Crabs and Spiders
Grandad October 31st, 2007
The weirdest things happen on the Interweb.
I discovered yesterday that I have been short-listed for the Golden Spider Awards.
They haven’t told me this. I never got any e-mails or anything. I just came across it by accident on their website. I’m a platform apparently.
I took a bit of a swipe at them a while ago and launched the Golden Crab Awards.
Then, for the laugh, I entered myself on the premise that if they accepted this, they’d accept anything. Apparently they accept anything.
Not that I’m knocking the other nominees. I’m not. They are good blogs and one of them deserves to win.
There’s
www.balconytv.com who I confess I never heard of ’til now.
Deborah at blog.humblehousewife.com
www.beaut.ie who I’m not going to mention.
www.newsweaver.co.uk/emailnewsletters who is my arch rival at the Netvisionary Awards!
And Damien at www.mulley.net who is one of the great heros of the Irish Internet scene.
Incidentally, one thing I came across on the Interweb… One of the entries is ColourGlass in the New Indigenous Website category. Nice site. Nice clean design. Now take a look at this. nice clean design!! Fair play to the developers of the site. It cost them $74. I wonder how much they charged the client for the design?
I didn’t sleep a wink last night.
Mind you, that was more down to Herself trying to poison me again, than to the awards.
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Grandad,
No harm to the judges, but three of those are simply websites - I’m not sure how a website devoted to ‘beauty’ tips can count as a blog.
Baffled.
Another one!
Any wall space left?
Congrats.
Ha! Well spotted with the templates!
Hello !!! Has anyone seen the wonderful job that Ron did on my site - totally worth a spider or crab.
Congratulations on your nomination. Funnily enough we have been moaning about the awards on our blog for a while now too. Not sure they read it. We also set up an internet award as a form of protest at ridiculous entry fees etc.
Anyway, its good to have discovered your blog.
Stephen
BalconyTV
Ian - In fairness to Beaut.ie, they are a blog, in that they post articles every day. The subject matter may not be to your taste or mine, but that’s our problem. [I'm assuming you are not into cosmetics and beauty treatments?]. BalconyTV is a bit strange though…..?
Grannymar - I’m going to give them away as wedding presents.
Robert - I wish I could claim credit, but I can’t. On seconds thoughts, I have better things to be doing than comparing websites…
Flirty - This has nothing to do with Ron. It is my brilliance as a blogger that is shining, not his mediocre performance as a designer.
Hi Stephen! congratulations![?] Maybe they are keeping their friends close, and their enemies closer still? It’s weird that we both knocked them, and both get nominated. Once more, I am left wondering what the hell their criteria are?
Any chance your Small Indian Girl could pick up my award, if necessary? In return, I’ll grant you a Golden Crab?
oh dear what does that mean for me
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Yep - time to start getting bitter and twisted again. Some beardy git in Dublin is beating me hands down. At everything.
Great post Grandad and see you at the NetVis next week
keith
Keith - Are you referring to Twenty?