Yesterday I received the following totally unsolicited e mail
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Dear Conortje author,
Our editors recently reviewed your blog and have given it a 7.2 score out of (10) in the Personal Blogs category of Blogged.com.
This is quite an achievement!
We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style.
After carefully reviewing each of these criteria, your site was given its 7.2 score.
Please accept my congratulations on a blog well-done!!
Sincerely,
Amy Liu
Marketing Department
amy@blogged.com
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I am not sure what bothers me more – the rating of 7.2 or their apparent excitement at such a mediocre score. They seem to be damning me with faint praise I never asked for. In fact I had never even heard of them before this e mail.
I must admit I find it somewhat difficult to muster up any pride for a measly 7.2. They could have at least given me some warning and allowed me time to study and prepare for the test. I’m sure with a bit of effort I could have stretched my grade to a 7.5 Although, if I stand back and look at their criteria I actually think they were rather lenient on me.
Frequency of updates – Nobody is more surprised than myself that I am still writing anything on this blog. Every post is one more than I ever expect to do.
Relevance of content – relevant to what exactly? Let’s face it, I write about nothing. Nothing is either completely irrelevant or vitally relevant to everything. This is a major philosophical point which I intend to never write extensively about some day.
Site design – Design? Oh dear, I wonder does a signpost to Purgatory qualify as a design concept?
Writing style – Seeing as I don’t have a style I fear this is where I may have lost most points. Although not having a style could very well be a style itself. Hmm, maybe if the whole mechanic thing doesn’t work out for me I could become a philosopher…I clearly can’t become a professional blogger with only a 7.2 rating. I wonder if they do recounts.
Conortje 