But they were, at least Helsingin Sanomat .

Excellent!! I was looking around the room for them, but didn’t see them.

It’ll grow, be sure of that.

but, phil, you know how the Finnish awards/jurys are sometimes chosen – remember the last time you ranted about this all.

What would happen if, for instance, The Academy Awards had a panel of only five people, who were all movie directors/producers themselves, and one of them was George Lucas, and Star Wars II won the “Film of the Year” – what kind of credibility would they have for that and what would the public think?

I second that Phil, but there’s something I want to point out.

” Red ribbons were handed out at the door to those who wanted to remain anonymous and didn???t want their picture taken”

You had the chance to picture anyone you wanted. The point was “not to publish pics of these in your website, or if you do without asking, please “blur” it.

The year before we told people to ask the person in a picture if he/she wanted to have that picture published in the web. Some of people didn’t ask anyone. Some of anonymous bloggers got pissed of.

I wouldnt have been in the stage yesterday wearing the red ribbon but apparently there were no volunteers for hosting. I do blog on daytime during my work. My boss would not love me for doing that.

I would like to point out that in case a judge was nominated for a category, he did not participate in the voting process.

And nobody is claiming that the process was professional in the first place.

Mindy – thanks for the info! I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one who thinks this. And congrats on your award!!

Janne – it’s a shame that you’re not aiming for professionalism with this award.

Very well said, Phil. I must agree with your last comment – it’s a shame an event of this magnitude, being mentioned in Hesari and all, mainly serves the interests of the judges and their inner circle (along with a couple of other bloggers that tend to link to each others’ posts quite frequently).

I remember hearing there are blogging people living outside of Kallio as well. Nevertheless, I’ll stay tuned for next year.

Ilta-Sanomat was there. J-P made a short story about gala and was actually looking after you very early in the evening. Didn’t find you, I suppose.

Who’s J-P ?

They’re just blogs where a large portion of the planet either doesn’t know about them or doesn’t care. Blogging is supposed to be fun and instead becomes some kind of bullshit popularity contest to see how many degrees of separation there are between the judges and the nominees which, in Finland, especially Helsinki, will be 2 or less. Start your own award show Phil and give yourself an award. I keep waiting for the hype to die down.

J-P = Juha-Pekka Tikka.

Ahh…and he works for Ilta-Sanomat? Sucks that I missed him!

Phil: the judging in this contest seems quite in tune with how Finland’s welfare state apportions grants to its artists. I’ve often heard complaints from Finnish artists, musicians, and filmmakers about their trials and tribulations when it comes to seeking funding. In almost every field, the decision-makers tend to be swayed by connections, and ulterior motives.

In the free-market version, ei sinutella should have won. But not in Finland.

Unreal! I can’t believe I am actually replying to any of these posts, but people, please, read the whole thread one more time and try not to laugh.

Phil, exhale. Yeah, sure it would have been nice to win but you didn’t. Just drop it. Forget about it.

Keep doing your thing and maybe one day Helsingin Sanomat or JP (the one that works for Iltasanomat) finds you. Good luck.

Jesse James – I think you’re missing the point entirely.

I think “Jesse” and other writers who are accusing Phil of being jealous or bitter are rather pathetic. Phil makes valid points about the Kuukkeli contest.

If it is a contest about what five dudes think of their blogs and those of their friends – as it now seems to be – it is rather unfair to call in the media to celebrate it as the Finnish blog awards. True, anyone could start their own, but c’mon, how many do you think the media will report? It’s not like there are a million blogs in Finland.

“it is rather unfair to call in the media to celebrate it as the Finnish blog awards. True, anyone could start their own, but c???mon, how many do you think the media will report?”

exactly.

Well said, Phil and Tiedemies! Of course, the jury in question was free to choose any winners they saw fit – I mean, they did a whole lotta work organizing the gala and everything – but to call the contest “Finnish blog awards”, given the line-up of the jury and the voting process, and how it was taken into account, is thoroughly absurd: Here are the nominees you saw fit, but we thought it’s best we give the award to ourselves. (and btw: however aware the jury was from the beginning that they were no professionals, and indeed it was proven they weren’t, it doesn’t mean the process wasn’t totally f****d up, pardon my french)

If this kind of nonsense is to continue, better call the awards “Kallio-bloggers wish all well to each other and here’s a small statue awards”, and forget about calling them, rather pompously, “Finnish Blog Awards”. Sheesh!

Since there are no other orgnizers of awards like this, I think the “Finnish Blog Awards” name fits. At the same time I also would like to see the selection process improved, the whole process to be more open and more inclusive of larger part of the blogging community.

As far as I know I was one of the judges and I’m pretty sure I’m not “a dude”.

I still think you’re just taking this way too seriously. It is a blog award. Sometimes you “win”, sometimes you don’t. I never do. I can understand that you need recognition for your (solid) work with the blog and I can even sympathize your checking the Pinseri ranking every 10 minutes. It’s human. You want to be the best, who doesn’t?

But dude, this is not a huge thing. At all.

“Keep doing your thing and maybe one day Helsingin Sanomat or JP (the one that works for Iltasanomat) finds you. Good luck.”

Um. Firstable:

I think that Helsingin Sanomat should’ve also mentioned in the article that ‘Kuukkeli is not official and nobody (especially not the organizers) is claiming that the process is professional in the first place.’ It should’ve been there. Kuukkeli-awards are not enjoying public trust, and awarding should really be based completely to jury (none of them could or should be part of any of the blogs being nominated), or completely to the audience.

Then it could be perhaps taken seriously and I could respect the efforts and outcome.
I disrespect lots of the members of the jury because of their selfish and rather na?Æve opinions said out loud during this conversation all around ‘blogistan’. Most of them seem to be rather arrogant and rude, and somehow self-glorify their illusional success and authority. Even a person I think as a friend has said some incredibly stupid things aloud in this conversation and I try to justify them just being happily ignorant. All of them, surprisingly, are the ones who themselves are actively taking part in the social gatherings (I don’t consider that as a Crime), and considering themselves as the elite of a kind.

Personally, I’d like to see people seeing the bigger picture and taking their heads out of their ass.

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