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: Name: Georganna Hancock; Location: San Diego, California, United States

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Saturday, January 12, 2008

Rising Non-Awards

Remember how I ranted about the non-awards being pass throughout the blogging community? It has really gotten out of hand. Now they fill at least six pages of ten links each in the Technorati account for A Writer's Edge. Sure, my "authority" level is rising with all these phony posts, but just wait for the crash when they all expire eventually! Please note: I do value the individual, meaningful badges designated by such people as Beth and Lillie and appreciate the holiday greetings from people who I know read this blog.

Wendell Dryden in New Bruswick picked up on my rant in his blog, "qualities communities literacy". He concluded:

Awards are tricky things... to give or receive.

Maybe the secret is to remember that awards need to point to the work we do, and never become the work itself.

I traced back the hokey trend's beginning (for me) to this ignominious award I was not happy to receive on December 7th:

That pretty much says it all.

Labels: silly

2 Comments:

Beth said...: I got the "nutty" award also. Thanks for including me in the category of awards you feel are meaningful.

By the time I received the "nutty" award, I woke up and realized that things were getting just a bit out of hand.; 9:47 AM
Lillie Ammann said...: Georganna,
I agree with you on this but must confess I wrote about the "Nutty Award." It was silly but it brought back a precious memory to me: my late mother had a little pillow on her favorite chair that said "My family tree is full of nuts." The award reminded me of my mother and her silly pillow and brought a smile to my face. I shared the memory in a post and said that I wouldn't ordinarily recognize such an award, but the memory was too precious to ignore.

But I do agree that these awards are getting out of hand, and there are a bunch I have ignored. In general, except for my nutty memory :-), I acknowledge only awards that are relevant.; 2:30 PM