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Winning a Webby!

To my utter amazement, I learned the other day that a blog for 
which I am a contributor, ScholarlyKitchen, is up for a Webby 
Award, the Web's equivalent of the Academy Awards, but without 
the dresses.  I imagine that many members of this list are 
already familiar with ScholarlyKitchen.  The Kitchen is at 
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org.  The category for the Webby 
is business blogs.  Business!  For a site dedicated to scholarly 
communications!

I know that many of the members of this list have been clicking 
on the links to the Kitchen that I have been posting from time to 
time (our spies are everywhere, in the form of shortened and 
traceable URLs), and I am sure that that accounts for some of the 
attention the site has been getting.  To which I say:  heartfelt 
thanks.

The Kitchen crowd is now campaigning for votes.  You can vote 
here:

http://bit.ly/b8gn1U

It's in a good cause, by my standards.  Scholarly publishing is 
both more and less advanced in electronic publishing than 
consumer publishing.  EVERYTHING is digital in the scholarly 
world, but to hear the digital geeks outside the academy talk 
about it, most professors write with a piece of coal on a coal 
shovel.

You can move the digital agenda along with a vote for the 
Kitchen. Many of the people now working on a digital agenda pay 
little attention to the needs of the research community. Winning 
a Webby will turn heads.

Joe Esposito