Re: Cork City Council's website wins a Golden Spider Award

John Breslin wrote:
>  >>as far as I know, there is no such thing as an objective web 
> development competition.
>  >Nobody has ever said that the GoldenSpiders were a "web development" 
> competition. They don't say it either.
> Kae - do you mean in general, not just the Golden Spiders?  As a 
> previous recipient of a Golden Spider for boards.ie, I think I can be 
> critical and say things have changed for the worse with those awards.  
> I'd hope that the forthcoming Irish Web Awards will be objective at 
> least.  And I think the Net Visionary awards are too...
I mean in general. It would be nice to think that there are genuine 
competitions out there, where the nominations are chosen by merit rather 
than by self-nomination, but I have not come across any.
	Admittedly, I have not looked very much, but I have not come across any 
competition that I would call faintly objective and merit-based.
I must admit that we (webworks) were also considered for an award in a 
past GS event, but the excitement very quickly vanished, as it was 
painfully obvious that the only reason we were considered was because we 
had paid to be included in the system.
I think competitions are very important, in a darwinian way, but I don't 
think there is any value to be placed in a competition where the prime 
requisite for being nominated is that you can pay the entrance fee.
Kae