DeafRead 2006 Blog Awards - Did I miss a memo?
This is really f-ed up.
I cruised over to Tate’s blog to check out his latest update and with complete suprise, read this:
Tim Kettering whopped mine in the Best Photography Blog! Congrats to everyone who got nominated even. Keep A-blogging and next year I want to see new stuff up there! I love how our community works online!
HUH? My thought was - “When was I nominated? When did I win? How did I win with a blog that has posted almost no pictures in the last two months? And how the hell did Tate not win, when his blog is far more ‘photography’ oriented than my blog?”
So I checked around. Ah. DeafRead was sponsoring the voting for the Best Deaf Blogs for 2006. And somehow my “blog” was nominated for Best Photography Blog, along with Tate, Claire, and other talented deaf photographers. You can find the page here.
And just to take a look, I click on the link that has my name and it takes me… NOT to this blog, but rather, to the online gallery for ‘Black Friday’.
So not only was I nominated for, and won a best blog of 2006.. it was for a link that isn’t a blog - but a freaking online photo gallery!
So to go over the major points.
- I was never notified I was nominated (so I might have corrected their link).
- I was never notified that I won (dont you usually want to let the winners know?).
- The “blog” nominated was nothing more than a photo gallery of photos taken in four hours on a single (but important) night out of a whole year of people blogging about the deafworld.
- Four other bloggers (whos sites I have recently checked) were in my opinion far better photography-oriented blogs than my blog has/ever been.
To everyone who voted for me I wanted to say thanks for the votes and most importantly, thanks for your support. However I cannot in good consicence accept this award. This award truly belongs to everyone else nominated for Best Photography Blog - not me. Here are the REAL winners:
- thetate - as always, love his work and free-roaming opinions!
- People of the Eye - faithfully covered the protest day after day.
- pictures by der sankt - love his black and white work of new york city!
- All About The Pictures - if i could only do candids and storytellling as well as she could…
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Hi Tim
People seem to think that we chose the nominees. Your gallery was nominated by DeafReaders, and I knew you had a blog somewhere so you qualified. I should have notified you.
It’s just now that I am able to sit down in front of a computer since the blog awards winners were announced last Saturday night. Congratulations on winning, Tim!
powa to popularities!!!!!! just hush and stash that ilu trophy.
yeah, this is old news. i saw your name while i was there nominating for another deaf blogger and you two were the only names i recognized so i voted.