{"id":644,"date":"2006-02-16T22:46:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T03:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/02\/16\/expertise\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T22:46:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T03:46:34","slug":"expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/expertise\/","title":{"rendered":"Expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nominee lists for the <a href=\"http:\/\/wampum.wabanaki.net\/vault\/koufax\/koufax05\/\">2005 Koufax Awards<\/a> continue to appear, although I don&#8217;t think voting has opened yet.  The most recent category is <a href=\"http:\/\/wampum.wabanaki.net\/vault\/2006\/02\/002398.html\">Best Expert Blog<\/a>.  Sadly, our hopes for a respectable bronze medal in this category have been dashed, as we apparently did not make the short list (despite being, you know, nominated a couple of times).  But that&#8217;s okay, since we did get a nomination for <a href=\"http:\/\/wampum.wabanaki.net\/vault\/2006\/01\/002284.html\">Best New Blog<\/a> (where we will doubtless be crushed), and more importantly because there are a passel of great blogs that did get nominated.  Go check them out, and be prepared to vote!<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em>  Never mind.  We were nominated after all, just a little computer glitch.  So, that bit about a &#8220;passel of great blogs&#8221;?  Rubbish.  Those are terrible blogs.  Uninspired hackwork.  An embarassment to the very idea of blogging.  Really, we should win by process of elimination, and it&#8217;s up to you to provide the honest votes needed to ensure that just is served.<\/p>\n<p>(Actually, in this crowd CV will be lucky to finish in the top half.  We are happy to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kabc\/story?section=entertainment&amp;id=3903575\">George Clooney<\/a> of the blogosphere.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nominee lists for the 2005 Koufax Awards continue to appear, although I don&#8217;t think voting has opened yet. The most recent category is Best Expert Blog. Sadly, our hopes for a respectable bronze medal in this category have been dashed, as we apparently did not make the short list (despite being, you know, nominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}