog” category – but I now see she was being a tad facetious.

But if anyone is thinking of voting in the “Best LGBT Blog” stakes, I recommend “This Girl Called Automatic Win”:

http://marielynbernard.blogspot.com/

Also, the author is one of my Facebook friends. Expession of solidarity, etc.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:09:53 +0000

The nominations in almost all of the categories are… weird.

By: Idiot/Savant

Idiot/Savant — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:42:47 +0000

What does it say about me that I only recognised one blog in “Best Aus & NZ”?

Meanwhile, I’m wondering why they called it “Best Aus & NZ” when all finalists come from only one of the countries listed.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:45:01 +0000

I recognised two!

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:45:20 +0000

What does it say about me that I only recognised one blog in “Best Aus & NZ”?

By: Jack R

Jack R — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:12:28 +0000

…was a blog.

Geez. Wot price that goddamned preview button, Leppy?

By: Jack Robertson

Jack Robertson — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:10:34 +0000

“…when I was still operating Hot Buttered Death…”

Ah, now there

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:50:32 +0000

True. I used the term louchely loosely but even though the map is not the territory I personally still see all this online blogstuff as a shapeless, protoplasmic and often Lovecraftian biomass.

“My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to think the greater part of it a mere dream; but sometimes in the autumn, about two in the morning when winds and animals howl dismally, there comes from inconceivable depths below a damnable suggestions of rhythmical throbbing …”

Opps ,that was my neighbours complaining about me playing R L Burnside loudly at this hour.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:30:19 +0000

Well, Nabs, I think the other thing going on here is that “the blogosphere” as such doesn’t exist in the same form it used to. Perhaps it doesn’t exist at all – as an entity with a unity and a sense of unity, that is.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:13:57 +0000

Well, trying to make the blogosphere arrive at any kind of consensus is like trying to herd cats on acid in zero gravity.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:06:43 +0000

James, there was one RWDB blogger in particular whose relentless (and I mean relentless) negativism might have had a lot to do with Vlado’s decision. It was a real pity in my view – it was a very well set up and thought through process.

By: James Russell

James Russell — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:58:18 +0000

Not surprised if Vlado gave up on the blog awards. I recall* one year he ran it (this being those glory days of Australian blogging when I was still operating Hot Buttered Death), possibly the first year he did so, someone in the comments to his post demanded that no leftist blogs should be considered for awards. Given the prevalence of this sort of dickhead in the blogosphere (or at least the comments boxes of same) back in those days (circa 2003/4, I suppose it must’ve been), I wouldn’t have been surprised if Vlado had just given up on the whole awards thing immediately back then.

* And if someone can explain to me why I remember useless shit of this nature rather than stuff I actually WANT to remember that will do me more good in future, I’ll be grateful…