I always enjoy Match Of The Day's Goal Of The Month competition and I was watching it the other day while reading Jon's lovely blog round-up.
And it struck me that we could have fun doing a Post Of The Month competition.
I'm thinking it should work like this. We all nominate our favourite posts from September on any topic relating to brands, marketing, advertising, life, culture, people, stuff. You know. Whatever. We collect those nominations by the end of the first week of October. If you could email me or comment on here, I'll build a master list. And maybe do some shortlisting if neccesary. Then we all vote, and then someone gets awarded Post Of The Month, and we'll make a nice little badge for them to display.
How does that sound? I think that'll be fun.
I think you should be able to nominate as many as you like and you can nominate yourself.
Do we need any other rules?
Update: David's done a splendid badge-thing for us. It's at the top. Many thanks David.
You really are a glutton for punishment aren't you!
Talking of punishment [what a link] it reminds me of a joke ...
A Mum walks downstairs holding a bunch of hardcore S&M mags.
With tears in her eyes she tells her husband that she found them under their 10 year old boys bed.
"What should we do?" she asks tearfully.
"Well ..." say's the Dad, "... we're sure as hell not going to spank him!"
Posted by: Rob @ Cynic | September 21, 2006 at 12:14 PM
I don't think you fully realise what you got yourself into....considering the community around your blog, you will have to deal with dozens of recommendations!
lets see if it works!
A.
Posted by: Asi | September 21, 2006 at 01:40 PM
I nominate:
Better advice for young planners by Richard Huntington
http://www.adliterate.com/archives/2006/08/better_advice_f.html
And five things about powerpoint
by you Russell
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/09/download_5_thin.html
Posted by: Organic frog | September 21, 2006 at 01:40 PM
here's my riff
life 2.0 by David Armano:
http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2006/09/we_are_not_alon.html
tech: how to explain RSS the orphan way (Stephanie Quilao)
http://cravingideas.blogs.com/backinskinnyjeans/2006/09/how_to_explain_.html#comment-22725490
work: 3 types of productivity (digital digressions)
http://www.digitaldigressions.net/blog/2006/08/productivity_en.html
enjoy.
A.
Posted by: Asi | September 21, 2006 at 05:09 PM
Sounds like a "carnival" except for the voting part. When pajamas media launched, they had a carnival that got 50 entries and they put links up to all 50.
You need to be really clear about the timing too, as some of the recommendations include August posts. I don't see that as a problem for this first go round though.
Posted by: Carol | September 21, 2006 at 06:02 PM
I nominate my own post in the hope that it will prompt more people to see the brilliant Half Nelson (in the US at least - not sure it's out anywhere else yet).
Johanna very kindly agreed to host this. It didn't make sense on my music blog. So it's a joint entry.
http://tokyohanna.blogspot.com/2006/09/we-are-hollow-men.html
Posted by: Dylan Trees | September 21, 2006 at 06:30 PM
What an excellent idea!
Here is my pick:
Playing it safe part II
http://thebrandbuilder.blogspot.com/2006/09/playing-it-safe-part-2.html
Posted by: David Armano | September 21, 2006 at 07:05 PM
Excellent start folks. This is quite exciting.
Anyone want to design a badge/medal prize thing. Paul? - I'd be very excited to see yours.
Posted by: russell | September 21, 2006 at 10:52 PM
Not sure I can draw badges, only people. Actually I'm not I can draw people either. I'm quite good at sheep. So yeah, maybe I should give it a go.
Posted by: Colman | September 22, 2006 at 12:07 AM
Here's a design idea if you are interested. I'm sure you will get a bunch of takers on this.
http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2006/09/russells_post_o.html
Great idea. Looking forward to following this.
Posted by: David Armano | September 22, 2006 at 12:16 AM
In case I forget I nominate my own
post:
http://samadblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/now-its-time-for-bavaria.html
p.s. u da man russell
Posted by: sam | September 22, 2006 at 04:07 AM
Distributed Village.
Anyone booked the domain name yet?
Posted by: Charles Edward Frith | September 22, 2006 at 04:31 AM
You have mail Russell.
Not quite up to the standard of David Armano's work, but almost, almost.
Posted by: Colman | September 22, 2006 at 09:22 AM
David, that's lovely. Many thanks for that. I'd be very happy to go with that. (Though personally I'm not sure it needs the 'Russell Davies'.)
Paul, yours is genius, in art by prisoners and madmen kind of way. While I love it I think some people might be reluctant to have it on their blog. Nike might have problems too. Will you post it on lifeinthemiddle or should I put it here? You know, for the world to see.
Posted by: russell | September 22, 2006 at 12:20 PM
Great idea, Russell! My favourite so far this month is this one:
http://www.advertisingourselvestodeath.com/2006/09/snakes_on_a_pla.html
Posted by: Gavin Heaton | September 22, 2006 at 01:06 PM
Cool Russell, glad you liked it. I've updated the visual on my blog (sans your name). let me know if you can grab it from my blog.
http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2006/09/russells_post_o.html
Posted by: David Armano | September 22, 2006 at 04:23 PM
I know I'm late. Sorry. But I would nominate the following:
My best post yet (I think)
http://hyperthink-a-printing-company.blog.co.uk/2006/09/01/winning_new_stuff~1088072
And Paul's on MMA
http://lifeinthemiddle.typepad.co.uk/life_in_the_middle/2006/09/fighting_beauti.html
Posted by: Marcus Brown | September 22, 2006 at 05:21 PM
I definitely agree with Dave Armano's first suggestion. ;D
Ahem.
Posted by: olivier blanchard | September 22, 2006 at 10:46 PM
This Is My Process.
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/017485.html
U da man.
Posted by: Ben | September 22, 2006 at 11:45 PM
Maybe it's very usual for you, but I've never heard about it before in Brazil. I just found it interesting:
Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2006
Posted by: Fabio Kenji Lombardi | September 23, 2006 at 12:38 AM
Sorry:
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2006/
Posted by: Fabio Kenji Lombardi | September 23, 2006 at 12:39 AM
related to the "playing it safe" post above, I also liked jason's post on failure here:
http://lbtoronto.typepad.com/lbto/2006/09/failure.html
Posted by: lisa | September 23, 2006 at 04:01 AM
Russell,
I'd post it on my blog but the image is at work, so feel free to post, or I can do Monday.
Either way I think it's important that your readers view it, and see what a disastrous mistake you've made - you almost made me cry when you said "... I think some people might be reluctant to have it on their blog".
Gutted.
Posted by: Colman | September 23, 2006 at 10:07 AM
Expressed my outrage here...
http://lifeinthemiddle.typepad.co.uk/life_in_the_middle/2006/09/russell_davies_.html#comments
Posted by: Colman | September 25, 2006 at 09:19 AM
Perhaps people should have the choice of banner? As long as it links back to the same place...
A little calculated brand inconsistancy seems in the nature of the proposal anyway.
Plus, I'm vastly entertained by the idea of hundreds of bloggers feverishly competing to put a sheep on their site.
Posted by: Jared | September 26, 2006 at 02:22 PM