October 18, 2005

Kicking My Own Ass

From the webmasters of Wampum, the hosts of the annual Koufax Awards for Outstanding Acheivement in the Field of Excellence in Left-of-Center "Writing," comes this urgent plea for donations:

"First off, I want to thank everyone who has been so kind and supportive of our fundraising drive so far. I hate to ask for seconds, but we've only raised a quarter ($600) of the minimum we'll need (that is, if we see no growth over last year), and we're now over half-way to the drive's end. We had a matching challenge last week for $500, but failed in reaching the goal established by the contributor. We hope they'll come back with a similar offer again.

A few comments have popped up on different blogs as to why we hold the awards on a private server with dedicated bandwidth when Blogger could handle the bandwidth issue. In part, it's to prevent multiple voting... I put most of these issues, in more elaborate form, in a post last week

This year will be the fourth year in which Wampum (and Dwight's former home, PLA) are holding the Koufax Awards. While it's great to win the top prize in the awards, the best part of the event is the showcasing of hundreds of blogs, posts and commentors which are often overlooked, or too quickly forgotten in the lightning speed of cyberspace today. As the years have passed, the number of nominations have increased exponentially, with over a thousand nominees last year alone. Personally, while it means a lot more work, we here think this is a very good thing.

If you're able (and we recognize a lot of people are strapped these days), we hope you'll consider dropping a few quid in the pot to support this year's awards. And remember, the nominating process opens in Mid-December, so start scanning your favorite blogs now for deserving posts, series and comments (yes, we've had a few already via email.) The links to previous winners are here: 2004, 2003, and 2002."

Of course, I have no idea why I'd want to encourage any further half-assed recognition that drives up my bandwidth costs. Wait a minute, yes I do. To determine which of you people are loyal readers (by nominating and voting for me) and which of you are snivelling curs (by nominating and/or voting for somebody else). Anybody can vote for a fake lobster or a fake general (and they do); it takes real guts to go with a significantly less funny person who uses a lame pseudonym. And I don't mean T-Bogg (fucked-up commenting system) or The Editors (yuppie), I said significantly less funny. Christ, am I that invisible?

So go donate!




Posted by Norbizness at October 18, 2005 06:59 AM
Comments

Yeah, but you took away your blogroll bribe! What, is this so that you can re-bribe annually or something? Huh?

Posted by: Scorpio at October 18, 2005 12:30 PM

i like the active campaigning - maybe wampum can incorporate league of women voter questionnaires, financial disclosures, registration drives, and eating of babies.

Posted by: paperpusher at October 18, 2005 03:02 PM

YAAAGH! Thank you for grumping about TBogg's commenting system. Lighting don't strike often for me, and when it strikes, I want everyone to know, but NOOOOOO that commenting system blocks me!

Posted by: Pepper at October 18, 2005 03:26 PM

dood, the polls show you better get blog-married or find a super-lefty alter ego to co-host who can throw some raw meat to the doves. otherwise, I'm thinking you're fighting with t-bogg for an old-timers' foto-finish for third.

if I put $25 on norbizness to show, can I count on you keeping a lid on the lawyer stuff?

Posted by: craig at October 19, 2005 08:49 PM