OK Geeklawyer screwed up. Had he been paying attention he would have realised there was a web blog award happening. He didn’t. However our - he was about to say more switched on but it wouldn’t be true so let’s just say fortuitously attentive at the right moment - colleagues at the Impact blog are in the top 10 finalist list.
Next year we will be rivals in this vote: and Geeklawyer anticipates that they will behave like gentlemen; in a noble sporting and fair fashion. Geeklawyer, however, will try to fuck them over using foul and dirty tricks to rob them of a better deserved victory.
But that is next year. This year we will be magnanimous and suggest that since they are a genuinely great legal blog and are the only UK finalists, as patriotic Englishmen it is your obligation to vote for them by going here (and if you suffer from the pain of non Englishness you should seek symptomatic relief by doing likewise).
fret not Geeklawyer, even Mary has not been nominated and she too was not aware of this whole blog awards business.
Mary has decided, in the light of this most recent information from Geeklawyer, to ramp up her blog and hopefully be considered for next year’s awards.
The question begs to be asked though, how does one get nominated>
I will enter into the spirit of things by taking the Groucho Marx line on clubs… but I may resile from this line and resort to good old fashioned corruption, intimidation and bribery.
As it happens we won a major award sponsored by the Government in 2003 (Best use of the net for education), I did not go to the awards ceremony in my other guise - sent our marketing guy. A bit like Howard Hughes these days and I’d only have droned on about world peace or relief of poverty when making my acceptance speech a la Bono - and who needs to listen to that when getting pissed at the dinner?
I’ll vote for you - for a very small consideration… a glass of rioja? Suit you, Sir?
Competing for awards is a sad war (excuse the anagram).
Present company accepting, I think the best law blog in the UK is the Magistrates Blog… http://thelawwestofealingbroadway.blogspot.com/, closely followed by our parochial master at Binary Law http://www.binarylaw.co.uk/
Perhaps next year we should make more of a combined effort to compete with our yankee-google friends across the pond.
Thanks for patriotically recommending that people vote for IMPACT, our humble UK law blog. Against such competition, it’s definitely the taking part that counts!
Getting all the UK law blogs involved in the Weblog Awards next year is a great idea, although how any other blogs could stand a chance if blogs like Geeklawyer and IPKat were involved, I don’t know. Maybe we should keep quiet about it after all…
You get nominated by - ahem - nominating yourself. Lots of blogs nominate and then a team of highly trained blogging ninjas assess which should be finalists.
aha! self-promotion. That I can do.
[…] And to Geeklawyer, who is, as we all know obsessed with awards, may I just say Ppphhtt. Oh and a post of mine is currently a ‘must read’ at techlaw advisor. What can I say? It is not just the Bar that can do shameless self-promotion. […]