my own drum

I ran across something totally useless on Technorati's new WTF, which is an acronym for Where's The Fire... huh? wtf. Anyway, WTF is all about community building, and the premise is to have fun. Blogging with hemorrhoids is never fun. I'm still trying to figure out this WTF, and what it takes to be seen - to rise to the top. As far as I can tell its all about having enough friends to post a blurb on your WTF so it can be pushed to the top. More blurbs, higher visibility. The interface makes it difficult to search the WTF's, basically you need to scroll through a page of listings at a time until something strikes your fancy. I'm done after about two pages, who knows what I missed. There are options to sort the list, by Topic, number of blurbs or date. I'm not sure what makes up the Hottest WTF's, but I assume its about the number of attached blurbs and the total of votes for all of those blurbs. I haven't seen any real purpose other than to try to promote yourself or your cause. The topics that I see just aren't that hot button enough for me to ask Where's the Fire? I added a few of my own WTF's just to see what would happen to them. The results have confirmed what I already knew, I have no friends, and quite possibly no writing skills.

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Which brings me to my topic for today, the Blog of the Day Award. I first read about it on a WTF, so there you go. Anyway, what a concept. You write 300 to 500 really insightful words about your passion of the moment, and you receive the just recognition that you feel is due. You are impressed, your family is impressed, your traffic stays flat and you have to do it all over again just to prove it wasn't a fluke. No thanks.

To be sure I'm not trying to discourage anyone from writing their best, and for seeking some recognition and some traffic. We all know that traffic can be monetized, and recognition can be paid for. So this is a freebie of sorts, go for it. From what I've read in the blurbs about this award is that so far it appears to be a smallish group of blurbers who are nominating each other, or themselves. Of course, with a small pool of entrants, winning is a certainty. So, the organizers are depending on the blogosphere to provide them with the best blog each day? Not bad work if you can get it.