Comments on: When is a book a book, when is news news, when when when?

By: Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:20:52 +0000

That’s the whole point of having the judges to help out though, surely one of them would have noticed it if there were really 7 judges looking at each blog. Or were they too scared to mention it?

I’ve just discovered that my registration back in Dec to attend the blog awards must have been eaten by the cat as he’s sent a mail to everyone who is registered about seats and I’ve not gotten one. That said he sent it to everyone not just those who do have seats and he’s blaming the email system rather than himself for that.

By: aj@lecraic

aj@lecraic — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:22:42 +0000

I just read your post and left a comment there that I don’t think it’s worth getting hung up on dates etc. It is a massive task and a logistical nightmare so the odd slippage can be expected. Having said that, you are right that it should be possible to offer your opinion and give feedback without being accused of things.

As for the content of this blog post – I hesitated for a long time before posting it, but I had to “get it off my chest”.

By: Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:28:21 +0000

We all know the real problem is that you didn’t pay the MulleyTax, he is the gate keeper of Irish blogging and you’re not allowed do your own thing unless you fess up that he is the greatest and we would all be nothing without him.

I got lambasted last year for noting the simple phenomenon that the best posts tend to be at the end of the year rather than spread throughout the year. I also found a few posts that were from outside the time-line but instead of saying ‘hmm…interesting that, we should try and sort it in future’ I got accused of contacting nominees and telling them they were ineligible. For the sake of consistency, I’ve looked at it again and found that we’ve folks on the shortlist who weren’t even remotely actively blogging between the dates specified by rules. Is a little basic checking beyond the process or is there even a process at all?

http://dansullivan.blogspot.com/2009/02/best-blog-posts-of-2008-bad-dates.html

By: aj@lecraic

aj@lecraic — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:24:51 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions – don’t think I’ll repeat the process this year though

By: Will Knott

Will Knott — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:14:24 +0000

Well you could upload it to a print on demand service… that way you have both.

Something else you could do is commit to making a 2009 e-book/pdf now. That way you have:
a)sucked up to the unknown winner in advance, and by making the commitment now, you don’t look like you’re sucking up
2)gotten some people interested in advance
iii) ask your readers if they would want the e-book in a written form (plus you get to play with polldaddy/surveymonkey) to see if you should bother with print on demand and
*) completely confused any way of doing bullet points