VOTE FOR BOARDS!!!!

dun

tis done

Done!
TAKE IT silly corrupt worthless awards people

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- Sh33r l33tn35$, i tell you
- -SK- Clan site

Originally posted by Hobbes:
You know the more I read this site, the more it's going to show how corrupt Ireland is.

The whole internetawards.ie thing is a farce just like most other Irish web awards events. I originally posted a message on the IIA Webmaster list about how suspect the whole thing was, especially questioning the impartiality of the selection - all of the selection seemed to be past or current Web Ireland advertisers. Yahoo.co.uk, the winner in last year's awards wasn't even operating in Ireland at the time it won and only opened an advertising office after the event as far as I remember. HackWatch made it to the top four and though the "winners" were promised £9K of consultancy from a leading Irish web firm, nobody seemed to have got anything and HackWatch was not even contacted.

The post on WST upset those delicate technology journalists in Web Ireland. I got a phonecall from the editor of WI next day and he was very upset having read the message I posted on "the bulletin board" [sic]. My first question was whether the selection were past or current advertisers. Second was about who selected the candidates. It turned out that it was himself, Andrew McLindon, and his deputy copywriter. I was then told that I was seeing conspiracies everywhere. Basically that is what is known as a non-denial denial. Web Ireland had been caught stuffing their e-lection thing with their friends and non-lethal choices (Apart from John Sterne who is a very good journo). What really irritated me was that the main choices in the journo section were people who's primary output is bland cliche riddled press release rewrites. Web Ireland is a magazine that is increasingly irrelevant. It is merely advertising punctuated by exerises in sequential spelling.

And the webcast of last year's event - I was lucky to have a pot of Jamacian Blue Mountain coffee and some paracetemol to hand. The production was so poor that it was like some really naff seventies porno film but without the funny dialogue.

I guess the ultimate irony is that Web Ireland does not actually have a real website - other than a bit of content free brochureware.

Regards...jmcc

Originally posted by DeVore:
Ok, yes we limited the options. We actually thought people here would see the funny side of us exploiting their lack of referrer-URL checking.

Ah come on now, it's not exactly a big deal even if they did bother checking HTTP-REFERER, should take all of 30 seconds to sort out that little hurdle.

Oh, and as soon as internetawards.ie are up I'ill vote.

don't know why I I did it,
don't know why I liked doing it,
and I don't know why I'll do it again.

Ah..done it

GWAN THE BOARDS

john

Originally posted by Baz_:
Done, but like the last post I saw, I don't know why???

To stick it to those muppets with their corrupt pat-on-the-back awards.

shame to see very few of the 'old skool' quakers are replying here.
have they voted and just thought they wouldnt bother telling us or what?
shame really.
hmmm, done it already havent i?

done!

done