(CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE)The Blog Award Challenge was conceived with one goal in mind: The desire to encourage good writing and recognize distinctive voices floating in the overwhelming expanse of the blogosphere.
It is envisioned to be a convenient place for bloggers to discover each other, linked together by pleasure for well-penned entries that feature strong points of view, style, humor, arguments or sheer entertainment value.
We have taken notice of many recreational badges being bestowed on one another by bloggers who hope to increase links and respective site traffic. Similar tactics are employed through blog popularity polls where a blogger with the most number of loyal friends and voters are awarded the highest merits, while noteworthy blogs remain obscure. We pondered these discrepancies and we discovered several bloggers expressing the same sentiments.
Thus an idea popped: We will create an independent award-giving platform. The kind of award based on peer respect and not on popularity. The kind of award where quality writing takes the center stage and merits are bestowed free of phantom/anonymous voters and technical manipulation. The kind of award that strives to rise above the rampant amateurish blather that incubates rapidly in cyberspace.
We also made a conscious decision not to hand out cash prizes or similar expensive tokens because TBAC is not envisioned to be a money-making gambit for its founders (aside from the obvious fact that TBAC organizers are not swimming in cash or board members in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation): It all boils down to the love of writing. When we all started our blogs we were not motivated by money but the need to express our thoughts in a distinctive way. This is not to say that creation of blogs focused on moneymaking is not a good idea—earning money out of blogging is a good and easy enterprise, but our pursuit is finding and recognizing blog talents, earn the admiration and respect of like-minded bloggers, and not run a cash contest.
However there is one significant detail we haven't openly disclosed: Since the very moment of conception of The Blog Award Challenge we were already thinking of publishing a book*. Yes a book compiling the best written submissions in TBAC. We feel that this book project will be a worthwhile documentation of the pioneering bloggers whose creative talents outshine the flash of new technology. Besides, cash prizes are easily spent but being included in the TBAC book project is a tangible testament of talent that no passing technology and glitzy events can effectively capture.
( * Winning entries and selected finalists will be included in the book project. Published bloggers will be furnished free copies as a token for participation in the challenges. The above illustration/image is a visual rendering of the TBAC book project and do not necessarily represent the final design, layout and format of the book to be published.)
Check it out!
Blog Challenge 6 Winners and Blog Challenge 7 Entries!
5 comments:
ayus to!
being in a book, not just in a blogpost or newspaper is really something. it somehow, uhm, immortalize you. hahaha.
goodluck, sana ma pushthru!
this news makes the whole experience more worthwhile. more power tbac!
wow. anggaling naman. :)
sana nga matuloy. ;)
weee.
man, i wanna get recognized for my blog efforts. di naman sh*t pinag-susulat ko eh.
more power guys! thanks for recognizing the ablity behind our pseudonyms.
-ako si pen palaboy
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