As you probably know, nominations are open over at Medgadget for the 2005 Medical Weblog Awards.
There's been a fair amount of discussion about the best way to accept future nominations and determine winners. I was browsing Clinical Cases and Images and saw that last year's winner, Grunt Doc, suggests thumb wrestling...
So, not wanting to miss out on my chance to express an opinion on the matter, I come to the Medical Blogosphere with a proposal... Ta Da...
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Since MedGadget started this, the onus is on them to create, manage, and of course fund the Academy of Blogging Arts and Sciences.
Nominations shall be restricted to select members of the Academy. I'm not sure how they'll be selected, that would be Medgadget's problem to figure out. (That'll teach you for coming up with a good concept!) Once the field has been narrowed to no more than five nominees in each category, all members of the Academy of Blogging Arts and Sciences shall be permitted to vote for one Bloscar winner in each category.
The annual Award Ceremonies will, of course, be lavish. Each nominee will be required to submit an 8x10 glossy suitable for framing of themselves (or a face of their choice if they blog anonymously) to Medgadget for posting. Nominees will also need to mention whose designer duds they are wearing in the photo, Wallmart, Target, Bloomingdales, etc. Perhaps Medgadget can sell some advertising space to said designers to help fund the Academy.
As technology advances (and who better to help move us in that direction than MedGadget?) acceptance speeches, as well as the mandatory pre-awards fashion critique, can be distributed via podcast and perhaps even videocast.
What say you Medgadget?
:-)
As we consistently find on Medgadget, technology advances in faster than a lot of people expect...
Posted by: Nick | November 30, 2005 at 12:58 PM
Hey! Let's get Joan Rivers for the pre-show! She can insult all the templates!
This is too funny!
Posted by: Kim McAllister | November 30, 2005 at 02:34 PM
Shouldn't we call it Medscars instead?
Anyways, as far as we can tell, medblogging is the hottest thing lately, and anyone we talk to is completely fascinated and involved in it. I bet this whole Blogscars thing will soon be bigger than those outdated Oscars.
Posted by: Gene | November 30, 2005 at 06:01 PM
Medscars? I don't know, I don't think any Plastic Surgery blogs would want that award... :)
Posted by: Rita | December 01, 2005 at 05:05 AM
The plastic surgeons could compete for the Invisible Medscar!
Posted by: Barbados Butterfly | December 01, 2005 at 07:26 PM
Actually, it used to be considered fashionable for surgeons to compete for the BIGGEST scar --- I vote for "Medscars!"
Posted by: Aggravated DocSurg | December 01, 2005 at 09:46 PM