Crushing Krisis

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In actual cool news, Kevin from SurvivorBlog and Fury.com won the award for Best Humor/Satire site of 2000 at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (which i was hoping to attend; maybe next year?). He nabbed the award despite being an alternate finalist, which is especially cool, and he was also invited to speak on a panel about humor on the internet. He won for his highly amusing creation aoLiza, which is essentially an automated IM name that can endlessly prattle back and forth with you without really giving away that no one is actually listening. The humor can be found in the random people who IM Liza just for fun, and the conversations which ensue. Kevin offers a much better explanation on his site, so you ought to go read.

Isn’t it neat when i have award-winning friends and linkees? Now i’ve just got to ask Kevin who i have to fuck to get nominated for something next year :p

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Whee! After a very quiet month on the ‘Ginger’ front, we finally have a piece of solid speculation. He basically takes what i’ve been assuming all along and actually holds it up against some of the patent drawings that’ve been floating around the internet. While i’m still not totally sold on how Kamen’s invention will be bigger than the internet, i think i’m beginning to see the ramifications of it. Go take a look for yourself.

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Ok, so, the awards are really just a stupid popularity contest, and i don’t think anyone is disputing that. But, honestly, the best content does not lie within the most popular blogs. Without naming any names (and believe me, that’s not easy for me to do), many of the most recognized blogs are complete and utter tripe with no engaging writing or humor or anything that makes for a fun read. Will these people be nominated? Sure! Will they win? According to Matt, their popularity statistically ensures their win even if nominated against less popular and more deserving opponents.

The way to make this all interesting is to not vote for those insanely omnipresent popular weblogs. I call it my Nader Theory of Weblogs: some of the big names are a clear choice for some of their eligible categories, but for some of them (best blog of the year, best blogger.com blog) you know they’ll get nominated by someone else, so you can afford to pencil in your alternate favourites. So, i implore you, Go!, wreak havoc on the voting process!

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