Golden Spider Awards are becoming a joke
Damien Mulley points out that the Golden Spider nominees have been announced. I’ve just had a look at the ones under the Personal /Blog site. They seem to have included anyone who was prepared to pay the entrance fee. At least there used to be an entrance fee when they were trying to get us to enter. I’m not sure what it is now, maybe someone could tell me. Fairplay to Kilrowan Arts Festival for doing a website. I alwasy think that far too many people are put off on the basis of what it costs. They’ve put one up which gives all the details that you would need to get in touch with them. By having a web presence they are making themselves available to all who Google. However the fact is that the site (or page rather) is almost noteworthy in how badly it is designed (certainly viewing it in Firefox) and would not compare to the blog site or your average blogger.
The problem is you have to pay to nominate, which restricts their available nominees to the extent that they have to shortlist every nominee. This has seriously devalued the award. They need to get a sponsor to cover the cost of nominations and open the event up to all websites if they are going to have continue into the future.
The only part of your post I disagree with is the title. …Remove the ‘becoming.’
Comment by danger — November 29, 2005 @ 5:56 pm
I’d agree with danger
Why the hell aren’t they even capable of actually linking to the nominees’ sites?
Comment by Michele — November 29, 2005 @ 8:03 pm
Hi - may I make the point that the Kilrowan Arts Festival website is intended to have an amateurish look to it, since it is entirely fictitious! It is the first clue in an online treasure trail that leads to my personal website (www.kate-thompson.com) via other websites that have been constructed for the characters who appear in my latest bestselling novel. It is an elaborate piece of fun with lots of in-jokes for the reader (for instance, if you look closely at the image of ‘Hugh Hennessy’, who runs the ‘festival’, you will see that actually he is being impersonated by one Ciaran Hinds, who is currently starring as Julius Caesar in the BBC epic - ‘Rome’.
Comment by kate thompson — November 30, 2005 @ 8:14 pm
Thanks Kate for pointing that out.
It would probably have gone totally over most people’s head that this was a ficticious site, although I did recognise the actor from a film I had seen in the past.
I’m still not convinced that this one page is worthy of noteable mention as compared with the 1000’s of other personal irish websites / blogs.
Comment by irishblogs — December 1, 2005 @ 12:36 pm