Paul Colgan at The Punch is busy congratulating their readers for helping the site win the Specialist News Site of the Year at the PANPA awards. (You've won an award).
He noted that the site has published over 20,000 comments, to which one surly, ungrateful beast replied with the thought that if and when they start charging for the site, they should please make sure the posters will share in the revenue.
Well I don't want to piss on anyone's parade - I used to love to get elephant stamps and bright shiny stars, I was such a teacher's suck - but I was more enchanted by the story at mumbrella (here).
When asked by one punter why this hardly prizeworthy blog had picked up a gong after only three months in the game, the resident guru Tim Burrowes noted that the competition in the category was restricted to sites run by a newspaper owner. As the punter noted that made it a "print newspaper spinoff" award which would be definition exclude the likes of Crikey, New Matilda and others. Naughty Bill Posters jumped in and called it an entirely meaningless bauble. Well Bill Posters clearly deserves to be prosecuted.
Does the thought that players like News Corp only got into this part of the game three months ago prompt any thoughts? Like the way the music industry handled the arrival of the mp3? Or the film industry with the virus-like spread of the avi file?
Still if all you get out of the news is a trip to mumbrella, take a look around. That's how to do a blog.
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