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Forget the Bloggies--Let's Celebrate Indie BlogsA Bloggie, of course, is becoming the most recognized award a blogger can achieve. But the award is certainly more of a mainstream celebration than not; most of the winners are, as defined by its rules, well-known. You must receive a large number of nominations before your blog may even be considered for an award, and how does one receive a large number of nominations but by having a huge readership from which you can solicit those nominations? Thus, your blog must be well-known to receive an award.
I suppose many of you may argue that the point of the award is to celebrate the best--and the most heavily-read, well-known blogs must be the best out there, right? Not exactly. Many of the more well-known blogs are composed of a group of self-described "A-List" bloggers, a community of bloggers who have chosen to link to and celebrate each other's sites in an effort to establish and preserve their own Top Dog status. This is not to say that there aren't some wonderful writers/bloggers in that group--I'm just saying there are some wonderful and imaginative writers/bloggers outside the A-List that aren't being recognized by this self-aggrandizing Academy Awards-type of celebration. So what's the solution? Perhaps someone should establish another awards show, one that is less for A-List bloggers and designed more to recognize--or simply get the word out on--those well-written and well-designed blogs that are lesser known. An Independent Spirit-type of recognition. Not to be confused with the Anti-Bloggies, of course, which is more of a Razzies-type of showcase. In my ideal blog awards ceremony there would be a category for Thinking Outside the Blog, those experiments that utilize some blogging techniques and/or technologies to create a different type of blogsite than we've become accustomed to. Another category would be for more specific areas, like Most Engaging Internet Radio Blog, or Most Spirited and Opportunistic Mars Rover Blog, or Most Informative Relationship Blog. (Don't ask me where the relationship blog idea came from--I don't even read those types of blogs. Or do I?) To top it off, we can playfully retain blogging's democratic promotional spirit by celebrating a Random Blog. We all love recognition, and perhaps the world would be a happier place if we had more awards ceremonies. Unfortunately, too many of these ceremonies are designed as incestuous promotional affairs in which already-established entities pat each other's backs. Let's establish an outlet for more voices to become known. Of course, I don't have time to do it myself--I have an Internet radio station to run. But please consider my nomination for the following category: AWARD FOR A RANDOM BLOG: A RANDOM BLOG
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