Congratulations to Pamie. She has won the first ever quarter Diarist.net Awards for Best Comedic Entry and Best Guest Entry. Her creativity and humor help to legitimize artistic expression in a new medium. Please keep up the good work.

I am working the overnight, so I am first to post congratulations. HA!

-- Anonymous, June 01, 1999

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All hail!

This is definitely as it should be, as most supposedly funny journals I've been reading lately are about as entertaining as getting a wisdom tooth yanked out. Pamie's efforts are the only ones that consistently make me laugh. So well done, Pamie! Take a bow! (throwing flowers at the monitor as I type).

-- Anonymous, June 01, 1999

CONGRATS TO YOU PAMIE!! You are the reason I laugh everyday after lunch and I am really glad you have this journal! Don't stop a good thing! You do a great job and I congratulate you on a great job. You deserve this award!!

-- Anonymous, June 01, 1999

Congratulations Pamie, on an award that you have totally earned. I adore your site and am estatic that you have recieved such recognition for it. Thanks for all the laughs !!!

-- Anonymous, June 01, 1999

Yeah, that WAS great, Pamie! And I'm tickled so many voted for that guest entry I did for you!--Al

-- Anonymous, June 02, 1999

Yes! I was jubilant to see that Pamie won a much deserved award for writing about that wooden spoon, even if she was just writing about something that happened instead of writing something creative. Also congrats to Al for writing that guest entry that won Pamie her other award. Kudos all round.

-- Anonymous, June 02, 1999

I think presenting a real happening in an interesting and funny way takes quite a bit of creativity. Congrats Pamie.

-- Anonymous, June 02, 1999

Pamie, I'd like you to write an analysis on the kind of kicks people get from being continually sardonic. Big Joe - perhaps you could finally be of use and help out with the research.

-- Anonymous, June 03, 1999

Did you guys agree with the awards? How do you like them compared to the Whitmans or even Beth's DJR awards?

Do you feel like someone got slighted? Who would you nominate for what award?

-- Anonymous, June 03, 1999

Right now, I think it's more important that good work is recognized. I think the more this new medium is legitimized, the more a high tide raises all ships.

I like that the Whitman doesn't go into best anything nonsense, by giving a list of a dozen or so sites readers can use as a starting point for the community. But for Diarist.net I like how the online journalers are legitimizing themselves. It implies that we recognize a storytelling discipline.

-- Anonymous, June 03, 1999

While I had no particular problem with the awards for individual entries, I do suspect that the site awards are flawed, for the simple reason that, for those of us who haven't read half of Open Pages, and lacked the time to read through the archives for all 18 (?) nominees, it became almost impossible to vote fairly.

For my part, while I did manage to read all 18 entry (not site) nominees and vote accordingly, I ended up voting in only two of the site categories. Of those two, in one of them, I voted based on a random sampling of entries from the two of the three diaries with which I was unfamiliar. Assuming that I wasn't alone in this approach, this hardly seems fair to the diarists in question.

Not that I have a better solution, other than having the final decision made by a small panel of judges that takes the time to do the job properly... but, then, that's precisely the sort of approach the Diarist.Net awards seems to be trying to avoid, so I don't know.

Just my two cents...

-- Anonymous, June 04, 1999

Hip Hip HOORAY!!! Hip Hip HOORAY!!! HOORAY for PAMIE!!!!

*blowing kisses* I think you're the best! *drying a tear*

-- Anonymous, June 04, 1999